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1 Hardship and Suffering During the Great Depression

2 The Depression hits the Rural Areas

3 Sam Nichols, tenant farmer, Boone County, Arkansas, October 1935 The Tenant Farmer

4 Between 1929-1932 400,000 farms were lost to forclosure

5 “ Dust ” hits the Great Plains www.buffalocommons.org

6 Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado became known as the Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl

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9 Dust Bowl Refugees memory.loc.gov/.../ 8b27000/8b27300/8b27316r.jpg

10 A dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas, on April 18, 1935.

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13 The Depression in the Cities

14 Shantytowns: (Hoovervilles) little towns consisting of shacks

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17 Soup Kitchens and Bread lines: Offering free or low-cost food and bread

18 Hoover’s Approach “Every time we find a solutions outside of government, we have not only strengthened character but have preserved our sense of real government” Reactions?

19 Hoover’s Presidency: Great Depression Hoover took office 1928 Stock market Crash 1929 1929- 600 banks closed 1933- 11,000 out of 25,000 banks failed Gov’t did not insure peoples account Great Depression (1929-1940) 1929-1933 GDP- 104 to 59 billion 90,000 businesses bankrupt Unemployment 1929- 3% (1.6 million) 1933-25% (13 million)

20 CF 130044. Petition of Unemployed for Relief, February 13, 1931. Comptroller Files, 1802-01, Seattle Municipal Archives. Unemployed "Demonstrate flyer,"

21 Does Hoover Need to take Action? CF 130044. Petition of Unemployed for Relief, February 13, 1931. Comptroller Files, 1802-01, Seattle Municipal Archives. Unemployed "Demonstrate flyer,"

22 www.loc.gov/.../treasures/ images/at0058f2bs.jpg

23 cla.calpoly.edu/~lcall/ 204/5-7/bonus_army.JPG

24 www.loc.gov/.../treasures/ images/at0058f2bs.jpg

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26 "Bonus Army" WWI Veterans protesting unpaid pensions Copyright 1997 State Historical Society of Wisconsin

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