1. Effects of the Great Depression The Human Effect

2. City Laborers Many lost jobs Became homeless Lived in Poverty “Hoovervilles”

4. Sit-Down Strikes

5. Unemployment

6. Farmers Couldn’t afford farms Dust Bowl Forced to migrate elsewhere

7. Dust Bowl

8. Farm Industry Declines

9. Women First to lose their jobs Couldn’t find work Left to fend for the family

10. Women/Families

11. Children Horrid health conditions Lack of food Could not go to school Couldn’t be supported by parents

12. Children’s Soup Line

13. Children

14. Men Psychologically damaged; felt like failures Abandoned families

15. Men

16. Bank Failure

17. Racial Minorities Discrimination increased Work harder to find Hispanics and Asian Americans deported Lynchings increase in South

18. Great Depression Statistics National Income  1929: $81 Billion  1932: $41 Billion Business Failures  1929-1932: 85,000 Bank Failures  1929-1932: 9,000 failures & 9,000,000 accounts wiped out Per Capita Income  1929: $6811932: $495

19. What would you do to cure the Great Depression?

20. Americans Pull Together Farmers Stick Together  Penny Auctions Young People  Ride the Rails Political Solutions  Communism  Socialism

21. Signs of Change Prohibition Repealed (1933)  21st Amendment  Failed social experiment The Empire State Building (1930)  $41 million costs (half)  Symbol of hope

22. Herbert Hoover

23. Hoover’s Limited Strategy Confidence is Key Voluntary Action  Asked wages stay up  Volunteering Fails Government Acts  Agricultural Marketing Act Fails to fix prices  Hoover Dam

24. Hoover’s Limited Strategy Government Acts  Hawley-Smoot Tariff Highest import tax in history Fails!!  Reconstruction Finance Corporation Gov’t credit to businesses

25. Hoover’s Unpopularity State and Local governments should handle relief Appeared Cold hearted Bonus Army  20,000 WWI vets march on Washington  Wanted pension bonus early  Used force to drive marchers out of Wash.

26. Election of 1932 Republican  Herbert Hoover Democrat  Franklin D. Roosevelt NY Governor  Promised a “New Deal” for America Results  472-59 FDR Wins  “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”