2. 1. mood of the song…? 2. types of occupations/jobs mentioned … ? 3. Who are “they” as referenced in the line….”They used to tell me I was building a dream”? 4. What is the song, asking of its listeners? 5. Do you think people of the 1930s could relate to the message of this song? Why based on the images?

3.  By 1933, more than 9,000 banks had failed.  In 1932, 30,000 companies went out of business.  By 1933 12 million people out of 125 million were unemployed

4.  Less than 10 months after the Great Crash, 6,000 New Yorkers wait in line for jobs at the state employment agency, 135 found them.  By 1932, 30 percent of the labor force was looking for work.

5.  bread lines: place where people could line up to get a free handout of food  soup kitchens: areas where private charities set up to give poor people a meal

9. Shantytowns:  communities made up of shacks put up by newly homeless people on unused or pubic land  Called Hoovervilles

12.  Homeless and unemployed people who wandered the country, walking, hitchhiking, or “riding the rails”.  They would sneak past railroad police to slip into open boxcars on freight trains. Camped in hobo jungles near rail yards.  Mostly boys and young men. Hundreds of thousands of people went from place to place in this fashion.

14.  Hobos developed a system of symbols, or a code. Hobos would write this code with chalk or coal to provide directions, information, and warnings to other hobos..

16.  Women – take on more burden  Criticized for “taking men’s jobs”  Men – psychological impact of not being able to provide  Children – experience “adult” issues  Increased anger towards immigrants & minorities  Generation about saving & not wasting