DO NOW After taking office, what were the first acts FDR took to improve the lives of Americans suffering from the Great Depression?
1005: Daily Life in the Great Depression 4/5
HW Questions? President FDR The First Hundred Days The New Deal Bank holidays The First Hundred Days
Life in the Depression 1932 – 24.9% unemployment 73% of Americans unsatisfied w/ gov Breadlines
Breadlines
The Dustbowl “Okies” – Farmers flee west to escape to California
The Dustbowl The Dustbowl
Background Information: the Dustbowl Video Background Information: the Dustbowl
Population loss in the great plains KS – 5.4 million CA – 3.4 million 1940 population: KS – 2.4 million CA – 6.9 million
Route 66
Chicago to California (Santa Monica, just past L.A.)
Textbook pp. 635 Document-Based Questions, p. 635 Answer questions 1-2 People in History, p. 636 Answer the question about Margaret Bourke-White Analyzing Geography, p. 638
Assess how identity and geography had an effect on daily life during the Great Depression. Please focus on TWO of the following groups: Children Dust Bowl farmers African Americans Urban dwellers