Riding the Rails

Quotes from the “lost”

Boxcar Life

The effects on a generation of kids… Consider how the way children were raised during the Great Depression will effect how they act as adults. “Mattress money” “Clean your plate club” "This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny." --Franklin Delano Roosevelt History = Culture

Nearly fifty million Americans were born to the Silent Generation in America from the beginning of 1925 through 1942. Before them were the so-called G.I. Generation and after them the Boom Generation, then the X, and now the Millennial. No generation has so small a reputation as does the Silent. No generation since the American Civil War has been so misunderstood and underestimated. *Generation Chart

Social History Scrapbook Activity: Social History Scrapbook

Families Many families separated to find jobs throughout the country Families unable to pay the mortgage lost their homes and farms About 250,000 young people were homeless in the early years of the Depression. Many became nomads, traveling the highways and railways.

School  Students were too embarrassed to go to school with worn out clothes Few adults could pay taxes: teachers were given a flat rate, classroom sizes were large, schools shut down Many students dropped out to work Started progressive classes – students could choose their subject

History = Culture List characteristics of your generation. How does the history of our time period effect the culture?

Swing - Dancing their troubles away The Movies – The Golden Age of Hollywood begins; 25 cents or less for a whole days entertainment Games – Board games about the rewards of becoming rich

Thank you, Ford Greenfield Village, Michigan

Thank you, Rockefellar Colonial Williamsburg

Martha Graham

New Heroes

A new phrase, "the American way of life," entered the American vernacular.

Faith Returns

Bonnie and Clyde

MURAL ART Create a mural to represent YOUR culture and/or history that has affected you generation.

Do you feel it is important to preserve history in this way?

Works Progress Administration Music Art Sculptor

History = Culture Compare and Contrast THEN (1930) NOW (2014) “Mattress money” Clean Your plat” club Riding the Rails Going to the movies Credit Cards Wi-Fi Movies – genres Drive through List characteristics of the 1930 culture and your generation. How did the history of the time period effect the culture?