Vocab List 21 -Bailiffs -Hobo -Soap Opera -Public Works -Foreclose -Relief

Life during the Great Depression

I. Background How bad was it? 25% 1 in 4 Unemployed 30,000 Companies went out of business 2,000 Banks suspended operations Many starved, had to find food in garbage President Herbert Hoover Elected in 1928 Counseled by all economists to do nothing (Laissez-Faire) Did very little compared to FDR (next lectures) People lived in shanty towns and they called them hoovervilles-- blaming him for their horrible life

II. Struggling to Get By A) Jobless would go hungry Stood outside Breadlines / soup kitchens B) Could not afford rent/mortgage Would not move out Bailiffs had to evict them C) Many young men became hoboes (AKA Train Kids) D) Many immigrants returned to native countries Forced to return by government Deported many E) Severe Drought in middle america creates dust bowl- dry land led to dust storms. Many died of suffocation.

Great Depression History Channel

III. Arts & Entertainment Movies still boomed (escaped worries) Walt Disney produces Snow White 1937 MGM: Wizard of Oz 1939 Gone with the Wind Soap Operas became a thing Photography booms - LIFE magazine starts from publisher TIME Grant Wood pains American Gothic

Trailer to Wizard of OZ

IV. Hoover’s Hopes Although counseled by all his economists to do nothing he still did some things (Not enough!) 1) Met with industrialists (rich dudes) to maintain wage rates 2) Raised Taxes for the rich 3) Pushed for private charity (from rich dudes) under the: Presidents Organization for Unemployment Relief = POUR.. Raised $60m but not enough

V. ‘Merica gets Angry A) Hunger Marches - Constant looting and protests over hunger. 1,200 marched on DC in 1932. B) Farm Foreclosures - Farms, with low profits and high debts, lose their farms. Begin burning all crops (people are starving) to raise prices. C) Bonus Army - WW1 Veterans promised a bonus in 1945. Demanded an early payment of bonus to survive. 15,000 veterans marched into DC 700 (current) Soldiers begin attacking unarmed veterans, killing two. Disgraces Hoover’s presidency.

Video Bonus Army If there is time

V. In Sum... Herbert Hoover had no chance at re-election Franklin Delanor Roosevelt (FDR) - will make the New Deal his campaign slogan Relief, Recovery and Reform on the way!!