What was it? What caused it? What happens because of it? The Great Depression What was it? What caused it? What happens because of it?

American Agriculture as late as the 1940’s! The American Ideal – Prosperous and Conservative - the Backbone of America! Prosperous=growth and wealth

Farmers prevent the foreclosure of a dairy herd in Des Moines, Iowa 1933! Foreclosure: the sale or repossession of a person’s home or property by creditors! Repossession=taking back an object that was either used as collateral or rented or leased in a transaction

A Vagrant – Hobo – Bum – Homeless and Hopeless in the 30’s! He’s using his arm as his pillow Sleeps in his coat and hat to keep warm A Vagrant – Hobo – Bum – Homeless and Hopeless in the 30’s!

L: Take a look at the background, Hoovervilles R: Line for jobs?

New York Hooverville A bank run Wall Street Hoover and FDR in 1932

A soup kitchen – Free Food for the Homeless!

Shantytowns formed in cities across the United States in the 1930s, built by people made homeless by the Great Depression. The areas, like this one in Seattle, were nicknamed Hoovervilles because their inhabitants blamed President Herbert Hoover for their plight.

A Bank Run in 1933

Thousands of farmers and their families left the southern Great Plains region of the United States during the Great Depression, after severe wind erosion earned it the label Dust Bowl. Many of these refugees sought work and a better life in California.

Mom is 18 years old. Does she look 18?

Dirt drifts in the Dust Bowl!

                                                                                     

A jobless man sells apples on the streets of New York City in 1932 A jobless man sells apples on the streets of New York City in 1932. More than 15 million people, nearly one quarter of the United States work force, were unemployed by 1932, three years after the stock market crash that signaled the beginning of the Great Depression.

The Great Depression forced many Americans to go hungry or depend on charities for food, clothing, and other necessities. Here, people wait in a breadline to receive free food.

Sharecroppers evicted from their homes camp along a highway in rural Missouri in the 1930s. The Great Depression left many Americans— urban and rural, black and white— without homes, jobs, and hope.

Many Solutions to the Depression were possible!

America’s Choice: The New Deal FDR’s Plan for economic recovery Experimental in nature Begins the era of big government and the belief that government can and should solve people’s problems!!!

New Deal Programs: TVA, AAA, CCC, SEC, FDIC, FHA, FSLIC, WPA, PWA, REC, NRA…….. With so many alphabetic agencies created by Roosevelt’s New Deal even the President became known as just FDR!

The Beginnings of the Modern Presidency – FDR’s Fireside Chats

Government Jobs Programs CCC WPA PWA

The Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC These workers of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) blast through solid rock to place a telephone-line conduit in Glacier National Park in northwestern Montana. Set up in 1933 as a part of the New Deal program of United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the CCC provided training and jobs for unemployed young men during the Great Depression of the 1930s.

To ease unemployment during the Great Depression, President Franklin D To ease unemployment during the Great Depression, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1935. Called the Work Projects Administration after 1939, the WPA employed 9 million people in various public works projects between 1935 and 1943.

A women’s CCC camp