FDR in a dress … =
Franklin Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt - Franklin Roosevelt’s political philosophy … - Roosevelt’s Optimism … - Fireside Chats (first chat, March, 1933) …
Franklin Roosevelt - “First 100 Days” … - “New Deal” speech at 1932 Democratic National Convention … - “First 100 Days” …
New Deal Goals
Family Life in the Great Depression Fertility Rates (per 100,000 women aged 15-44) - 1928: 93.8 - 1929: 89.3 - 1930: 89.2 - 1931: 84.6 - 1932: 81.7 - 1933: 76.3 - 1934: 78.5 - 1935: 77.2 - 1936: 75.8 - 1937: 77.1 - 1938: 79.1 - 1939: 77.6 - 1940: 79.9 - 1941: 83.4 - 1942: 91.5 - 1943: 94.3
Family Life in the Great Depression Average divorce rate, (per 1,000 people) - 1920-1929: 1.6 - 1930-33: 1.4 - 1934-39: 1.8 - 1940-46: 2.8 - 1947-64: 2.5
Rural America - Living During the Great Depression - 1930, 25% of population were farmers, living on six million farms … - Farm Security Administration (1935) … - Loans to tenant families to purchase farms … - 250,000 photographs: “I want to see the whites of their eyes.”
Farm Security Administration Go to the homework calendar …
Farm Security Administration Go to the homework calendar …
Part Two Station One “Migrant Mother”
Station Two “Lunch atop a Skyscraper”
Station Three “Dust Bowl Images”
Station Four “Letters to the President”