The Great Depression 1929. 1920’s Problems Factories making Too Much, Farms growing too much Factories Fire Workers (Don’t need them) Farm Prices fall.

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The Great Depression 1929

1920’s Problems Factories making Too Much, Farms growing too much Factories Fire Workers (Don’t need them) Farm Prices fall (Farmers can’t make $$) Farmers & Factory Workers can’t pay back loans to Banks: DEFAULT!! Banks Close because they have no money: Loans have not been paid back, can’t give people their savings BANKS Have NO $$ PEOPLE LOST SAVINGS & JOBS NO ONE TO HELP!

Stock Market Crash Buying on margin –Buy stock by just paying a small portion of what the stock is worth ex shares at $10= $1000 only pay $300 but still owe $700 -Problem, stock crashes and you lose your money and can’t pay back stock broker - stock broker can’t pay back bank -banks forced to close -depositors in banks lose everything

Stock Market Crash Oct. 29, 1929 –Black Tuesday –Overvalued stocks plummeted as investors panicked and tried to sell

Stock Market Crash Thousands of investors lost everything Banks demanded repayment of loans and stopped loaning money to anyone People couldn’t pay back loans Banks are forced to close

= + People Default on Loans Banks have no money to give people Banks Close People Lose savings

Causes –Overproduction –Bank closing Spark –Stock market crash Results –Unemployment –Life savings lost

The Great Depression Millions lost their savings when banks closed Millions lost their jobs as businesses failed Vast unemployment –As high as 25% – Jobless rate goes from 4 to 12 million People lose their homes People become desperate Loss of faith in capitalism and democracy gave rise to dictatorships in Europe

The Great Depression President Herbert Hoover –Does nothing at first –Says it is the job of the churches and other charities to help the poor, not the government Problem: people too poor to help the churches help the poor »Problem too big for charities to handle –Named poor places after Hoover Hoovervilles, Hoover blankets,

The Dust Bowl 1931 Drought hits the Great Plains Farms just blew away Farmers couldn’t pay the bank; bank took the land Many farmers packed up and went to California to try to find work –Jobs weren’t there either –Okies

The Dust Bowl

The Great Depression Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes President Starts New Deal programs to put people back to work Did not end the depression but helped to ease it Most wealthy businessmen disliked the New Deal –Gave people confidence Built infrastructure (buildings, roads, parks, electricity, artwork) »Created ‘ABC’ programs Ended bank crisis

The Great Depression Connections to today –Government monitoring of and control of the nation’s economy –Stricter controls on banks and the stock market –Continuation of social programs begun by the New Deal Social Security, Welfare, government food distribution, subsidies