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California Standard 3.12

The 1930s Depression - an economy with high unemployment, falling income, failing business, decline in production and sales. The Great Depression Misconception: - Stock market crash was the cause of the Great Depression.

Farming Depression ( ) Cheap land (Banks allowed buyers to put 25% down on an acre that cost $15.00) Over production on wheat (five million acres) The Dust Bowl Heavy Real estate losses in Florida Mass Consumption: Living above means Uneven Distribution of Wealth Uninsured banks Stock Market Crash

To attract investors brokers sold stocks on margin -- the investor paid only part of the selling price in cash and borrowed the rest on margin from the stock broker.margin Brokers borrowed money from the banks to cover the margin.

Complete the table below. Now, ask yourself, why would a broker want to sell stock on margin? Is this risky? Stock Investor’s initial cost Amount Broker Must Borrow Investor 1 10 Shares $7.50 Investor 2 50 Shares $ Investor Shares $75.00 Shares are being sold at $5.00 each. Initially, the investor owes 15%.

March 1928 – Stock prices soared and the number of shares traded rose sharply Stock prices were 400 percent higher Investors became cautious Fewer buyers drove prices down October 1929 “Black Tuesday”Black Tuesday Confidence in stock market failed Investors began selling stocks Margin calls- Banks wanted their money from brokers, and brokers wanted their money from investors. Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Stock Market Crashed! Sad days ahead!

The Dust Bowl itself was restricted to a 97- million-acre piece of high, level land in the southern portion of the Great Plains: Colorado, New Mexico, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.

From the annual rainfall didn’t exceed 12 inches Low wheat prices and yields drove farmers from their lands Dust clouds lifted and settled over millions of acres Farmers and farmhands moved into California as migrant workers Seventy severe dust storms recorded in 1933

Atlantic Monthly, 1930s “Dust in the beds and in the flour bin, on dishes and walls and windows, in hair, eyes, teeth, and throats…” People in Cimarron County remember hanging wet blankets across their windows and laying wet cloths over their faces when they went to sleep. Ceilings collapsed under the weight of the accumulated dust mounds.

Migration - movement of people from place to place for permanent settlement Drought in the plains forced owners off farms The Grapes of Wrath The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men depicts this lifestyle

Migrant farm workers Homeless/farmless due to drought and “Dust Bowl” Poor mid-western farmers despised and abused in California

Factories and Mills closed Manufacturing cut in half Unemployment rose from 3.2 % to 24.9% Banks ran out of money “The Banking Crisis” F.D.R. Mortgages foreclosed Homelessness; poverty “Riches to Rags” For Sale

Living Conditions Malnutrition Doubt Most severe for men, women’s jobs actually rose Children more self-reliant Whites took-over jobs held by minorities

The Government Responds Hoover: self-reliance, restore confidence, grew unpopular as conditions worsened Roosevelt elected in 1932 “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” Fireside chats (Full Transcripts)Full Transcripts New Deal

End of Depression unemployment still 15% Outbreak of WWII - expansion of national defense, stimulating jobs and growthWWII Federal Government expanded its role in social and economic areas Democratic Party - majority of America’s support for next half of century

Born in Salina, CA Novels include: Tortilla Flas Cannery Row The Grapes of Wrath Of Mice and Men (1937) Won Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962

“The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.” -John Steinbeck

Exposition (noun) A statement intended to give information about or an explanation of difficult material.

Questions to think about What are the physical and psychological differences between Lennie and George? What happened in Weed? What did George warn Lennie about? What happened to Lennie’s mouse?

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Di’n’tWish’t Why’n’tTha’s ‘Specially Gi’me An’Fatta the lan’

Three Major Themes Friendship/Loyalty Disappointment Compassion, Loyalty, Dependence, Vulnerability

Reading Quiz Name five things Lennie says or does that proves he is slow. What is Lennie and George’s dream? Why is George upset at the bus driver? Why does Lennie have a pet mouse and why does he kill it?