1. Chapter 14-2 Hardship and Suffering During the Depression Since then many Americans are more careful about saving, investing, and borrowing.

3. Cinderella Man clip 1.What value dominates this video clip? 2.Compare how important this value is in the movie and how important you think it is today. Give an example from your life or experiences.

4. FQ: Dec. 18 1.Page 472-73 2.Read “The Depression in the Cities”  Bullet point notes  1 sentence summmary

5. Focus Q: December 21 What do you like about the Holiday Season? What don’t you like about the Holiday Season?

6. What you’ll learn…….Why…………. 1.How the Great Depression impacted men, women, and children. 1.The Great Depression taught us to be cautious about saving, investing, and borrowing. 2.Know anyone who can’t throw anything away? Are they old?

7. Focus Q Read p. 477 “Social and Psychological Effects.” 1.What is the main idea? 2.List 4 supporting details.

8. Fun Facts for 1930s Population: 123,188,000 in 48 states Life Expectancy: Male, 58.1; Female, 61.6 Average salary: $1,368 Unemployment rises to 25% Huey Long proposes a guaranteed annual income of $2,500 Car Sales: 2,787,400 Food Prices: Milk, 14 cents a qt.; Bread, 9 cents a loaf; Round Steak, 42 cents a pound

9. The Depression in Cities 1.From LA to NY, people who lost their jobs were evicted from apartments and homes 2.Slept in parks, sewer pipes —***shantytowns (Hoovervilles) spring up—little towns of shacks just outside cities*** ***Hoovervilles, Hoover Blankets: many blamed peoples’ suffering on Hoover***

12. Seattle, Washington

13. The Depression in Cities 1.Each day the urban poor would scrounge for food in garbage cans, dumps— 2.***soup kitchens and bread lines— free food from public organizations or charities—help feed the homeless***

14. Chicago Soup Kitchen Opened by Al Capone

16. White Angel A wealthy women in San Francisco set up a bread line for the poor who couldn’t afford their own food. Dorthea Lange was compelled to show the "unshaven, hunched-up little man, leaning on a railing with a tin can between his arms, his hands clenched, the line of his mouth bitter, his back turned to those others waiting for a handout." (lange)

17. The Depression in Cities 1.racial tensions rise as whites and minorities compete for scarce jobs 2.unemployment rates for both groups higher than whites 3.1932 AA unemployment 50%, 25% for US overall 4.Latinos—Mexicans, Mex-Americans—targets of hostility ---By late 1930’s hundreds of thousands return to Mexico ---Some leave voluntarily, others deported— many were US citizens

18. Would you rather be poor in the city or in a rural area?

19. The Depression in Rural Areas 1.life in rural areas was hard, but most farmers had one advantage over the urban poor—they could feed their families 2.though farmers who couldn’t pay their mortgages lost their land btwn 1929-32 400 K farms foreclosed on many of these farmers turn to tenant farming, barely get by

20. “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men”—Walker Evans

21. The Dust Bowl Causes: man-made and Mother Nature 1.from TX to ND farmers cut down trees and plow all the soil 2.soil is exhausted from overproduction— when drought and winds come in the early 1930s there is little vegetation to hold the soil down

22. The Dust Bowl ***several million farmers abandon their land and move to the west coast***  many to CA—travel along route 66—CA population up 1 M in 1930s  “Okies” derogatory name for migrants

23. California or Arizona

26. Who’s got a dustbuster?

28. Black Sunday, April 14 th 1935 SW Kansas

29. Colorado, 1937

33. Oklahoma, 1936

36. Migrant Mother Photographed by Dorthea Lange

37. What Families Do to pass the time….. 1.family was a source of strength for many 2.with money tight, people play board games: Monopoly, Scrabble, Sorry!, Chutes and Ladders, The Game of Life 3.listen to the radio—Lone Ranger; the Green Hornet; the Shadow; and Jack Armstrong, all- American boy 4.with survival a daily struggle, many families break apart

38. Men in the Streets 1.men have difficulty coping w/ unemployment—used to working and supporting their family 2.each day they walk the street searching for jobs – after months or years, some men give up looking and/or abandon their families 3.approx 2 M men wandered the country— homeless and looking for work

39. Men in the Streets ***was no direct relief—cash payments or food provided by the federal govt.*** 4. some cities and charities help – NYC paid the most--$2.39/family per week—not enough to feed a family

40. Women Struggle to Survive 1. women work hard to help families to survive – can food, sew clothes, carefully manage budgets – 2 lbs. of burger for 25 cents—split it—extra penny? 2. many women work outside the home—some are targets of enormous resentment – some think married shouldn’t work—men should work – some cities refuse to hire married women school teachers 3. many assume women had an easier time than men during the depression—rarely seen in soup or bread lines – not so, many quietly starve to death b/c they are too ashamed to complain

41. Children Suffer Hardships 1.poor diets, malnutrition cause health problems— rickets (vitamin D—defective bone growth), pellagra (vitamin B—skin eruptions, digestive and nervous disturbances, mental deterioration) 2. Schools—tax revenues are down, so.... School year shortened in some places….wooohooo! By 1933, 2600 schools shut down—kids often went to work—sweatshops 3. some hopped freight trains in search of jobs, adventure, escape from poverty. “If I leave my mother, it will be one less mouth to feed.” – Some jailed or beaten by “bulls”(RR cops) – 1929 to 1939—24,647 trespassers killed, 27,171 injured on RR property

42. Other Famous Photographs of Dorothea Lange

43. Social and Psychological Effects 1.some lose the will to live—btwn 1928-32 suicide rate up 30% 2.mental hospital admissions up 3 x’s 3.adults stop going to the dentist, doctor— long term consequences 4.young people give up dreams of college, get married later, having large families, or having kids at all 5.financial success becomes a lifelong goal for some

44. Social and Psychological Effects 1.people showed great kindness to family and strangers  food, clothing, shelter 2.habits of thriftiness and saving are developed—these habits shape a generation 3.Grapes of Wrath—read last 2 pages— report to class

45. Creative side Make a graphic organizer that shows the suffering of men, women, and children during the Great Depression. Suffering during the Great Depression Men 1 2 3 Women 1 2 3 Children 1 2 3