1. Alan Brinkley, AMERICAN HISTORY 13/e Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression

2. The Coming of the Great Depression The Coming of the Great Depression –The Great Crash  Stock Market Boom  “Black Tuesday” Wall Street (Licensed for Use) 2 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

3. Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The Coming of the Great Depression The Coming of the Great Depression –Causes of the Depression  Lack of Diversification  Maldistribution of Wealth  Declining Exports  Unstable International Debt Structure 3 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

4. Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The Coming of the Great Depression The Coming of the Great Depression –Progress of the Depression  Banking Collapse  Severe Contraction The Unemployed, 1930 (Library of Congress) 4 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

5. Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The American People in Hard Times The American People in Hard Times –Unemployment and Relief  Belief in Personal Responsibility  “Dust Bowl”  “Okies” 5 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. A Dust Storm (CORBIS / Royalty Free)

6. Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The American People in Hard Times The American People in Hard Times –African Americans and the Depression  African American Suffering  Scottsboro Case  NAACP’s Changing Role –Mexican Americans in Depression America  Discrimination Against Hispanics –Asian Americans in Hard Times  Japanese Americans Citizens League 6 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

7. Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The American People in Hard Times The American People in Hard Times –Women and the Workplace in the Great Depression  Popular Disapproval of Women’s Employment  Increased Female Employment –Depression Families  Retreat from Consumerism 7 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Women in the Paid Workforce, 1900-1940

8. Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The Depression and American Culture The Depression and American Culture –Depression Values  Persistence of the “Success Ethic”  Self-Blame –Artists and Intellectuals in the Great Depression  “Discovery” of Rural Poverty  Depression Literature 8 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Farm Family in Indiana (Microsoft Encarta)

9. Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The Depression and American Culture The Depression and American Culture –Radio  Escapist Programming  Radio’s Impact Depression Era Radio (Library of Congress) 9 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

10. Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The Depression and American Culture The Depression and American Culture –Movies in the New Era  Continuing Popularity of Movies  Walt Disney –Popular Literature and Journalism  Life Magazine 10 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

11. Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The Depression and American Culture The Depression and American Culture –The Popular Front and the Left  Spanish Civil War  Southern Tenant Farmers Union  The Left’s Newfound Respectability  The Grapes of Wrath “Communism is twentieth century Americanism”—Earl Browder 11 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

12. Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover –The Hoover Program  Failure of Voluntarism  Agricultural Marketing Act  Hoover’s Declining Popularity  Reconstruction Finance Corporation Herbert Hoover (Library of Congress) 12 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

13. Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover –Popular Protest  Farmers’ Holiday Association  Demise of the Bonus Army 13 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Hooverville. Portland, Oregon (Library of Congress)

14. Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover –The Election of 1932  FDR Nominated  1932 Election The Election of 1932 14 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

15. Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The Changing of the Guard, New Yorker (FDR Library) 15 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

16. Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover –The “Interregnum”  Banking Crisis Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Library of Congress) 16 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

17. America in the World: The Global Depression Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression 17 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

18. Where Historians Disagree: Causes of the Great Depression Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The Unemployed, 1930 (Library of Congress) 18 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

19. Patterns of Popular Culture: The Films of Frank Capra Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression 19 © 2010, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.