1. Great Depression
Continues…

2. Government responds

3. President Hoover Public Works Rescuing Banks Bonus Marches
Government financed building projects to create jobs for Americans
The Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
Rescuing Banks
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Make loans to banks, Railroads, and agricultural institutions to help restore wealth in the economy
Bonus Marches
Veterans wanted their bonus that had been promised to them earlier; Congress vetoes the bill.

4. Life Many Americans are living in makeshift villages.
Courts hired bailiffs to remove non-paying tenants.
Newly homeless put up shacks
Shanty towns
Hoovervilles

5. Hoovervilles

8. Escaping
Despite the hard times facing Americans, they found an escape through entertainment.
Entertainment and Hollywood
Movies
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (first animated film)
Shirley Temple – started in 1932 at age 3
Radio
Soap operas (Guiding Light)
Songs
Brother can you spare a dime
Temop