1. Life During the Great Depression

2. Video Of Life during the Great Depression

3. It gets worse 1352 banks suspended operations
,000 companies went out of business
million people were unemployed
Bread and soup lines
Fed up to 12,000 people a day
Bailiffs
Evicted tenants that did not pay rent, and emptied out the living space.
Hobos
Homeless people that would sneak past police and ride the railroad

4. The Dust Bowl
Homesteads uprooted the nature grass in areas and left the land dry
Drought brought on very dry conditions
Animals and crops would die off due to the dust

5. Entertainment 60 million people would go to the movies in a week
Hollywood
On the Air
60 million people would go to the movies in a week
Walt Disney introduced Mickey Mouse in 1928
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was released in 1937
First full length animated film
Radio offered information and entertainment without having the leave the house.
Soap Operas
Radio show dramas
Accompanied by soap commercials

6. Literature and Art John Steinbeck William Faulkner Grant Wood
The Grapes of Wrath
Books showed sympathy for the characters and the social injustices of the times
William Faulkner
Used the idea of expressing characters thoughts and feelings before they speak.
Grant Wood
American Gothic
Painting showing what life was like during the 1930s

7. Hoover’s Response to the Depression
Believed that people could help save the economy without government assistance.
Created more public works jobs
Government funded construction jobs to help with unemployment rates
In order to create enough jobs for all the unemployed, the government would have to increase spending
Herbert Hoover refused to increase government spending
Relief
Government funding given directly to poor families
Hoover was against this type of aid