1. DO NOW
After taking office, what were the first acts FDR took to improve the lives of Americans suffering from the Great Depression?

2. 1005: Daily Life in the Great Depression
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3. HW Questions? President FDR The First Hundred Days The New Deal
Bank holidays
The First Hundred Days

4. Life in the Depression 1932 – 24.9% unemployment
73% of Americans unsatisfied w/ gov
Breadlines

7. Breadlines

11. The Dustbowl
“Okies” – Farmers flee west to escape to California

13. The Dustbowl
The Dustbowl

16. Background Information: the Dustbowl
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Background Information: the Dustbowl

17. Population loss in the great plains
KS – 5.4 million
CA – 3.4 million
1940 population:
KS – 2.4 million
CA – 6.9 million

18. Route 66

19. Chicago to California (Santa Monica, just past L.A.)

21. Textbook pp. 635 Document-Based Questions, p. 635
Answer questions 1-2
People in History, p. 636
Answer the question about Margaret Bourke-White
Analyzing Geography, p. 638

22. Assess how identity and geography had an effect on daily life during the Great Depression. Please focus on TWO of the following groups:
Children
Dust Bowl farmers
African Americans
Urban dwellers