1. The Great Depression

2. Stock Market Crash October 1929 Black Tuesday
Lots to sell, no one to buy

3. President Herbert Hoover
Believed the people could help themselves
Did very little
The depression only became worse

4. Effects Farms foreclosed Banks had invested too much money
Prices were too low to make a profit
Banks had invested too much money
Couldn’t give people their $ back
Businesses/Factories shut down
33% unemployment rate
Schools shut down
People become homeless
Move to “Hoovervilles” (shantytowns)

5. A Farm Foreclosure

7. Bread Lines

8. Oakies

9. Unemployment Lines

10. “Hoovervilles”

11. The Dust Bowl Severe drought and overuse of land Dust storms
Couldn’t grow any crops

13. If you were the President of the United States during the Great Depression, what would you do to help the country recover from the economic crisis? (Write an intro paragraph with your thesis and three pieces of evidence)