1. 3/10/15
CO: Explain how the Great Depression affected Americans and describe President Hoover’s response.
Warm-Up:
1. What are the 3 most urgent problems that needed to be solved during the Great Depression?
2. Who is responsible for solving these problems?

2. The Great Depression Begins Ch. 22
Section 1: The Nation’s Sick Economy
Section 2: Hardship and Suffering During the Depression

3. Life During the Depression
Credits: The Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division

8. Dorothea Lange
Woman with small children. California
Woman standing outside wooden shack with two small children and baby. Tulare County, California

9. Dorothea Lange

11. What? So What? Now What?
Conditions Significance Possible
during solutions Depression

12. “Hoovervilles” Some families were forced to live in shanty towns
A grouping of shacks and tents in vacant lots

13. President Hoover Herbert Hoover: We’ll make it! He Did Nothing!
He blamed WWI.
Had never held an elected office before becoming President.

14. Many waited in unemployment lines hoping for a job.

15. People in cities would wait in line for bread to bring to their family.

16. Some families were forced to relocate because they had no money.

17. Hooverville

18. A drought in the South lead to dust storms that destroyed crops.
“The Dust Bowl”

19. What? So What? Now What?
Conditions Significance Possible
during solutions Dust Bowl

20. How did the Great Depression affect farmers and city dwellers?
Similarities? Differences?

21. Life During the Depression
Life in Cities
Slept in parks/sewer pipes
Shantytowns
Soup Kitchens & Bread lines
Life in Rural Areas
Rising debt
Grew their own food
Tenant farming
Lost homes
Lost jobs