1. Social Impacts of Great Depression
Dorthea Lange’s “Migrant Mother”

2. Hoovervilles
Makeshift shelter of the homeless during the early years of the Great Depression
“Hoover Flags”
“Hoover Blankets”

3.
Dust Bowl
Region in the Great Plains where drought and dust storms took place for much of the 1930s.

6. Poverty and Society *Impact on Health -Poor diet and medical care
*Stresses on Families
-living conditions declined as families moved in together
-men felt like failures
-women worried about feeding families
-working women were accused of taking jobs

8. Poverty and Society (continued)
*Discrimination increases -African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans suffered as white laborers began to demand the low-paying jobs usually filled by minorities

9. Bonus Army WWI vets promised bonus after 1940
In ,000 veterans poured in to Washington, D.C. demanded their bonus
Congress rejected the payment
Many went home, some stayed to protest, camped in “Hoovervilles”

10. Bonus Army Remaining veterans were driven out by the U.S. military
Americans were outraged
Blamed President Hoover

11. Government during the Great DepressionVS

12. President Herbert Hoover
Laissez Faire-did not want to increase government role
Felt it was not governments role to assist the needy
Encouraged churches and charity to aid people in need
Persuaded business leaders to maintain wages
Herbert Hoover

13. Hoover Hoover Dam Realizes it is not enough!
Reconstruction Finance Corporation-gave loans to banks and RRs
Public works projects-gov’t funded construction
Gave jobs!
Hoover Dam

14. The Election of 1932
Herbert Hoover
(Republican)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
(Democrat)
Government should not get involved in the economic and social affairs of its citizens (laissez faire).
Government should not expand the size of the Federal Bureaucracy. This is too expensive.
Voluntary aid should be given by business and the wealthy to relieve the Depression.
Government has an obligation to provide for the welfare and well being of its citizens.
Government should not economize at the expense of starving citizens.
Promised a NEW DEAL for the American people.
The Federal Government needs to get involved and be active to bring us out of Depression.

15. Electoral results-1932 election