1. 23.2 Hard Times
OBJECTIVES
Explain how unemployment affected Americans in the 1930s.
Discuss what rural and urban living conditions were like during the Great Depression.
Explain what American did for entertainment in the 1930s.

2. Bellringer
As unemployment rates rise what happens to your chance of obtaining a job? Why?

3. Compare and Share HW
Discuss the main factors that led to the Great Depression
Who were the authors of the Lost Generation?
What did the Red Scare and the revival of the KKK reveal about the 1920s?
What were the Alien and Sedition Acts?

4. Intro- movie

5. “Work is What I Want!” Unemployed Wages dropped
1929 – 1.5 million
1932 – 12 million
Wages dropped
Industrial output halved
Decrease in immigration
Increased Racial discrimination
WHY?

6. Employed Women increases
Apple Sellers

7. Life in the City
Relief from city governments and Private charities like the Red Cross
Mutual Aid Societies

8. Breadlines

9. Shantytowns/Hoovervilles

10. Life on the Farm Could not sell food Crops rotted/cattle slaughtered
Unable to pay debt -- Foreclosures
Migrant Work

11. Family Life
Some Pulled Together
Others were torn apart

12. Debut of Mickey Mouse

13. Popular Culture
Movies
Marx Brothers
Gangster films
Radio

14. Escapism – Wizard of Oz

15. Literature
Magazines and comic books – CHEAP!
Escapism