1. Lesson 2: Life During the Depression
The Great Depression
Lesson 2:
Life During the Depression

2. Struggling to Get By 1933- ¼ of the work force was unemployed
The jobless went hungry
Soup kitchens, bread lines
People who couldn’t pay mortgages were evicted
Forcably removed from homes
Americans began to build shantytowns (towns full of shacks) on unused or public lands called Hoovervilles
The homeless hitchhiked to seek employment
Hoboes began “riding the rails,” traveling cross country by rail road cars
Immigrants returned to their native countries
Fed Govn’t set up reparation drives to send poor immigrants back to their home countries

3. Bread Lines and Unemployment Lines

4. The Dust Bowl Crop prices dropped so farmer planted more wheat
Drought struck the Great Plains- no crops
Winds blew the dust for hundreds of miles
Dust buried crops and livestock
Dust filled the lungs of people and animals, killing them
During the 1930s on average 50 dust storms hit a year
Mortgaged homes were foreclosed and turned over to the bank, many farmers in Oklahoma became known as “Okies” moved west to CA to seek a better life

7. Arts and Entertainment

8. Brother can you spare a dime?