1. Alan Brinkley, American History 14/e
Chapter 23: The Great Depression

2. Highlights The Coming of the Great Depression
The American People in Hard Times
The Depression and American Culture
The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover
© 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

3. The Coming of the Great Depression
The Great Crash
Stock Market Boom
“Black Tuesday”
Wall Street (Licensed for Use)
© 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

4. The Coming of the Great Depression
Causes of the Depression
Lack of Diversification
Maldistribution of Wealth
Declining Exports
Unstable International Debt Structure
© 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

5. The Coming of the Great Depression
Progress of the Depression
Banking Collapse
Severe Contraction
The unemployed, (Library of Congress)
© 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

6. The American People in Hard Times
Unemployment and Relief
Belief in Personal Responsibility
“Dust Bowl”
“Okies”
A dust storm (CORBIS/Royalty Free)
© 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

7. The American People in Hard Times
African Americans and the Depression
African American Suffering
Scottsboro Case
NAACP’s Changing Role
© 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

8. The American People in Hard Times
Mexican Americans in Depression America
Discrimination against Hispanics
Asian Americans in Hard Times
Japanese American Citizens League
© 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

9. The American People in Hard Times
Women and the Workplace in the Great Depression
Popular Disapproval of Women’s Employment
Increased Female Employment
Depression Families
Retreat from Consumerism
© 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

10. The American People in Hard Times
Women in the Paid Workforce,
© 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

11. The Depression and American Culture
Depression Values
Persistence of the “Success Ethic”
Self-Blame
© 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

12. The Depression and American Culture
Artists and Intellectuals in the Great Depression
“Discovery” of Rural Poverty
Depression Literature
Farm family in Indiana (Microsoft Encarta)
© 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

13. The Depression and American Culture
Radio
Escapist Programming
Radio’s Impact
Depression-era radio (Library of Congress)
© 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

14. The Depression and American Culture
Movies in the New Era
Continuing Popularity of Movies
Walt Disney
Popular Literature and Journalism
Life Magazine
© 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

15. The Depression and American Culture
The Popular Front and the Left
Spanish Civil War
Southern Tenant Farmers Union
The Left’s Newfound Respectability
The Grapes of Wrath
© 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

16. The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover
The Hoover Program
Failure of Voluntarism
Agricultural Marketing Act
Hoover’s Declining Popularity
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Herbert Hoover (Library of Congress)
© 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

17. The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover
Popular Protest
Farmers’ Holiday Association
Demise of the Bonus Army
Hooverville; Portland, Oregon (Library of Congress)
© 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

18. The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover
The Election of 1932
FDR Nominated
1932 Election
The “Interregnum”
Banking Crisis
Election of 1932
© 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

19. The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Library of Congress)
The Changing of the Guard, The New Yorker (FDR Library)
© 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.