1. Effects of the Great Depression

2. 24% unemployment rate Cities were harder hit— some cities 50-80% unemployment Hoovervilles-shantytowns on the outskirts of cities

6. Soup Kitchens & Breadlines— provided some food

7. Men demoralized—could not support their families 30% increase in suicide rate Children sent from home Men abandoned families Malnutrition increases Schools closed or school year shortened

8. Rural Areas—one advantage—could grow food or hunt. Used to poverty Dust Bowl—1933-1936— environmental disaster on Great Plains

9. Poor farming practices--- overusing soil, plow deeper Drought Huge windstorms carried the topsoil– hundreds of miles

16. Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas hardest hit Thousands left & headed for California Called Okies