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1. mood of the song…? 2. types of occupations/jobs mentioned … ? 3. Who are “they” as referenced in the line….”They used to tell me I was building a dream”? 4. What is the song, asking of its listeners? 5. Do you think people of the 1930s could relate to the message of this song? Why based on the images?
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By 1933, more than 9,000 banks had failed. In 1932, 30,000 companies went out of business. By 1933 12 million people out of 125 million were unemployed
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Less than 10 months after the Great Crash, 6,000 New Yorkers wait in line for jobs at the state employment agency, 135 found them. By 1932, 30 percent of the labor force was looking for work.
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bread lines: place where people could line up to get a free handout of food soup kitchens: areas where private charities set up to give poor people a meal
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Shantytowns: communities made up of shacks put up by newly homeless people on unused or pubic land Called Hoovervilles
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Homeless and unemployed people who wandered the country, walking, hitchhiking, or “riding the rails”. They would sneak past railroad police to slip into open boxcars on freight trains. Camped in hobo jungles near rail yards. Mostly boys and young men. Hundreds of thousands of people went from place to place in this fashion.
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Hobos developed a system of symbols, or a code. Hobos would write this code with chalk or coal to provide directions, information, and warnings to other hobos..
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Women – take on more burden Criticized for “taking men’s jobs” Men – psychological impact of not being able to provide Children – experience “adult” issues Increased anger towards immigrants & minorities Generation about saving & not wasting
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