What is your method of escape What do you turn to when frustrated scared upset or overwhelmed Surviving the Great Depression Making the Best of a Very Bad Situation Meeting Basic Needs During the Depression ID: 404743
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Bell Ringer
What is your method of escape? What do you turn to when frustrated, scared, upset, or overwhelmed?Slide2
Surviving the Great Depression
Making the Best of a Very Bad SituationSlide3
Meeting Basic Needs During the Depression
Give us this day our daily breadSlide4
Blame it on Hoover
President Hoover attempted to fix the problems of unemployment and poverty, but it was too little, too late.
Thousands of people lost their homes, and took to building shacks out of scrap material in public spaces
Americans blamed the President for the downfall and renamed their makeshift homes after him -
HoovervillesSlide5
Hoover Wagon
Hoover Shack
HoovervilleSlide6
A man selling apples
Dresses made from old flour sacksSlide7
Segregated bread linesSlide8Slide9
America’s Homeless
Many of America
’
s homeless began to wander the country in search of work, walking, hitchhiking, or
“
riding the rails
”
Known as hobos, they camped in
“
hobo jungles
” near rail yards, and survived through a secret language that they inscribed on light poles, fence posts, walls, and in dirt patches.250,000 of these hobos were teenage boysSlide10
There were hundreds of symbols, as well as a code of ethics –
When in town, always respect the local law and officials, and try to be a gentleman at all times.
Always try to find work, even if temporary, and always seek out jobs nobody wants. When no employment is available, make your own work by using your added talents at crafts.
Respect handouts, do not wear them out, another hobo will be coming along who will need them as bad, if not worse than you.
When traveling, ride your train respectfully, take no personal chances, cause no problems with the operating crew or host railroad, act like an extra crew member.
Help all runaway children, and try to induce them to return home.
Help your fellow hobos whenever and wherever needed, you may need their help someday.Slide11
Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?
They used to tell me I was building a dream, and so I followed the mob, When there was earth to plow, or guns to bear, I was always there right on the job. They used to tell me I was building a dream, with peace and glory ahead, Why should I be standing in line, just waiting for bread?
Once I built a railroad, I made it run, made it race against time. Once I built a railroad; now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime? Once I built a tower, up to the sun, brick, and rivet, and lime; Once I built a tower, now it's done. Brother, can you spare a dime?
Once in khaki suits, gee we looked swell, Full of that Yankee Doodly Dum, Half a million boots went slogging through Hell, And I was the kid with the drum!
Say, don't you remember, they called me Al; it was Al all the time. Why don't you remember, I'm your pal? Buddy, can you spare a dime?
Once in khaki suits, gee we looked swell, Full of that Yankee Doodly Dum, Half a million boots went slogging through Hell, And I was the kid with the drum!
Say, don't you remember, they called me Al; it was Al all the time. Say, don't you remember, I'm your pal? Buddy, can you spare a dime?Slide12
DistractionsSlide13
Newsmakers
Although the economic crisis dominated the news during the 1930s, other events and people drew the attention of the masses, especially those that drew their attention away from their own financial troubles.
Gandhi
’
s Salt March
Pluto discovered
Completion of the Empire
State Building
Lindbergh baby kidnapping
Scientists split the atom
Berlin Olympics
Spanish Civil WarAmelia Earhart’
s fateful flightThe Hindenburg explosionSlide14
Newsmakers
Organized Crime
Bonnie and ClydeSlide15
Art and Literature
AMERICAN GOTHIC
JOHN STEINBECKSlide16
GamesSlide17
Music
Western music gained popularity, as it was a familiar and comforting sound.
The Grand Ole
’
Opry became one of the most popular radio programs on the air, with performances by musicians and comedians, and short skits.
Gene Autry
Roy Rogers
Jimmie RogersSlide18
Music
Jazz and Blues music continued in popularity from the 1920s, but the style began to shift, from Dixieland Jazz to Swing.
Billie Holiday
Ella Fitzgerald
Benny Goodman
Glenn Miller
Count Basie
Duke Ellington
Louis ArmstrongSlide19
Dance
Popular dances: The Foxtrot, Swing (Lindy Hop, Balboa, East/West Coast Swing), and Jitterbug
Dance Marathons were incredibly popular
Pairs were required to remain in motion for 45 minutes each hour, around the clock.
Contestants could win hundreds of dollars by outlasting the other couples
A 25-cent admission price entitled audience members to watch as long as they pleased Slide20
SportsSlide21
SportsSlide22
Radio
The radio was the most popular form of entertainment, with news, sports, music, and theatrical programs.
Cheap
Entertaining
Family-oriented
Popular programs: Grand Ole
’
Opry, Red Ryder, Little Orphan Annie,
“
Soap Operas,
”
Marx Bros., Abbot and Costello, the Lone Ranger, Dick Tracy, George Burns and Gracie AllenSlide23
Radio
Orson Welles produced a radio broadcast of H.G. Wells
’
novel
The War of the Worlds
for Halloween in 1938.
The broadcast was presented in the form of a series of
“
news bulletins
”
about an alien invasion on Earth and the near destruction of mankind.
Many Americans believed the broadcast to be real, and panicked over the supposed invasion.Slide24
Movies
The movies were a great escape for Americans during the Depression.
Cheap (15¢ – 25¢) and air-conditioned
Not just a movie: double-feature, newsreels, cartoons, live orchestras, comic emceesSlide25