US History Spiconardi Hard Times for Americans Hardships Americans Faced Unemployment Unemployment rate sky rockets from 3 in 1929 to 25 in 1933 Hard Times for Americans Family Life Many fathers left families to find work elsewhere ID: 458311
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The Great Depression: Life During the Depression and The Government’s Response
US History: SpiconardiSlide2Slide3
Hard Times for Americans
Hardships Americans Faced
Unemployment
Unemployment rate sky rockets from 3% in 1929 to 25% in 1933Slide4
Hard Times for Americans
Family Life
Many fathers left families to find work elsewhere
Children couldn’t go to
school
Why?
School boards didn’t have money to keep schools open
Marriage rate decreasesFewer children per familyWhy? Parents couldn’t afford to feed large familiesSlide5
Hard Times for Americans
Shanty towns
Many Americans lost their homes so they built shanty towns
Shanty towns
slum settlements constructed by impoverished people out of scrap materials
The shanty towns were referred to as
Hoovervilles
President Herbert Hoover was blamed for not helping suffering Americans enoughSlide6
Hooverville
in SeattleSlide7
Hard Times for Americans
Deterioration of Health
Many Americans suffered from malnutrition
Undernourished people fall more easily to disease
Americans on line at soup kitchenSlide8
Americans making a back run to withdraw their savingsSlide9
Man in Manhattan lying down on a pierSlide10
“Migrant Mother” – mother of seven children struggling through the Great Depression in CaliforniaSlide11
Men line up for free bread from the Grocers’ Association.Slide12
A man trying to sell his car after losing his money in the Stock MarketSlide13
An unemployed man tries to sell apples on the street to earn moneySlide14
Why are there so many apples that have been eaten on the ground?
What does the cartoon show about life during the Great Depression?Slide15
Explain why this locality’s chamber of commerce posted this billSlide16
Explain the juxtaposition between the advertisement and the food lineSlide17
Men in Chicago advertising themselves for a job. How do they market themselves?Slide18
Unemployment march in New JerseySlide19
Children picketing a construction companySlide20
Homework
Choose one of the following three photos. Place yourself in that photograph and either write a diary entry or create a back story.
1-page
Typed or neatly written in blue or black ink
Proper heading (no writing in the top margin)Slide21Slide22Slide23