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Life During the Great Depression

Chapter 11 Section 3

Rebuilding America

Mount Rushmore Faces of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and

Roosevelt (Teddy) Empire State Building

Al Smith’s brain childBuilt in ‘31 tallest building in the world until

1972 Golden Great Bridge

Regulations

Mount Rushmore

Empire State Building

Golden Gate Bridge

Women to the Workforce

Families surviving off women's incomeCheap labor

Francs Perkins First women to serve in

presidential cabinet Sewing, baking,

canning of own vegetables

Dust Bowl Great Plains Area,

Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado

Cleared land for wheat farming

Drought hits in 1931, winds blow soil http://www.youtube.co

m/watch?v=x2CiDaUYr90

African-Americans and the Depression Negatives Positives

50% unemployment in the south Lost farmers due to pricing, Lost jobs due to low

unemployment Migrate to North

Little to no improvement on lifestyle

Unemployment is just

under 50%

NAACP helps pass law to end discrimination in labor unions 500,000 African Americans

join FDR’s Black Cabinet

African American work closely with the president ○ Ralph Bunche ○ Mary Bethune

Later starts Bethune-Cookman College

Fascism Government by

dictatorship Individuals are

second to the nation Blames Jews,

Communist and liberals for problems of ones country Popular in Italy and

Germany

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