Unit #8The Great Depression of

1930s

LESSON #8:3The Depression Worsens

p. 237-238

LESSON #3 – The Depression Worsens(3/2)

VOCABULARY 8:3

Soup kitchens (237)

Bread lines

Shantytowns

Hoovervilles

Hoboes

Dust Bowl (238)

Okies

• ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

7. What did the formation of Hoovervilles say about America at that time?

8. How did Dust Bowl form, and what was the effect?

LESSON #2 – The Crash of the Economy(2/29)

VOCABULARY 8:2

Buying on Installment Plan (235)

Hawley-Smoot Tariff (236)

Federal Reserve Board

Unemployment (From notes)

Bread Line

Soup Kitchen

• ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS

5. What describes the Great Depression?

6. The stock market crash caused a loss of investments. How did this lead to the Great Depression?

The Depression Worsens

Intro thoughts

Describe the way people lived at the onset of the industrial Revolution.

Could that ever happen again?

Main Notes

The Depression Worsens

Struggling to get by• In 1929, 500 banks had failed• In 1930 – more than 1,300 failed• In 1932 – 30,000 companies went bankrupt• by 1933 –25% of America was unemployed• The jobless had no $$ for food• They often turned to government handouts

– Stood in bread lines– Lined up for soup kitchens

• People who could not pay rent, were evicted• Homelessness became normal• They built small shantytowns, called them

HOOVERVILES• Why do you think they called them that

name?

Examples of Hoovervilles

If this man sold his car for $100, he took a $2,795 loss.

The 1929 Chrysler Imperial Roadster shown in this photo cost around $2,895 new.

During the Great Depression, few people had extra money to spend on such a luxury item. This might explain why the man thought he could only get $100 for the car.

This is an example of the desperation brought on by the stock market crash.

The 1929 Chrysler Imperial Roadster was named Imperial because it was Chrysler's most expensive car in production at that time.

Can you imagine the overall financial loss a person would have to take in order to be willing to sell a car at such a loss?

1929: Unemployment hit 1,550,000 – 3.5% of population

1930: Unemployment hit 4,500,000 – 8.5% of population

1931: Unemployment hit 8,000,000 – 16% of population

1933: Unemployment hit 12,500,000 – 25% of pop

1932: Unemployment hit 12,000,000 – 23.5% of pop

1934: 11,500,000 – 21.5% of pop

1935: 10,500,000 – 20% of pop

1936: 9,000,000 – 17% of pop

1937: 7,500,000 – 14% of pop

1938: 10,500,000 – 19.5% of pop

1939: 12,500,000 – 25% of pop

GRAPH THESE NUMBERS

Put a dot on the graph, and connect all dots as you go…

What’s happening? What happened in 1933?

Uh oh, what is the new trend by 1939?

Migration of Americans• Lots of Americans evicted from their homes

moved away to find a better life• Some went east, some went south, most went

west, to California• By the end of the depression, more than

2,500,000 Americans moved away• Some just moved from place to place, hitching

rides on freight trains illegally• They became known as HOBOES• Lot of immigrants went

back to their home countries• The US government set

up a program to help them!• Any immigrant found guilty of a crime would

likely be deported

The Dust Bowl• Farmers had worked the Mid West

decades – irrigation was key• They over farmed the land for years• A drought in 1930 hit, just as many

farmers stopped farming• Then, something strange happened…• The fine “top soil” that had been dark

and rich was lifted by the winds; the movement caused static

• Clinging to that first layer, more dust was attracted to the fine mist of dust, and grew and grew

• Soon, a giant dust clouds 10,000 feet high blew across the nation

• Millions of # of dirt moved thousands of miles… all the way to the East coast

Photos of Dust Storms of 1930s

The Dust Bowl• Farmers had irrigated the Mid West

decades• When evicted, the farms when dry• A drought in 1930 added to the dry• Then, something strange happened…• The fine “top soil” that had been dark

and rich was lifted by the winds; the movement caused static

• Clinging to that first layer, more dust was attracted to the fine mist of dust, and grew and grew

• Soon, a giant dust clouds 10,000 feet high blew across the nation

• Millions of # of dirt moved thousands of miles… all the way to the East coast

B&W 3m

Hist. Channel - 3m

Reaction to the Dust Bowl• The sky went black• Animals and people caught outside

could be killed from suffocation• As many as 50 storms hit a year in the

1930s• Others died a slower death called dust

bowl pneumonia• People in New York found themselves

covered with dust from Oklahoma• Even ships 300 miles out to sea in the

Atlantic got covered in dust from Oklahoma

• Many moved out west to escape• Californians called the “OKIES,” since

many had moved from Oklahoma

Okies on the move