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Page 1: Effects of the Great Depression. 24% unemployment rate Cities were harder hit— some cities 50-80% unemployment Hoovervilles-shantytowns on the outskirts

Effects of the Great Depression

Page 2: Effects of the Great Depression. 24% unemployment rate Cities were harder hit— some cities 50-80% unemployment Hoovervilles-shantytowns on the outskirts

• 24% unemployment rate

• Cities were harder hit—some cities 50-80% unemployment

• Hoovervilles-shantytowns on the outskirts of cities

Page 3: Effects of the Great Depression. 24% unemployment rate Cities were harder hit— some cities 50-80% unemployment Hoovervilles-shantytowns on the outskirts
Page 4: Effects of the Great Depression. 24% unemployment rate Cities were harder hit— some cities 50-80% unemployment Hoovervilles-shantytowns on the outskirts
Page 5: Effects of the Great Depression. 24% unemployment rate Cities were harder hit— some cities 50-80% unemployment Hoovervilles-shantytowns on the outskirts
Page 6: Effects of the Great Depression. 24% unemployment rate Cities were harder hit— some cities 50-80% unemployment Hoovervilles-shantytowns on the outskirts

• Soup Kitchens & Breadlines—provided some food

Page 7: Effects of the Great Depression. 24% unemployment rate Cities were harder hit— some cities 50-80% unemployment Hoovervilles-shantytowns on the outskirts

• Men demoralized—could not support their families

• 30% increase in suicide rate• Children sent from home• Men abandoned families• Malnutrition increases• Schools closed or school year

shortened

Page 8: Effects of the Great Depression. 24% unemployment rate Cities were harder hit— some cities 50-80% unemployment Hoovervilles-shantytowns on the outskirts

• Rural Areas—one advantage—could grow food or hunt.

• Used to poverty

• Dust Bowl—1933-1936—environmental disaster on Great Plains

Page 9: Effects of the Great Depression. 24% unemployment rate Cities were harder hit— some cities 50-80% unemployment Hoovervilles-shantytowns on the outskirts

• Poor farming practices---overusing soil, plow deeper

• Drought

• Huge windstorms carried the topsoil– hundreds of miles

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• Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas hardest hit

• Thousands left & headed for California

• Called Okies

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