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Life in the New Deal Era
Section 3 Chapter 25
America's Gross National Product 1928 to 1939:
1928 $100 billion
1933 $55 billion
1939 $85 billion
Amount of consumer goods brought 1928 to 1939:
1928 $80 billion
1933 $45 billion
1939 $65 billion
Private investment in industry:
1928 $15 billion
1933 $2 billion
1939 $10 billion
The Dust Bowl and Migration
50 million-acre region into a wasteland
Great dust clouds hundreds of miles out to sea
Little farms were buried
CCC planting trees from Texas to Canada
Mass migration from plains to California
Headed West on Route 66
Oklahoma = Okies
Competition for migrant work
Mexican Americans began arriving in California but were discriminated against in many New Deal Programs
Competition with Filipino Americans
During 1920’s Filipino population had grown 30,000
Worked in Agriculture
Filipino’s organized and protested wage reductions
Field Workers Union = Mexican and Filipino laborers
Picturing Life in the Depression
Photographs were taken by the federal government
Roosevelt believed these photographs would change opponents minds
FSA pictures were featured in LIFE and TIME magazines
Roy E. Stryker head of the FSA historical section hires Walker Evans – Sharecroppers in Alabama
Gordon Parks – Filmmaker
Margaret Bourke-White and Dorothea Lange – international photojournalists
Picturing Life Continued
Dorothea Lange was most talented
Studied photography and set out to tour world
By time she reached San Francisco she was out of money
Opened a portrait studio and during depression took pictures of homeless
Hired by federal government
Migrant mother is considered a masterpiece
Inspired Californians to defy state’s powerful growers’ associations
Insisted on decent, gov’t sponsored housing for seasonal harvesters
Pictures from the Dust Bowl
Pictures from Dust Bowl
Pictures from Dust Bowl
Evaluating the New Deal Many families untouched by New Deal reforms
NYA helped boost family incomes so children could stay in school
Critics claimed New Deal created a welfare state Promoted deficit spending
Federal gov’t/President became to involved in economy
Supporters argued that expanded role was necessary New Deal established minimum standards for working
Relieved suffering of many Americans
FDIC, SSA, SEC
Rea – in 1935 only 11% of farms had electricity, by 1950 90% had electricity
Electricity let the South diversify its economy and rely less on cash crops
Portraying the Depression Federal Project Number One
Provide work to artists in field of writing, theater, music, and visual arts
Novels Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Native Son – Richard Wright
Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Portraying the Depression Continued
Films Gold-Diggers – Ginger Rogers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJOjTNuuEVw
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town – Frank Capra
Corruption of wealthy and politicians
Theater Examples of ideas destroying the county
Examples of traditional American Values
Music and Painters Country Music became popular due to Grand Ole Opry
radio show
Gospel Music – cross between traditional spirituals and jazz
Swing Music – smooth big band style http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDQpZT3GhDg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= mHANNkKBSNU
Jacob Lawrence – Painted African American Heroes
Georgia O’Keeffe – Painted southwestern desert landscape
Regionalists = Midwestern artist stressed local folk themes Grant Wood – American Gothic
American Gothic