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    The Great Depression devastated people's lives across the United States. In cities, many lost their jobs and homes, forcing them to live in makeshift shantytowns while waiting in bread lines for food. African Americans and Latinos faced increased racial violence as unemployment led to tensions over scarce jobs. In rural areas, overproduction and dust storms destroyed the livelihoods of many farmers, causing over 400,000 to lose their farms to foreclosure and forcing migration west. Families struggled as men roamed the streets as homeless hobos or tramps looking for work. Women and children suffered from malnutrition and lack of healthcare as families tried to carefully manage their meager resources. The hardships of the Depression had lasting

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    The Great Depression devastated people's lives across the United States. In cities, many lost their jobs and homes, forcing them to live in makeshift shantytowns while waiting in bread lines for food. African Americans and Latinos faced increased racial violence as unemployment led to tensions over scarce jobs. In rural areas, overproduction and dust storms destroyed the livelihoods of many farmers, causing over 400,000 to lose their farms to foreclosure and forcing migration west. Families struggled as men roamed the streets as homeless hobos or tramps looking for work. Women and children suffered from malnutrition and lack of healthcare as families tried to carefully manage their meager resources. The hardships of the Depression had lasting

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    The Great Depression devastated people's lives across the United States. In cities, many lost their jobs and homes, forcing them to live in makeshift shantytowns while waiting in bread lines for food. African Americans and Latinos faced increased racial violence as unemployment led to tensions over scarce jobs. In rural areas, overproduction and dust storms destroyed the livelihoods of many farmers, causing over 400,000 to lose their farms to foreclosure and forcing migration west. Families struggled as men roamed the streets as homeless hobos or tramps looking for work. Women and children suffered from malnutrition and lack of healthcare as families tried to carefully manage their meager resources. The hardships of the Depression had lasting

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    HARDSHIP AND SUFFERING DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION

    p. 472-477

    Objectives
    Describe how people stuggled to survive during the Depression
    Explain how the Depression affected men, women, and children

    THE DEPRESSION DEVASTATES PEOPLES LIVES


    The Depression in the Cities

    African-Americans & Latinos

    Shantytowns

    Unemployment higher

    Neighborhood in which people live in makeshift


    shacks

    Pay lower

    Soup Kitchens
    A place where free or low cost food is served to the
    needy

    Bread Lines
    A line of people waiting for free food

    Unemployment leads to more racially


    fueled violence
    33 reported lynchings in 1933
    Calls for Latinos to be deported, even if they were
    born in the United States

    THE DEPRESSION DEVASTATES PEOPLES LIVES


    The Depression in Rural Areas

    The Dust Bowl

    Falling prices and rising debt

    Dust Bowl

    1929-1932
    ~400,000 farms were lost due to
    foreclosure
    Many have to turn to tenant
    farming

    The region that was made worthless for farming


    by drought and dust storms during the 1930s

    Plowing the western grass lands


    Overproduction
    Topsoil displaced
    People begin to migrate west towards California

    EFFECTS ON THE AMERICAN FAMILY


    Men in the Streets

    Hobos
    Migratory worker

    Direct relief

    Tramps

    The giving of money or food by the


    government directly to needy people

    Work only when they are forced

    New York City

    Bum

    $2.39 per week highest in the country


    $43.65 2014

    Do not work at all

    EFFECTS ON THE AMERICAN FAMILY


    Women Struggle to Survive

    Children Suffer Hardships

    Carefully management of the household

    Poor diets and lack of health care

    Canned food
    Sewed
    Pulled resources

    Milk consumption declined across the country


    Malnutrition reports raised
    Rickets

    Working outside the home

    School closures

    Resentment towards married women getting work


    over men
    1930s, married women were not hired as school
    teachers

    Less tax revenue


    Shorter year
    1933 26,000 school closed
    300,000 student out of school

    EFFECTS ON THE AMERICAN FAMILY


    Children Suffer Hardships (cont.)

    Hoover tourist

    Social and Psychological Effects


    Suicide
    Between 1928-1932 rose 30%
    3x as many people were admitted to state mental hospitals

    Sons of the poor who traveled the United


    States in search of work & adventure

    Doctor visits stopped

    1929 1939

    Give up on college

    24,647 trespassers were killed


    27,171 were injured on railroad property

    Put off marriage, large families

    Financial security became the primary focus

    1. Why did people in cities live in shacks and wait in


    bread lines?
    2. How did competition for jobs impact race relations
    during the Great Depression?
    3. Why did many families leave their land during the
    Great Depression?
    4. How did the Depression affect men and their
    families?
    5. How did the Depression affect women and children?
    6. From what long-lasting psychological consequences
    did Depression survivors suffer?

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