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Hardship and Suffering During the Great Depression
The Depression hits the Rural Areas
Sam Nichols, tenant farmer, Boone County, Arkansas, October 1935
The Tenant Farmer
Between 1929-1932 400,000farms were lost to forclosure
“Dust” hits the Great Plains
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Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado became known
as the Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl Refugees
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A dust storm approaching Stratford, Texas, on April 18, 1935.
The Depression in the Cities
Shantytowns: (Hoovervilles)little towns consisting of shacks
Soup Kitchens and Bread lines:Offering free or low-cost food and bread
Hoover’s Approach
• “Every time we find a solutions outside of government, we have not only strengthened character but have preserved our sense of real government”
• Reactions?
Hoover’s Presidency: Great Depression
• Hoover took office 1928
• Stock market Crash 1929
• 1929- 600 banks closed
• 1933- 11,000 out of 25,000 banks failed
• Gov’t did not insure peoples account
• Great Depression (1929-1940)
• 1929-1933 GDP- 104 to 59 billion
• 90,000 businesses bankrupt
• Unemployment• 1929- 3% (1.6 million)• 1933-25% (13 million)
CF 130044. Petition of Unemployed for Relief, February 13, 1931. Comptroller Files, 1802-01, Seattle Municipal Archives. Unemployed "Demonstrate flyer,"
Does Hoover Need to take Action?
CF 130044. Petition of Unemployed for Relief, February 13, 1931. Comptroller Files, 1802-01, Seattle Municipal Archives. Unemployed "Demonstrate flyer,"
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"Bonus Army" WWI Veterans protesting unpaid
pensions
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