Hardship and Suffering During the Great Depression.

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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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