Ch. 17.2

Life During the Depression

Objectives1. Describe how the Great Depression

affected American families.

2. Discuss how artists portrayed the effects of the Depression.

Depression WorsensI. Depression Worsens *Stats= (1933) 9,000 banks fail, 30,000

companies fail, 12 million unemployed.A. Releif

1. Soup Kitchens & Bread LinesB. Makeshift Villages

1. shantytowns = HOOVERVILLES

a. hobos

What name was given to homeless villages outside major cities?

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0% 1. Hardingvilles2. Coolidegvilles3. Obamavilles4. Hoovervilles

The Dust BowlC. Dust Bowl

1. Great Plains = droughta. over-farmed without crop rotation

-dried soil + winds = dust cloudsb. “Okies”

Where was the Dust Bowl?

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0% 1. California2. Great Plains3. Mississippi4. Ohio

Escaping the DepressionII. Escaping the Depression

A. Hollywood1. Walt Disney

a. Snow White (1937)2. Wizard of Oz (1939) 3. Mr. Smith Goes to

Washington 4. Gone With the Wind5. Radio = Soap Operas

Depression in ArtIII. Depression in Art

A. American Gothic – Grant WoodB. Migrant Mother – William FaulknerC. Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck