The Great Depression

1929-1939

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CAUSES:  THE GREAT DEPRESSION

• The Stock Market is a place people buy (invest) money in companies in hopes that they will earn more money.

• October 29, 1929 – known as Black Tuesday – the stock market “crashed” (stopped working to make people money).

• Banks failed and people lost all their money.

• Drought (no rain) conditions in the central U.S. caused agriculture to fail.

The Effects of The Great Depression

• $26 billion that had been invested in the Stock Market was lost!

• 25% of people in the U.S. were eventually unemployed.

The Effects of The Great Depression

• In 1930 Texans did not feel the impact right away.

• Many Texans had farms or worked on farms, so they could grow food and not go hungry.

• The oil industry was still flourishing.

• Construction was still growing. 

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Why was Texas not affected by the economic depression immediately?

The Effects of The Great Depression

• However, in 1931, oil prices fell.

• As the depression worsened across the United States in 1931 and 1932, Texans eventually had to recognize that the Great Depression was a worldwide economic crisis.

Multiple Choice

When did Texans start to admit that the Great Depression was a WORLDWIDE CRISIS and begin to experience this event in full?

• When the price of oil fell.

• When Texas ran out of oil.

• When the farmers gave up.

What is the first thing you notice. Do NOT SAY, "They are poor." By THING I mean the DETAILS.

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What is the first thing you notice about this iconic photo? (click on the photo to see up close)

The Effects of The Great Depression

• Banks closed and people lost all their money, and some families found themselves homeless.

• Cotton prices dropped to 5 or 6 cents a pound.

• People lost their farms and their jobs.

Multiple Choice

Prices dropped on which Texas crop that caused Texans to lose their farms?

• Cattle

• Corn

• Indigo

• Cotton

People in Texas still found ways to work.

This is a sharecropper. The site to which I found this image said that he was thrilled with the turn out of his crop and was able to pay off his loan plus some.

Left: Migrant Worker, Right Top: Migrant Mother, Bottom Right: Hoovervilles

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Write a HEADLINE for this Grouping of Pictures.

HELP:  THE GREAT DEPRESSION

• Private charities were set up to help the poor.

• In major cities, soup kitchens and bread lines began to spring up where the homeless and starving could be fed.

Open Ended

What types of HELP could people receive during this economic crisis?

What do you see?

Try to describe this image using one word. My word would be irony.

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Why did FDR's NEW DEAL offer hope to the US during the Great Depression?

HELP:  THE GREAT DEPRESSION

• Civilian Conservation Corps,  (CCC) 

• Government funded work relief program for young men

• Built recreational parks and worked in forest and soil conservation projects

• Workers were given food, shelter, and $30 a month. Workers lived in barracks much like a military camp.

• $25 had to be sent home to their families.

Multiple Choice

The CCC offered work to which of the following?

• Young Men

• Artists, Craftsmen, and Teachers

• Unemployed Men

HELP:  THE GREAT DEPRESSION

• Public Works Administration (PWA)

• Government funded work relief program for unemployed men

• Hired to build canals, tunnels, bridges, highways, streets, sewage systems, as well as hospitals, schools, and universities

• Housing was built for people in poverty.

Multiple Choice

The PWA offered work to which of the following?

• Young Men

• Artists, Craftsmen, and Teachers

• Unemployed Men

HELP: THE GREAT DEPRESSION

• Works Progress Administration (WPA)

• Government agency that hired workers to build public buildings and roads

  
  

• Employed artists, writers, actors and directors in large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects

• 600,000  people in Texas were helped by the WPA.

Multiple Choice

The WPA offered work to which of the following?

• Young Men

• Artists, Craftsmen, and Teachers

• Unemployed Men

Open Ended

Why did the work programs give people more HOPE than bread lines and soup kitchens?

THE GREAT DEPRESSION

• When World War II began, the effects of The Great Depression began to decline.

• Millions of workers were hired to work in the factories that built war materials such as airplanes, guns, tanks, and ammunition.

• Due to 17 million people being employed in the war effort, the economy began to improve.