22
The Great Depression

Great depression power point revised

Embed Size (px)

DESCRIPTION

 

Citation preview

Page 1: Great depression power point revised

The Great Depression

Page 2: Great depression power point revised

The Great Depression

• The Great Depression was the biggest and most important economic slump in world history.

• It affected North America, Europe, and other industrialized areas of the world

• It started when the stock market crashed on October 29, 1929.

• It lasted until 1939.• The day of the crash became known as “Black

Tuesday.”

Page 3: Great depression power point revised

What?• Stock is another word for supply.• If a company wants to grow, it needs money. Rather than

borrowing from a bank, some companies issue stock; this way they can grow more money without going into debt.

• Owning stock in a company is like owning a little piece of that company.

• People like to buy stock in a company because as the company’s money grows, so does their money. They get more money!

• After Black Tuesday, the value of stocks in the stock market dropped by 80%!

• People were sad.

Page 4: Great depression power point revised

Why were people so sad?

Page 5: Great depression power point revised

Many places in the US couldn’t help the citizens who needed work.

• They had no jobs to offer.

Page 6: Great depression power point revised

Without work, people could not afford food. Many had no choice but to wait on breadlines

for free food.

Page 7: Great depression power point revised

As a result of no work, many people became homeless.

They were forced to live in shantytowns that became known as Hoovervilles.

They were called Hoovervilles because Herbert Hoover was the president at the beginning of the Depression and people felt strongly that he didn’t help the situation as much as he could have.

People slept in boxes, piano crates and even on the ground.

Page 8: Great depression power point revised
Page 9: Great depression power point revised

But the Great Depression wasn’t the only thing getting people down.

There was great turmoil in the Great Plains of the United States.

There was a drought. And the drought caused problems.

Page 10: Great depression power point revised

The DUST BOWL!

Page 11: Great depression power point revised

Pay attention to the next few slides…

• See if you can figure out what happened to the farms in the middle of the U.S.

• Think about what might have been the cause of such a thing.

• …and how the Depression happening at the same time might have made things a little. Bit. More. Complicated.

Page 12: Great depression power point revised

Look!

Page 13: Great depression power point revised

What is going on here?

Page 14: Great depression power point revised

What happened?• That last slide was a dust storm as it approached

Stratford, Texas, on April 18, 1935. • The drought of the 1930s turned the fertile Southern

Plains into what came to be known as the "Dust Bowl.”• In addition to the drought, the deep plowing of the

new top soil of the Great Plains killed the young, natural grasses there.

• Without grass to keep moisture in the soil and, well, to keep the soil in it’s right place, the soil was free to move wherever it wanted.

• It wanted to move with the wind. • And it did.

Page 15: Great depression power point revised

Crazy!

Page 16: Great depression power point revised

The effects of the Dust Bowl caused farmers to leave their homes and go look for work

elsewhere.

Page 17: Great depression power point revised

The people who left their homes and abandoned their land to search for new work were called migrant workers.

Page 18: Great depression power point revised

Check out the drought…

Page 19: Great depression power point revised

The Heart of The Dust Bowl

Page 20: Great depression power point revised

Where would you go?

Page 21: Great depression power point revised
Page 22: Great depression power point revised

Dustbowl ExperienceMost farmers, when they decide to leave their farms, load their household possessions in trucks or trailers, and take to the highway under power. Many of the townspeople, having no means of transport, are forced to abandon their property and leave on foot, with only the clothes on their backs and such bundles as may be carried in their hands. After every storm the highways are thronged with these refugees. On the roads running through Meade and Montezuma I have seen hundreds of people in endless procession, heading out of the Dust Bowl. So it was in 1934, in 1935, in 1936, in 1937, and in 1938—thousands of families deserting towns and farms, all seeking some haven of relief from the dust.-----Lawrence Svobida (Dust Bowl Survivor)