Great Depression
By: Kimberly Salvino, Kristen Sposetta, Alex
St.Clair, and Morgan Groom
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The Start of it All
October 29, 1929 was
the day that the stock market
crashed, causing the start of
The Great Depression.
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It is also known as
“Black Tuesday”
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Facts
March 1930 the unemployment rate rose
from 1.5 million to 3.2 million.
On February 1931 the “Food Riots” began
to break out in parts of the U.S. Hundreds
of men and women broke into grocery
stores to steal food.
Unemployment
The Life Of the People
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Life for the people during the Great Depression was
hard. Many adults made their children move out and
fend for themselves after they turned 16.
The wealthy and better off families found themselves
asking for handout of breads and pails of stew.
Lawns were ripped up and replaced by gardens.
The Dust Bowl
The dust bowl is an area of land where there
is no vegetation and so the soil has been
turned to dust from
erosion.
Farmers and the Dust Bowl
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With the number of meat products decreasing, the
government had to buy and destroy herds of cattle.
(The dust bowl covered about 4 states.)
It was more tragic for farmers to give up their cattle than
any other government program, but in return it helped
most avoid bankruptcy.
Dust bowl facts
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In 1931, severe drought occurred in the midwest and
great plains. Many crops died and the “Black Blizzard”
began.
The “Black Blizzard” was a massive dust storm that
created drifts as high as 6 feet.
By the late 1930’s early 1940’s about 2.6 million people
left the Dust Bowl area. Other people that lived in the
area still, tried to harvest the crops from abandoned
farmlands.
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Roosevelt’s New Deal
FDR promised that he would end the Great Depression,
and he later came up with the “New Deal.”
The “New Deal” was made to save capitalism from the
Great Depression.
He thought that the government
should use their powers and money
to stabilize the economy.
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Videos
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaZ04GL6gNw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIDvb-0eBoc
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