1. What were the causes of the Great Depression? Continued.....
tariffs, less world trade, drought (dust bowl)
3. What did the United States government do to help alleviate the problems the Great Depression brought to our country?
President Hoover
Roosevelt-New Deal(Goals/1st and 2nd)
How did the New Deal impact the following: unemployed, young people, factory workers/labor unions, farmers, elderly/poor, homeowners, artists/musicians, women/African-American/Native Americans, banks, stock market, energy
unemployment- competition for low paying jobs, discrimination, 1933 was the greatest unemployment rate, people became homeless, Hoovervilles (shacks made of cardboard, sheet metal, and plywood)
young people- boxcar children, teenagers left their home and road on trains
farmers- prices fell, more production, went bankrupt, lost farms
starvation- people were starving and Hoover did nothing, breadlines
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