Groups kept presenting today.
What impact did the SMC and GD have on the loves of people in the us?
Great Depression
Children
- Would write to the president for help:
- Shoes
- Clothing
- Money
- Boxcar kids- children that ran from home and lived on railroads
- Child Labor Laws formed
- Ran from home
- Girls dressed like boys
Women
- Men and women were affected different
- Men felt like failures, suicide rates went up
- Women felt as if their household jobs were enhance
- Not a lot of money to live off of
Men
- Looking for jobs
- Lost their self of steem
- The left their family most the times
- 1.5 million left their wives in the 1930's
Families
- Marriage
- Divorce
- Children- birth rate dropped
- Family Income-dropped 30%
- Stress
- How family responded- made some family stronger by helping each other out and some family it wrecked
Farmers
- Corn prices dropped 5-10 percent a bushel
- some farmers were burning their corn for warmth
- Living off land
- Farmers would eat their own animals
- Bartering- for needles and sugar
- Flour sacks were what most the children wore for clothes
Wealthy People
- Not affected most the time
- 40% of the country was not affected
- Didn't really notice others suffering
- Some lost a lot of money
- Flaunted Wealth more
Living Conditions
- Hoovervilles- a town made from any kind of material found
- Homeless
- living anywhere they could including park benches and under news paper
Jobs
- More and more people were looking for jobs and because of that most of the jobs were given out to the whites
- Women were usually fired due to the fact that it was though that they were taking jobs from men
- Getting a job was essential to living at the time
Dust Bowl
- Drought and over plowing
- 8 years long
- Worst Drought in history
What did the U.S Gov. do to help alleviate the problems the G.D brought to our country?
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