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This is a t-chart on the cause and Effect

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Political, Economic, and Social Changes.

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Political, Economic, and Social Changes.

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Social: During the Dust Bowl, people were very sad because they lost all of the crops that they had planted in their life.
People that lost their farms and went to California to look for a job, but their were more people there than there were
jobs.
Economic: The economy was bad during the dust bowl because the grain prices went way up. That meant less people
could afford the new prices. Since people weren't buying the expensive grain, the farmers lost money

Political: There were no political changes in the Dust Bowl because Franklin D. Roosevelt was still the prisident.

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This political cartoon shows how the sun is causing a drought and killing the crops and making prices for grain going way up. This was bad because no one could afford the high grain prices, and farmers lost all the crops they had planted before this.

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1. During the Dust Bowl, over 2.5 million people left the area that was affected.

2. The Dust Bowl reached the East Coast at one point.

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This is a picture of John Steinbeck. He was deeply affected by the Great Depression. His most famous novel was The Grapes of Wrath.

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This is a picture of Woody Guthrie. Guthrie sang sad songs about loss and struggle during the Dust Bowl. Many Americans could relate to this.

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This is a picture of the Dust Bowl. This picture is showing how bad the dust bowl was. It was one of the worst parts of the Great Depression.

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1. People wanted to sell their stocks, but no one

wanted to buy them, which caused the stock

market to crash.

2. People panicked and tried to withdraw money

from the bank, but the bank lost all of its money

on the stock market.

3. People needed to pay back their loans, but

they didn't have the money, so they lost their

houses.

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1. In 1933, 25% of America was unemployed.

2. Both the Golden Gate Bridge and the Empire

State Building were completed during the

Great Depression.

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Political: When Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for president he promised to provide relief to people suffering in the depression. Roosevelt started to make plans even before he ran for president. People had to face harsh winters waiting for Roosevelt to take over presidency .

Economical: During the Depression there were some problems of getting some of the workers to work. The workers would sit down and not do there job so that they couldn't be replaced by other workers. This became know as a sit-down strike. The first time workers tried it at General Motors, it worked, which attracted more people to join the CIO.

Social: People were protected because of the Social Security Act which provided children, elderly people, disabled people, and unemployed people with financial security. Also, Americans with radios listened to President Roosevelt in fireside chats. In these fireside chats, Roosevelt would answer critics of his New Deal.

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This picture shows what it was like in the Great Depression because there were a lot of sit-down strikes going on during the Great Depression. Workers who didn't make a lot of money would strike by sitting in the factory so they couldn't be replaced by other workers. It was a very successful tactic.

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This picture shows what it was like in the Great Depression because it is a picture of the Tennessee Valley Authority. It has provided many people jobs. Also, this is one of many dams in Tennessee.

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This cartoon is saying that Roosevelt has all of the precious businesses in his hands. And that he has the best hand so that he can win the bet, and pay the expenses.

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This picture shows what it was like in the Great Depression because it shows Franklin D. Roosevelt broadcasting a fireside chat on NBC and CBS and trying to help people get through the Depression.

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Section 2

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This picture shows what it was like in the Great Depression because it shows that things were going so well in the 20s, but in the 30s, people were lucky just to have a job.

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This picture shows what it was like in the Great Depression because it shows how bad living conditions were. People literally lived in huts.

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This picture shows what it was like in the Great Depression because it shows how desperate people are to get jobs.

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Economical, Political, and Social Changes of the Great Depression

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Economical, Political, and Social Changes of the Great Depression

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Economical: The economical changes of the Great Depression were huge. In the 20s, lots of people were rich and were living well, but in the Great

Depression, banks ran out of money and the stock market crashed and all the investors lost their money.

Political: Since Hoover, a Republican, was president during the crash, people voted for the Democrat in the next election, Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected,

and re-elected 3 more times after that. Roosevelt helped America get out of the Depression by putting things like Social Security in place.

Social: America changed a lot during the Great Depression. Crime rates went up because people needed to steal things just to make enough money to feed

themselves. Also, suicide rates increased because people were suffering from things like starvation. People resorted to alcohol for an escape from the pain

and suffering of the Great Depression.

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The topic of this cartoon is what caused the Great Depression. The symbols are a dark cloud called "Hoover Prosperity," a lightning bolt, and Uncle Sam. The cartoon is saying that what Hoover thought was making the country prosper eventually came back to haunt us and "struck" America with a Great Depression.

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Hoovervilles are villages that have homes made out of

random materials. The people that live in them are homeless.

The game Monopoly became popular during the Great Depression,

possibly because people could be rich; in their imaginations.

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A Microsoft Moviemaker Movie I made for my 9th grade students. It focuses on the effects of the Great Depression in urban and rural settings as well as the effects of the GD on African-Americans.

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1. What year did the stock market crash?

2. How many banks went out of business?

3. How many businesses went bankrupt?

4. How many people were unemployed?

5. How may men became homeless?

6. When did the Great Depression unofficially end?