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benjamin meek miller as governor miller promised to reign in government spending in the state but once he took office he found that the worsening Depression combined with a failure of voluntary assistance placed new demands on the state treasury

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many industry workers were working part time, only 15,000 people had fulltime jobs and the resdt were jobless.

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many southerners including alabama, were close to, or are in poverty due the disruption of the plantation economy and the subsequent rise of widespread sharecropping and farm tenancy, low-wage industry, and a lackluster economy.

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The government borrowed nearly 500,000 dollars to help relieve and backed legislation to raise borrowing limits.

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Real Life payment were more common with urban families.

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he governor implemented a state income tax, borrowed nearly $500,000 to fund relief efforts, and backed legislation to raise borrowing limits

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The general economy decline in the 1920 and the depression affected the textile factories really bad.

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During the Depression, relief payments were much more prevalent among urban families

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Iron and steel imployment dropped by 28% from 1928 to 1931 25,000 were jobless and and 60,000 were working part time

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Cotton crops started decreasing because of boll weevil

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Miller promised to reign in government spending in the state (his nickname was "Old Economy"), but once he took office, he found that the worsening Depression combined with a failure of voluntary assistance placed new demands on the state treasury.

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During the Depression, relief payments were much more prevalent among urban families, who were more likely to live in proximity to privately run or church-affiliated aid centers and less likely to be as self-sufficient in terms of food or clothing as rural inhabitants.

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In response to the Great Depression, Congress approved President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, which provided $41 billion in funding for domestic programs like work relief for unemployed workers.

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the government had to borrow nearly $500,000 to fund relief efforts

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lasted throughout the 1930s and, for some Alabamians, into the early 1940s, which was longer than the nation as a whole.

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The general economic decline of the 1920s and the Depression also affected the textile industry. Several mills shuttered in the face of economic hardship.

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Historians now generally agree that, nationwide, the Great Depression did not begin with the stock market crash, but with a more gradual decline in key economic sectors.

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With declining income, unpaid teachers threatened to strike, and the governor implemented a state income tax, borrowed nearly $500,000 to fund relief efforts, and backed legislation to raise borrowing limits, but his efforts fell short, and many localities closed schools or reduced hours.

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The Depression brought hardship, homelessness, and hunger to millions of people. The depression also reached the cities.

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In the years after the Civil War, Alabamians, like many southerners, lived on the edge of poverty, a result of the disruption of the plantation economy and the subsequent rise of widespread sharecropping and farm tenancy, low-wage industry, and a lackluster economy.

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During the Depression, relief payments were much more prevalent among urban families, who were more likely to live in proximity to privately run or church-affiliated aid centers and less likely to be as self-sufficient in terms of food or clothing as rural inhabitants.

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Of nearly 3,000 mines and mills operating in the state in 1929, only half were still in operation in 1933 as an abrupt decline in national demand and international trade led to a drop in production. Employment in iron and steel industries fell by 28 percent from 1929 to 1931.

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The devastation of cotton crops by the spread of the boll weevil and a decline in cotton prices because of international competition further depressed the state's economy by the 1920s. Alabama's farm families experienced the first pangs of Depression when cotton prices plummeted.

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the ARA often favored non-union, skilled laborers and disregarded working-class and poor white and black Alabamians as undeserving of funds.

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The depression caused major political changes including President Herbert Hoover's loss in the presidential election of 1932 to Franklin Roosevelt.

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Benjamin Meek Miller disbanded Alabama's Law Enforcement Department which; combined with a nationwide push, led Alabama to approve the 21st amendment.

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the governor implemented a state income tax, borrowed nearly $500,000 to fund relief efforts, and backed legislation to raise borrowing limits

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since people did not have that much money many doctors, lawyers, and other professionals were paid with food, goods, and labor.

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Another sign of time worsening in the Great Depression, between 1920 and 1930, the average farm size shrank from 75 to 68 acres and dropped in value from $3,803 to $2,375 and the percentage of farms worked by tenants increased from 58 percent to 65 percent.

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With declining income, unpaid teachers threatened to strike, and the governor implemented a state income tax, borrowed nearly $500,000 to fund relief efforts, and backed legislation to raise borrowing limits, but his efforts fell short, and many localities closed schools or reduced hours.

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This era changed the the state's political, economic, and social traditions, Industrial work, and even encouraged some Alabamians, black and white, to push for basic civil rights.

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Alabama's textile industry weathered the Depression better than iron and steel, timber, or mining.

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In the 1930s prices dropped so low that many farmers went bankrupt and lost their farms. Some farm families began burning corn rather than coal in their stoves because corn was cheaper.

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Between 1929 and 1935, textile mills lost only 4,300 jobs, and then recovered dramatically after 1936 to outpace other state industries.

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The general economic decline of the 1920s and the Depression also affected the textile industry. Several mills shuttered in the face of economic hardship. Huntsville's Dallas Mill, for instance, went from a profit of almost $800,000 in 1920 to losses of almost $280,000 just a decade later.

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Benjamin Meek Miller as governor. Miller promised to reign in government spending in the state (his nickname was "Old Economy"), but once he took office, he found that the worsening Depression combined with a failure of voluntary assistance placed new demands on the state treasury.

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with rapidly declining government funds, state and local governments relied largely on relief administered by religious and charity organizations.

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The devastation of cotton crops by the spread of the boll weevil and a decline in cotton prices because of international competition further depressed the state's economy by the 1920s.

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The New deal, from franklin roosevelt, provided relief for many facing extreme poverty.

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No Alabama city suffered as much as Birmingham. Services, both private and public, were stretched by the starving, sick, homeless, and unemployed.

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due to farmers losing money average farm size shrank from 75 to 68 acres and the price fell from $3,808 to $2,375

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Relief payments were more prevalent among urban families.

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Alabama's industrial sector, centered in the Birmingham District, had expanded in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, and its collapse during the Great Depression devastated the state's economy even further.

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Due to the Great Depression there was decline in the textile industry. Several mills shuttered in the face of economic hardship.

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In the early 1930s prices dropped so low that many farmers went bankrupt and lost their farms.

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during the civil war many people in alabama were on the edge of poverty

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In the years after the Civil War, Alabamians, like many southerners, lived on the edge of poverty, a result of the disruption of the plantation economy and the subsequent rise of widespread sharecropping and farm tenancy, low-wage industry, and a lackluster economy.

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When the cotton prices declined farmers had to leave to look for work in the cites.

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by 1929, the industries, which were the backbone for prosperity in the "roaring twenties" experienced a decline in buyers as the farmers could not afford to buy the goods from the industries.

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Employment in iron and steel industries fell by 28 percent from 1929 to 1931.

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In the years after the Civil War, Alabamians, like many southerners, lived on the edge of poverty...

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Due to a decline in cotton prices, some farmers had to leave to find work in the cities while others fell deeper into debt and tenancy. The amount of landowners fell from 96,000 to about 75,000 between the years of 1920 and 1930.

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Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal provided relief for many facing poverty.

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the decline in agriculture had been going on much earlier than the stock market crash, which just made things for alabamians worse.