https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz Find a picture and three important details for the section you are assigned. en-us 2020-10-11 18:39:58 UTC 2026-05-01 16:54:36 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f42d.png plylerg https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835577509 In The Great Depression, high employment rates, bank failures, people losing jobs, as well as their homes and possessions, was marked in this decade.  Many of those who were able to keep their jobs barely made enough to make ends meet. The value of currency declined steadily, and the agricultural market spiraled downward. Panic spread throughout the country]]> 2020-10-16 13:51:04 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835577509 https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835577600 The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.]]> 2020-10-16 13:51:05 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835577600 https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835578428 2020-10-16 13:51:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835578428 https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835579304 2020-10-16 13:51:34 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835579304 https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835581398 many of them were racial and ethic minorities working for very low wages and living in awful conditions. The Great Depression made the conditions even worst. Thousands of them travelled the states, searching for work. They were excluded from the National Labor Relations Act.]]> 2020-10-16 13:52:11 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835581398 https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835583378 In the early 1920s, consuming were buying more goods that ever as companies were mass-producing American goods such as radios, refrigerators, and automobiles. Technological advances were constantly being made, which contributed to high consumer spending. During these times, the GNP was incredibly high, thus making many people from different economic backgrounds investing in the stock market.]]> 2020-10-16 13:52:43 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835583378 https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835583614 2020-10-16 13:52:47 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835583614 https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835584927 The drought and erosion of the Dust Bowl affected 100,000,000 acres (400,000 km²) that centered on the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma and touched adjacent sections of New Mexico, Colorado, and Kansas.]]> 2020-10-16 13:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835584927 https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835586390 2020-10-16 13:53:32 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835586390 https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835588164 With insufficient understanding of the ecology of the plains, farmers had conducted extensive deep plowing.]]> 2020-10-16 13:53:59 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835588164 plylerg https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835588812 In The Great Depression, By 1933, nearly half of the banks in the country had failed, and almost 15 million people were unemployed. ]]> 2020-10-16 13:54:10 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835588812 https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835591678 2020-10-16 13:54:58 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835591678 plylerg https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835599473 By spring of 1929, consumer spending had begun to decline, and manufacturers faced a period of overproduction, resulting in a surplus of goods and a slowdown in production. However, stock prices kept rising, despite the slowdown. On September 3, 1929, the stock market reached its peak. Two days later, the market started to drop. Panic set in and investors began selling their shares at an alarming rate, and investors who had bought shares on margin were virtually penniless.]]> 2020-10-16 13:57:02 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835599473 https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835599921 African Americans had less of a financial cushion to fall back on when the economy collapsed.]]> 2020-10-16 13:57:10 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835599921 https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835604560 They had the highest unemployment rate during the 1930s, doubling or even tripling those of whites.]]> 2020-10-16 13:58:22 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835604560 https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835611615 2020-10-16 14:00:16 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835611615 https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835612659 Both the Roaring 20s and The Great Depression were caused by the economy and work/production. They were also time periods that were next to each other chronologically. The Roaring 20s led right into the Great Depression.]]> 2020-10-16 14:00:33 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835612659 plylerg https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835613199 Many African Americans during this time were unemployed due to their skin color. ]]> 2020-10-16 14:00:40 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835613199 hammanz https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835814645 He was awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962. Before his success he would work as a manual laborer. which made his books about workers more authentic. He was most successful with mythopoeic and archetypal qualities in his characters.]]> 2020-10-16 14:54:58 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835814645 hammanz https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835840325 In the time about 25% of white workers were unemployed. While 70% of African Americans were unemployed. By 1940 1.75 million African Americans had moved north.]]> 2020-10-16 15:01:51 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835840325 https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835918495 During the Great Depression hundreds of thousands of African Americans fell into debt do to being highly unemployed ]]> 2020-10-16 15:22:00 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835918495 https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835958542 1- The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms the severely damaged ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.

2- The Dust Bowl forced tens of thousands of poverty-stricken families to abandon their farms, unable to pay mortgages or grow crops, and losses reached $25 million per day by 1936 (equivalent to $460,000,000 in 2019).

3- During the drought of the 1930s, the unanchored soil turned to dust, which the prevailing winds blew away in huge clouds that sometimes blackened the sky. ]]> 2020-10-16 15:32:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/835958542 https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/837044539 Though everyone was impacted by the Great Depression, African Americans were impacted a lot more than other Americans, as around half were unemployed by 1932.]]> 2020-10-16 21:39:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/837044539 https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/837055666 John Ernst Steinbeck was an American author that we know now by a couple of his more popular works, "Of Mice and Men', and "The Grapes of Wrath". These works helped to convey sympathy to workers and now allow us to understand some of the aspects of the Great Depression era. Before he became popular, Steinbeck went to college at Stanford, and supported himself by doing manual labor, while he began writing.]]> 2020-10-16 21:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/837055666 https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/837861160 1.The Dust Bowl was a series of dust storms in the 1930's. The dust bowl lead to people leaving the plain states because they simple could not live in the conditions.

2. The Dust Bowl was so thick it blocked the sun and brought severe drought. This made it very difficult to grow any crop. Leaving families without food, and without a profit. 

3.  The thick dust often suffocated the livestock causing another problem. The people living in the plain states that were affected by the Dust Bowl simple could not live without food, so they had to flee. ]]> 2020-10-17 18:09:33 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/837861160 https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/841887584 - John Steinbeck, (born February 27, 1902, and died December 20, 1968), is an american novelist known for the naturalistic novels he wrote.
- Most of Steinbeck's works were based on proletarian themes around the 1930's.
-  Some of his notable works are “The Grapes of Wrath”, “East of Eden”, “Of Mice and Men”, “Tortilla Flat”, “In Dubious Battle”, and more.]]> 2020-10-19 16:51:57 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/841887584 https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/841948564 During the Great Depression, African Americans faced discrimination by being rejected to be hired by city apartment stores, which led to boycotts. ]]> 2020-10-19 17:04:49 UTC https://padlet.com/hop17/y2hn76de3ka3ivgz/wish/841948564