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The Great Depression

Published on Dec 01, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

THE ECONOMY

IN THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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BLACK TUESDAY

  • Radios were popular appliances
  • 16,410,030 stocks were sold
  • Was called the Bull Market
  • Banks shut down
  • People tried to do suicide
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HOUSES

  • Hoovervilles were formed
  • Most people sold everything they had
  • Credit helped people buy things
  • Lots of farmers had to sell fruit for less
  • Rich people even lost a lot
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JOBS

  • Young men got jobs planting trees
  • Farmers sold many fruit
  • The government payed farmers to plant fruit
  • Elanor Roosevelt wrote about people without jobs
  • People got hired to pick fruit off trees
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