THE GREAT DEPRESSION

WHAT IS THE GREAT DEPRESSION?

• The Great Depression was a period of time beginning in 1929 to 1930. The stock market crash started the whole problem. Many jobs were lost. Many families were out on the streets.

THE STOCK MARKET

• The stock market was during the 1920's
• By then the production had already declined and unemployment has risen.
• This was leaving the stock I great excess of their real value
• The market collapse were low wages, in debt, a struggling agricultural and excess large bank loan .

HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE AFFECTED?

• The Great Depression did not affect everyone in the same way.
• Many rich people didn't feel like the Great Depression impact on them at all
• Over 600,000 people were affected, mostly people that had became poor and homeless.

AS YOU CAN SEE...

• Many people lost there life over the Great Depression
• Many farmers crops were destroyed and they could not grow their food anymore
• Many jobs were lost and people didn't have money without there jobs

HERE IS A EXAMPLE OF WHAT HAPPEN

HERE WE HAVE A HOMELESS GIRL

• She needs money
• She need food to survive
• She has a baby and the baby cannot be fed.
• She has no money !
• The stock market crash took away her whole life.

CAN YOU PLEASE HELP HER?

"THE NEW DEAL"

• The New Deal was a series of domestic program enacted in the US between 1933-1938, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term of President Franklin Roosevelt.

PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT

• He was born on January 30, 1982
• He became president in 1933
• He

CAUSE OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION

• Stock Market of 1929
• Bank Failures
• Reduction in purchasing across the board
• American economic policy with Europe

THE DUST BOWL STORM !

"DIRTIY THIRTIES"

• Dirty Thirties was a period of severe dust storms greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the U.S. and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure lot apply dry land farming methods to prevent wind erosion .
• Dirty Thirties is the name of the dust storm that occur and destroyed farmers crops, and etc.

HOW DOES TKMB CONNECTS TO GD

CONNECTION TO TKAMB

• When Scout was making it known to the class that Walter Cunningham didn't have enough money to buy himself lunch. So she told everyone about it.

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