PRESENTATION OUTLINE
The 1930's and The Depression
Dust Drifts in Liberal, Kansas
I chose this because it shows how much the sand drifted after the storms and how dangerous this was.
Unemployed workers gathered together by a Christmas tree.
I chose this picture because it shows how people were not able to spend the holidays in their own homes during this time.
A bank for sale in Connecticut.
A chose this picture because it shows how the banks went down during the Depression and could no longer be open for business.
Men working for the State Emergency Relief Administration(SERA).
I chose this picture because it shows how the government helped employ the men who were without jobs by giving them work.
Ex-slave and wife on the steps of the rotting plantation house that they now live in.
I chose this picture because it shows how the African Americans didn't live in the best conditions and they has to resort to living in a rotting house.
Boys playing at a carnival.
I chose this picture because it shows that people still tried to have fun even though they were in a tough financial stage at the time.
Abandoned Ghost Town in Oklahoma.
I chose this picture because it shows how people abandoned their homes and towns during the dust bowl because it was unhealthy for people to live in those conditions
Wheeler Dam, Alabama (Tennessee Valley Authority)
I chose this picture because the government gave unemployed men jobs by building a series of dams, including the dam in the picture above
Men lined up at an employment agency.
I chose this picture because it shows how many people were jobless during the depression.
