Hardship and Suffering during the Depression

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Hardship and Suffering during the Depression

• What and Where were some of the areas affected by
  the Depression?

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• 1. How did it affect the Cities?
• (Shantytowns, soup kitchen lines, bread lines)
• 2. Depression in the rural areas what happened?
• Farms were lost through foreclosure.
• What other areas?

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Dust Bowl

• Began in the early 1930s - what areas did it
  affect?
• What happened to the people who lived in that
  region?

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What effects did it have on the American Family?

• What happened to the men?
• There was also no federal system of direct relief
  - cash payments or food provided by the
  government.
• How did women struggle?
• How did children struggle?
• What were the psychological affects?

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• 1. Suicide rates were very high.
• The sacrifices they made affected them for the
  rest of their life.
• a. stopped going to doctors, dentists
• b. kids didnt go to college and ended up working
  in demoralizing jobs
• C. Bc they had to save constantly, they carried
  that stigma for the rest of their lives part of
  their their personality.

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What would the President do?

• 1. First tried to reassure the nation.
• 2. Americans back then really valued rugged
  individualism what is that..?
• 3. Why didnt Hoover help?
• a. Believed hand outs would weaken peoples
  self-respect.
• b. Believed that people should help each
  other out through charities and local
  organizations.

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Boulder Dam

• 1. One project Hoover did approve that helped was
  the Boulder Dam. (Now called Hoover Dam)
• 2. Highest dam in the world.
• Provides water and power to cities like Los
  Angeles and Las Vegas.

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Unpopularity is growing..

• Democrats won more congressional seats.
• By 1930, people were calling shantytown's
  Hooverviles.
• Homeless called the newspapers they wrapped
  themselves in Hoover blankets
• Hoover refused to budge on his policies. there
  was a growing hatred toward him in America.

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The Bonus Army

• In 1932, another incident made Hoover look even
  worse.
• Walt Waters, a WWI vet led this Bonus Army to
  march on the capital to support a bill under
  debate.
• The Patman Bill told the govt. to pay a bonus to
  WWU vets who had not been compensated.
• It was to be in the form of case and a life
  insurance policy in 1945.

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• But Congressman Wright Patman said it should be
  paid immediately and NOT until 1945. (500.00 per
  soldier)
• Hoover thought the Bonus Marchers were communist
  and convicts.
• The Senate voted down the bill.
• Hoover decides to disband the bonus army
• Called in a force of 1,000 soldiers to gas over
  1500 people including an 11 month year old baby
  and an 8 year old boy.
• When Franklin Delano Roosevelt heard of this, he
  knew this event would elect him