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Human Effects Of The Depression Flashcards

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What did people who had a job and income benefit from

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The lower prices

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Which industries continued to prosper during the Depression?

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Electronics, aviation and the film industry

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What percentage was unemployment at in 1933

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25%

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What was happening in the industrial cities in the north?

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The rate of unemployment was even higher

Factories and businesses cut down on production or shut down completely

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How much of the labour force was unemployed in Chicago in 1933

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Half the labour force

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How many black people of working age were unemployed in Charleston in 1931

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70%

Blacks were especially hard hit

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How many blacks in Memphis were unemployed in 1931

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75%

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What did hundreds and thousands of Americans do to try and find work

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Took to the roads and travelled as hobos from place to place

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What were some serious effects of the Great Depression on Americans? (7 please) 1929-32

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1) fall in exports, production, sales, wages
2) Banks bankrupted = run on banks/banking crisis
3) farmers bankrupt = drift to Cali
4) unemp - ESP. North and black community = hobos and beggars
5) homelessness = Hoovervilles
6) charity = soup kitchens and breadlines
7) bonus army, riots, demonstrations

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What was a non so serious effect of Great Depression on Americans? 1929-32

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Not everyone suffered

‘New industries’ prospered, people with steady wages benefitted from falling prices

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When Americans became unemployed what happened (help)

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There were no dole parents to help them

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Why did homeless people have to sell possessions? (Two)

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To pay back loans or credit taken out during the good years

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What happened to homeless people who could not meet their mortgage payments

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Their house was repossessed

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How many Americans lost their homes in 1932 alone?

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250,000

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Where did homeless people sleep when they were on the streets

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Park benches or bus shelters

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What extremes did homeless people go to?

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They deliberately got themselves arrested so they could spend the night in jail

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What were Hoovervilles made up of and where did people build them mostly?

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Hoovervilles from whatever they could find - corrugated iron, scrap metal, old wood.

Many built on waste grounds

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Why did the shelters become called Hoovervilles

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Because it was an insult to the president, Herbert Hoover, who had a policy of ‘rugged individualism’ which meant he did not help the people - ‘every man for himself’

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When were the ww1 soldiers promised to get their ‘bonus’ (pension)

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1945

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When did many war veterans start asking the government to pay the bonuses up front?

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1932

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How many veterans went to Washington to protest to the government

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20,000

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What did the bonus army do opposite the White House

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They set up a Hooverville

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Who did Hoover call in to deal with the veterans (two forces)

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Police, then army

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How did troops clear out the Bonus Army from the camp? (What they did and what they did after)

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Used tanks and tear gas to clear out

Set fire to tents and shelters

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How many veterans were killed and injured from the violent government clear out?

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Two died

Nearly a thousand others injured

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What was the result of hoover’s actions?

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He became even more unpopular

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What did the USA not have, unlike Britain, in terms of help

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They did not have a social security system which would pay unemployment benefit to the jobless

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What did some towns and cities do in terms of help (charity) and what did this provide

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Set up their own public relief programmes which provided temp homes, food, clothes and jobs

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Give an example of a charity which ran private charities

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The salvation army

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Who was a wealthy individual who gave help to the unemployed and poor? And where did this person do it

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Al Capone provided food in Chicago

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What did charities set up for hunger relief (3)

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Soup kitchens
Bread kitchens
Cheap food centres

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What were breadlines

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Long lines of men and women queuing for free bread and soup

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What was a famous song that summed up the mood of Americans during the depression?

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‘Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime?’

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What was a result of unemployment in the towns on farmers?

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They sold less of their produce

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What was a result of farm produce falling so much

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It was nonprofitable to harvest crops.

Wheat was left to rot in the fields and farmers went bankrupt

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What was another problem that hit some farmers in the 1930s

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The dust bowl

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During the First World War what did some states in the south and the midwest such as (give 2) resulted in farmers moving from which type of farming to watch type of farming

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Oklahoma and Kansas

Moved from cattle farming to growing crops and this was the demand at the time

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What was the result of crop growing being continued in the 1920s

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The land was being over farmed, and the soil was damaged

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When did the drought hit America

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In the years after the 1930s

39
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How did land become like a desert

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Strong winds and low rainfall turned the topsoil into dust

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What was the result of the dustbowl

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Thousand and farmers were ruined. Left with no choice but to abandon farms and look for work elsewhere. Many drifted to California-fruit farms
–> migrant workers

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When was the Empire State building opened

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1931

42
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When was the Hoover Dam opened

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1936

43
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When was the golden gate bridge opened

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1937

44
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What three new products were introduced in 1938

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Nylons, nonstick pans and fibreglass

45
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When were the first television channels established

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1939

46
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In 1928 how many passengers could American Airlines Carry

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48,000

47
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In 1938 how many passengers could American Airlines Carry

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1.1 million

48
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How did the sale of beer boom in the 1930s

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Introduction of new cans

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