Life during the Great Depression Flashcards

1
Q

What are the aspects of life during the Great Depression?

A
  • Dustbowl
  • Hunger
  • Women (jobs)
  • Teenagers
  • Homelessness
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Dustbowl

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  • Midwest
  • severe drought
  • bad farming practices
  • caused migration of people to the West
  • 2.5 million people
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3
Q

Hungry?

A

Soup Kitchens

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4
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Homelessness

A

Hoovervilles

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5
Q

Women (jobs)

A

Women first lost jobs to employ men

-Children went to work for pennies

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6
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Tennagers

A

Teenagers left home

-jumped trains to look for work elsewhere

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7
Q

CIO

A

Congress of Industrial Organizations

1938 labor unions begun by John L. Lewis to include unskilled workers, minorities and women (unlike AFL)

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8
Q

sit-down strike

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a strike used in the labor movement in the 1930s in which striking workers remained idle inside a plant

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