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22-2 Notes. Life During the Depression. I. The Depression Worsens. A. Bank/Business Failures & Unemployment. 9,000 banks close by 1933 30,000 businesses close in 1932 alone 1933: 25% unemployment (12 million) Family income drops from $2,500 in 1929 to $1,600 in 1932.
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22-2 Notes Life During the Depression
A. Bank/Business Failures & Unemployment • 9,000 banks close by 1933 • 30,000 businesses close in 1932 alone • 1933: 25% unemployment (12 million) • Family income drops from $2,500 in 1929 to $1,600 in 1932
C. Hoovervilles & Hobos • People can’t pay rent/mortgages • People evicted from apts. & homes • Shantytowns built in & around cities • Named Hoovervilles b/c they blame Hoover • Hobos rode trains illegally to search for work
D. The Dust Bowl • Central Plains (TX to ND) • Farmers had plowed-under grassland to plant wheat, corn, etc. • Poor farming methods • Massive drought in early 1930s • Topsoil dries up and blows away • Farmers lose farms and move away (CA)
A. Movies • 60-90 million go to the movies weekly • Comedies: Groucho Marx • Sex Symbols: Marlene Dietrich & Greta Garbo • Walt Disney: Snow White • Wizard of Oz • Gone with the Wind • Movies provide a temporary escape
B. Radio • News • Comedy: Jack Benny, Burns & Allen • Lone Ranger • Soap Operas start on radio: Guiding Light • Everyone listened to the radio • Also provided a temporary escape from the harsh conditions of the Depression
A. Regionalist School of Art • Thomas Hart Benton • Grant Wood, “American Gothic” • Focused on the lives of people in the rural South and Midwest
B. Writers • John Steinbeck: “Grapes of Wrath” • William Faulkner: “Sound and the Fury” a. Written in “stream of consciousness” b. Shows hidden attitudes of poor Southern whites and African Americans
C. Photography • Dorothea Lange-showed life in America during the Depression, especially in the Dust Bowl (famous picture) • Margaret Bourke-White-showed harsh images of drought in the Depression • Life magazine created in 1936-pictures and stories of ordinary Americans