1. Your Creative Assignment Carefully examine the pictures from the powerpoint. Choose at least one specific picture to inspire you to write one of the following • 1. a poem about the great depression OR • 2. a series of diary entries including dates and details about what it would be like to live during this time. OR • 3. a live action radio news broadcast of one the events ( may include interview with bystanders) Submit your entry through quia.com/web While you don’t have to tell me which picture(S) I should be able to tell through your entry

3. As the depression worsened, private charitable efforts to deal with the economic distress were unable to cope with the size of the problem of unemployed, hungry, and homeless. Here a soup line in New York City winds around the block. For every five cents (which could be donated by passersby), a person would be given a bowl of soup

4. Two hoboes. These non-paying "passengers" found riding the rails to be an inexpensive, if sometimes dangerous, means of travel. They rode in empty freight cars, or underneath the cars. This way of travel became common for many Californians during the Great Depression.

6. An Oklahoma family camping by the roadside at Blythe, 1936. Many farm families came to California in the 1930s. They were from the cotton-growing regions of Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas. The long drought there had caused great troubles for those families. Other factors also pushed them off the land. Many of them were tenant or sharecropping farmers. They worked land owned by someone else, in exchange for a part of the crop. When crop prices began to drop, the government paid farmers not to grow crops. That was done in an attempt to increase prices. But many landowners did not share the subsidies with their tenant farmers. Also, new farm machines made it possible for the landowners to work the land themselves, or with fewer workers. Photo by Dorothea Lange.

7. A billboard on U.S. Highway 99 in California. It was part of a national advertising campaign sponsored by the National Association of Manufacturers. Migrants and job seekers who poured into California in the 1930s were hardly encouraged by this sign, or the association's advertising campaign. For them, the Depression made the dark side of the American Dream all too real. Photo by Dorothea Lange.

8. Gassing the Bonus Army • The Bonus army, a group of WWI veterans, marched to Washington in support of the Patman Bill which would give them their bonus (payment) early

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13. The Dust is coming..

14. A corn stalk withered by heat and drought. In the southwestern part of the U.S., the depression came at the same time as an environmental disaster. Farmers depended on rain to raise their crops. In 1931 a severe drought began. Crops died. Farm families who had no crops to sell were unable to pay their bills. Townspeople whose businesses served those families suffered as well. Since farmers had plowed the land to plant crops which could not grow, the bare ground was exposed to the sun. Windstorms blew huge clouds of dust from the fields. Photo by Arthur Rothstein.

15. When the veterans were gone, chased out by tear gas to join the ranks of the unemployed who were wandering the nation's railroads and highways, MacArthur ordered the burning of their temporary camp. • Many in the nation were outraged at this treatment of hungry former soldiers at a time when RFC funds were being spent to save large corporations and banks from bankruptcy. To many Americans it seemed that Hoover's government was more interested in saving the rich from discomfort than the poor from starvation.