1 / 11

Life During the Great Depression: Goals, Achievements, and Challenges in Rebuilding America

This text explores the impact of the Great Depression on American society, focusing on the Public Works Administration (PWA) and its objectives in rebuilding the nation's infrastructure. Highlighting iconic landmarks like Mount Rushmore, the Empire State Building, and the Golden Gate Bridge, it discusses the role of women entering the workforce, the challenges faced by African Americans during this era, and the profound effect of the Dust Bowl. It also touches on key legislation and figures, like Frances Perkins, as pivotal in shaping social security and labor rights.

gisela-little
Télécharger la présentation

Life During the Great Depression: Goals, Achievements, and Challenges in Rebuilding America

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Bell Work • Use your book; what was the PWA? what was the goal of the PWA? Complete sentences  • Page 341 • 2,3,5,7 • Complete sentences 

  2. Chapter 11 Section 3 Life During the Great Depression

  3. Rebuilding America • Mount Rushmore • Faces of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt (Teddy) • Empire State Building • Al Smith’s brain child • Built in ‘31 tallest building in the world until 1972 • Golden Great Bridge • Regulations

  4. Mount Rushmore

  5. Empire State Building

  6. Golden Gate Bridge

  7. Women to the Workforce • Families surviving off women's income • Cheap labor • Francs Perkins • First women to serve in presidential cabinet • Sewing, baking, canning of own vegetables

  8. Dust Bowl • Great Plains Area, Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado • Cleared land for wheat farming • Drought hits in 1931, winds blow soil • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2CiDaUYr90

  9. African-Americans and the Depression • 50% unemployment in the south • Lost farmers due to pricing, • Lost jobs due to low unemployment • Migrate to North • Little to no improvement on lifestyle • Unemployment is just under 50% • NAACP helps pass law to end discrimination in labor unions • 500,000 African Americans join • FDR’s Black Cabinet • African American work closely with the president • Ralph Bunche • Mary Bethune • Later starts Bethune-Cookman College Negatives Positives

  10. Fascism • Government by dictatorship • Individuals are second to the nation • Blames Jews, Communist and liberals for problems of ones country • Popular in Italy and Germany

  11. Bell Work • Define • Pension • Social Security Act • Welfare • FLSA

More Related