Take a handout on your way in and complete the FRONT of it. Turn in your Stock Assignments.

1. Hi • Take a handout on your way in and complete the FRONT of it. • Turn in your Stock Assignments. • “Should Have Seen it in Color” • Montgomery Gentry

2. Put it in your 401k after not putting any money in all year…

4. Learning Goal 8 • I will be able to: • Summarize how the Great Depression affected life during the 1930s • Identify the Dust Bowl • Explain how culture was affected by the Great Depression • Turn to page 94. • 1. Read the outline. • 2. Complete the activity at the bottom • 3. Complete the Guided Reading on both pages, answer the questions, circle what needs to be circled, and ignore the Challenge Activity. • 4. When done, turn to Need to Know List on page 96 and work on it.

5. 4.8 Hard times Dust Bowl Culture • Families split, suicides up, children quit school to get low paying jobs, businessmen begged for jobs or sold apples on the streets, breadlines – men in suits dignity • Minorities fired to give jobs to whites • Drought throughout decade on Great Plains • John Steinbeck – The Grapes of Wrath farmers moving to CA for work • Route 66 – pathway west, perceived as land of opportunity, but none there • Woody Guthrie – folk singer who “sang the Depression” • Lyrics summarized problems of the Depression • Swing music and movies took people’s minds off the problems when they could afford them • Works Progress Admin (WPA) – New Deal program; hired artists & musicians to entertain • The New Deal did NOT end the Great Depression, World War II did! Some say New Deal = made G. Dep WORSE!

8. Red Lipstick • There were two ways of thinking about this: • 1. Life for me may be horrible, but you’ll never know by looking at me! • 2. I’m holding on to that one last thing that makes me feel normal!

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16. GREAT DEPRESSION FACTS & FIGURES Average rate of death by suicide (per 100,000 population)1920-1928: 12.11929: 18.11930-1940: 15.4 Government Expenditures and Investments (in current dollars)Hoover Administration, 1929-1939in 1929: $9.4 billionin 1930: $10.0in 1931: $9.9in 1932: $8.7Roosevelt's New Dealin 1933: $8.7 billionin 1934: $10.5in 1935: $10.9in 1936: $13.1in 1937: $12.8in 1938: $13.8in 1939: $14.8 Unemployment During the Great DepressionAverage rate of unemploymentin 1929: 3.2%in 1930: 8.9%in 1931: 16.3%in 1932: 24.1%in 1933: 24.9%in 1934: 21.7%in 1935: 20.1%in 1936: 16.9%in 1937: 14.3%in 1938: 19.0%in 1939: 17.2%

38. Expanded size/role of government? Giving the government too much power? • Means allowing the government to make important decisions that affect our lives instead of allowing us to make those decisions ourselves. • Lunch policy in Chicago, pop law in New York City – government tells us what to eat or how much pop we can drink instead of us deciding ourselves. • Taxes – government takes money we earn and they spend it how they want to, instead of us spending it as we want to (tax dollars to support New Deal Programs instead of people spending or saving as they want) • Social Security - $200/month goes to a government run retirement program instead of us choosing what to do with that $200. • Some level of government involvement is NECESSARY! (Do we really want to allow people to choose to do drugs? Should we let people choose to commit violent acts?) The question is how much is too much?