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The Impact of the Great Depression on Family Life in America

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The Great Depression profoundly affected family life in America, with staggering unemployment rates peaking at 50% in cities like Chicago. Families faced dire economic challenges, leading to diminished wages and reduced working hours. Many individuals turned to selling fruit or lining up in breadlines for sustenance. In rural areas, farmers struggled with plummeting prices and unsold crops, forcing many into poverty. As economic stressors surged, marriage and birth rates declined, while increased suicide rates reflected the psychological toll on families unable to provide for their loved ones.

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The Impact of the Great Depression on Family Life in America

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  1. Do Now. • How do you think the Great Depression affected family life? • What major changes did the majority of Americans face?

  2. Daily Life During the Great Depression Chapter 21 Section 2

  3. Daily Life During the Depression • Workers face staggering unemployment rates • 15 million unemployed (1933) • 50% of workforce out of work in Chicago/80% in Toledo • Wages fall for those employed • Decreased hours—sometimes one day per week • How would this impact family life?

  4. Urban Life • People standing on corners selling fruit or outside factories/docks looking for work • Fighting over garbage • Breadlines • Bowls of soup/bread given out by charitable organizations (Red Cross) • Poor diets cause health problems for adults and children • Shantytowns—the homeless form these outside major cities (p. 722)

  5. Agrarian Live • Demand for farm products shrinks as city dwellers buy less • Prices fall • Farmers are unable to sell all of what they produce • Forced to let crops rot and slaughter livestock • Small farms/tenant farms put out of business • Mexican nationals and Mexican American citizens forced to Mexico

  6. Family Life • Relatives double-up house holds, young adults move back home • Marriage rate declines • Birthrate declines • Why are less people marrying?

  7. Psychological/Sociological Impact • Suicide rate increases by 28% (20,000 people in 1932) • Many wealthy and middle class couldn’t handle being poor • People could not provide for their families • Parents could not feed their children • How can this cause people to feel guilty? • Movies (with sound) become popular—gangster movies depicting struggle

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