This document is a chapter from a textbook about the Great Depression. It is divided into multiple sections that discuss: the onset of the Depression including the stock market crash; the impact on different groups like African Americans, women, and artists; President Hoover's unsuccessful efforts to address the crisis; and Franklin Roosevelt's election in 1932 amid a worsening economy and banking collapse. The chapter examines the Depression's causes, social and cultural consequences, and the political changes it brought about.

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 The Coming of the Depression
 Soaring Stock Market

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 The Coming of the Depression
 The Great Crash
 “Black Tuesday”

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 The Coming of the Depression
 Causes of the Depression
 Poor Economic Diversification
 Uneven Distribution of Wealth
 International Debt Structure
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 The Coming of the Depression
 Progress of the Depression
 Banking Crisis
 Plunging GNP
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The Unemployed, 1930

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 The American People in Hard Times
 Unemployment and Relief
 “Dust Bowl”
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 The American People in Hard Times
 African Americans and the Depression
 Soaring Black Unemployment
 “Scottsboro Boys”
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 The American People in Hard Times
 Hispanics and Asians in Depression America
 Hispanic Resistance
 Asians Marginalized
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 The American People in Hard Times
 Women and Families
in the Great Depression
 Growing Female
Employment
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Women in the Paid
Workforce, 1900-1940

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 The American People in Hard Times
 Women and Families in the Great
Depression
 Growing Female Employment
 Declining Marriage and Birth Rates
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Farm Family in Indiana
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 The Depression and American Culture
 Depression Values
 Prevailing Values Reinforced
 Dale Carnegie
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“You can make more friends in two months by becoming
interested in other people than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.”
- Dale Carnegie

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 The Depression and American Culture
 Artists and Intellectuals in the Great
Depression
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 The Depression and American Culture
 Radio
 Radio’s Mass Popularity
 Escapist Programming
Depression Era Radio
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 The Depression and American Culture
 The Movies
 Hollywood’s Self-Censorship
 Frank Capra
 Walt Disney
Man in front of movie
theater, Waco, Texas
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 The Depression and American Culture
 Popular Literature and Journalism
 John Dos Passos
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"Individuality is freedom lived.“
- John Dos
Passos

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 The Depression and American Culture
 The Popular Front and the Left
 Abraham Lincoln Brigade
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“Communism is twentieth century Americanism.”
- Earl Browder

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 The Depression and American Culture
 The Popular Front and the Left
 Abraham Lincoln Brigade
 Southern Tenant Farmer’s Union
 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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 The Depression and American Culture
 The Popular Front and the Left
 Abraham Lincoln Brigade
 Southern Tenant Farmer’s Union
 Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
 The Grapes of Wrath
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“I'll be all around in the
dark. I'll be everywhere,
wherever you can look.”
- Tom Joad

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 The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover
 The Hoover Program
 Failure of Voluntary
Cooperation
Herbert Hoover
(Library of Congress)
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 The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover
 The Hoover Program
 Failure of Voluntary Cooperation
 Agricultural Marketing Act
 International Economic Collapse
 Failure of the RFC
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 The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover
 Popular Protest
 Farmer’s Holiday Association
Hooverville. Portland, Oregon
(Library of Congress)
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 The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover
 Popular Protest
 Farmer’s Holiday Association
 Demise of the “Bonus Army”
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 The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover
 The Election of 1932
 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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The Election of 1932

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 The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover
 The Election of 1932
 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
 FDR Elected
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The Changing of the
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 The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover
 The “Interregnum”
 Banking Collapse
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
(Library of Congress)
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 Debating the Past:
Causes of the Great Depression
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 America in the World:
The Global Depression
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