A slideshow about the Great Depression by Mark Ebaugh and Truc Le.

1. By Mark Ebaugh and Truc Le
1929-1939

2.  Stock market crash on Black Tuesday, 1929
 Closure of the banks
 High unemployment rates (As high as 20%- one out of
every five people were jobless).
 The dust bowl in the early 1930s, for it caused a shortage
of agricultural produce, as well as making life difficult in
the south.
 Herbert Hoover’s
granting of false hope to
the American people.

3.  People frantically retrieving their money from the banks,
but the banks did not have all the people’s money, called
the Bank Run.
 Large amounts of deflation due to unemployment; the less
people had money, so the worth of every dollar increased
dramatically.
 Increased suicides due to depression.
 Increased national hunger due to job loss.
 National loss of jobs.
 Decrease in commerce and overall welfare.

4.  President Franklin Roosevelt created the New Deal to improve
the economy during the Great Depression.
 Series of programs and experiments to restore prosperity to
America
 Stop people from withdrawing money from the shaky banks
for four days
 Making it legal for Americans to buy beer
 Laborers are able to bargain for higher wages and better
working conditions
 The New Deal brought the Government directly in economic
affairs

5.  The global economy suffered along with America’s, for
America was a very important participant in the commerce
of the world at the time.
 The Great Depression’s timing varied across the world, but
most started around 1930 and lasted until the late
1930s/early 1940s.

6. Information Sources:
 Digital History. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Apr. 2014.
<http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraid=14&smtid=1>.
 "The Great Depression (1929-1939)." The Great Depression (1929-
1939). N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Apr. 2014.
<http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/great-
depression.cfm>.
 PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 5 Apr. 2014.
<http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-
article/dustbowl-great-depression/>.
Picture Sources:
 http://www.balkanplumbing.com/media/stock-market-crash-
1929.jpg
 http://blogs.cas.suffolk.edu/history182/files/2013/03/second-
great-depression.jpg
 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Lange-
MigrantMother02.jpg
 https://depts.washington.edu/depress/images/hoovervilles/hoovervi
lle3.jpg