The document summarizes the key effects of the Great Depression in the United States, including widespread bank failures, high unemployment that led to homelessness and bread lines, the formation of shanty towns known as Hoovervilles, the environmental disaster of the Dust Bowl that caused migration, and how both urban and rural communities were impacted by the economic downturn. Photographs provide visual evidence of these effects.

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Ms. Richardson
Effects of the Great
Depression

2. 1920s Economic Boom BUT… Problems DEPRESSION
• mass
production
• new consumer
products
• “bull” market
• overproductio
n
• credit buying
• stocks bought
“on margin”
• unequal
prosperity
• businesses
can’t pay
debt
• stock market
crashes
• “bank runs”
• people lose
their savings
• businesses
fail
• unemployme

3. Unemployed men on a bread line in Chicago, 1931
(photographer unknown).

4. A Hooverville in Central Park, 1932 (photographer unknown).

5. A bank run in New York, 1931 (photographer unknown).

6. Bank Runs
“Farmer and Son walking in the face of a dust storm,” 1936 Cimmaron
County, Oklahoma (photographer Arthur Rothstein).

7. “A Migrant Family in California’s agricultural region March,
1935” (photographer Dorothea Lange).

8. “Jobless Men Keep Going”
(Photo by John E Allen).

9. “Forgotten Women,” unemployed and single, in job demand
parade” (Telegram staff photo, 1933).

10. Effects of the Great Depression
• bank failures
• unemployment
• homelessness
• bread lines
• Hoovervilles
• Dust Bowl
• migration
• Okies
- The Depression
affected both
urban & rural
communities.