Moudle 9 lesson 2
How did Emotional Health effect the Great Depression?
Being Jobless made people depressed. Many people lost their will to survive. Between 1928 and 1932,the sucide rate rose more than 30 percent.
How did Physical Health effect the Great Depression?
Children also suffered during the 1930s. Milk consumption declined across the country and hospitals reported a dramatic rise in malnutrition and diet related,such as rikets.Adults stopped going to doctors because not afford it.
How did the Dust Bowl conditions in the Great Plains affect the entire country?
It affected the entire country because we depended on the farmers for farm production and they became unfaramble
How did Farming effect the Great Depression?
Life in rural areas was hard.With falling prices and rising debt though,thousands of farmers lost their land. Between 1929 and 1932 about 400,000 farms were lost through foreclosure. Many farmers turned to tenant farming and barely scraped out a living.
How did Family Life effect the Great Depression?
Some families couldn't see each other for a week,a month,a year,two years,3 years. Some men became so discouraged that they even stopped trying.Some even abandoned their families. women tried to survive but they couldn't.
In what ways did the Great Depression affect people's outlook and change how they saw the world?
Some people were unhappy and decied that they should give up on their like married,growing big familes,and having children
What is Direct Relief?
The giving of money or food by the gov't directly to needy people
What is a Bread line?
a line of people wating for free food
Shantytown
a neighborhood in which people live in a makeshift shacks
What is a soup kitchen?
a place where free or low-cost food is served to the needy
How did Race Relations effect the Great Depression?
became worse as white unemployed people took their anger and frustation out on African Americans and Lations
How did Housing effect the Great Depression?
people were evicted from their homes-they built shanty towns of shelters made of scraps or garbage-they called these neighborhoods or towns Hovervilles because they blamed Hoover.
What was the Dust Bowl?
the region including Texas,Oklahoma,Kansas,Colorado,and New Mexico that was made worthless for farming by drought and dust storms during the 1930s
How did employment effect the Great Depression?
unemployment went up and people lost their belongins and homes