End of the great depression

1. Beginning of the end
… for the Great Depression

2. The Dust Bowl
• Not only was the economy suffering but the 1930’s was also a
time of a great natural disaster
• Farmers have been making use of the Great Plains since the
1870’s overusing the soil and exhausting the underground
water supply
• The soil eventually turned into dust and as a regrettable
coincidence a series of droughts plus heavy winds created the
enormous catastrophe known as the Dust Bowl

3. Dust Bowl Contd.
• Heavy winds carried the dust away in huge clouds that darkened
the sky for mile, turning the Great Plains into a giant “Dust Bowl”
• Many farmers in Oklahoma and elsewhere often abandoned their
land

4. President Hoover
• President Herbert Hoover rejected demands for jhefederal
government to provide direct payments to the unemployed
and needy
• Hoover believed that when prices fell low enough, people
would reume buying and employment would increase
• Americans found Hoover’s inability to end the Great
Depression frustrating
• Shanty towns of the homeless and umemplohed were
sarastically called hoovervilles

6. The New Deal
• Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Hoover in the presidential
election of 1932
• Made a promise called the “New Deal” to get America out of
the Great Depression
• Created many government programs to get involved and
focused on poverty
• Goal was to provide
• Relief
• Immediate “emergency” jobs provided by the government
• Recovery
• Tried to make Americans spend again
• Reform
• Long term efforts to avoid another “Great Depression”

7. Relief **Do NOT Write**
• The Works Progress Administration (WPA)
created many jobs. One of the WPA’s most
enduring legacies is the art that it
commissioned. Much WPA art was used to
decorate public places, such as post offices
and government buildings. This mural by
William Gropper shows the building of a
dam.

8. WPA
• This mural by William Gropper shows the building of a dam.

9. The New Deal changed the
Role of the Government
• Restored confidence in the Stock Market and Bank systems
• The government now establishes itself as being responsible
for the nations economy
• Even today the effects of the New Deal still are relevant today

10. Of the following New Deal programs, which
one do you think affects your life the most?
FDIC SOCIAL SECURITY ACT
• Insured bank deposits so • Provided workers with
that, people would not unemployment
lose their savings if a insurance, old age
bank failed pensions, and insurance
for their families if they
died young.