The Great Depression:

I. Intro
A. Origins:
1. stock market speculation/The Great Crash
Black Tuesday: October 29, 1929
(stock value: 87-55 billion)
2. Farm Depression
3. Worldwide depression
4. Bad Policy: Hawley-Smoot Tariff

B. Impact of the Depression:
1) morally
2) economically
3) emotionally

II. What Did it do to people?
A) Work:
B) Savings:
C) Housing:
D) Eating:

III. How did people deal with it?

A. BY MAKING FEWER PEOPLE:
B. BY HELPING OUT:
C. BY MOVING:
1. . Okies:
2. African-American migration
3. Mexican-American
D. PSYCHOLOGICALLY:
1. Suicide:
2. Nervous breakdowns:
3. Blaming themselves
4. Blaming others:
a) Hoover and other politicians:
b) business interests:
c) women:
d) Mexican-Americans:
e) blacks:

HERE’S A DEEP QUESTION TO PONDER:
Does poverty cause discrimination, discrimination cause poverty, or is there no relationship between the two?

IV. No Single Great Depression Experience:
1. very wealthy
2. Pre-Depression Poor:
3. Middle-class/young middle class:


V. Why Important?