Chapter 25
The Great Depression
Ch. 25
Imagine what you would feel like if you suddenly
found out that all your family’s savings and
investments were gone, and that your parents’
jobs were gone as well. How would you feel? If you
were a parent in the situation, what explanation
would you give your children?
Ch. 25
Rich or poor, most Americans have homes and
possessions, and take for granted the hundreds of big
and little conveniences having a home gives them.
Imagine NOT having a home and being limited in your
possessions to what you can carry with you. Make a
list of things you would take with you if you had to
migrate on a daily basis, in a car with your family.
Ch. 25
During the first year that FDR was president, what
problem did he tackle first and why did he target
this problem?
Ch. 25
You have been living in “Hooverville’s” all week,
how has it made you feel? Explain your answer as
if you did have to live on the streets during the
Great Depression.
Depression Math
 1. Fact: In the US in 1930, over 60,000 workers were losing there jobs every week
 At that rate… how many workers would lose their jobs in 24 weeks.
 2. Fact: Dust Bowl migration was the largest migration of people in US history. Over one
million people from OK, TX, AR, and MO moved to CA.
 If an equal number of people from each state moved to CA… How many came from
each state?
 3. Fact: Okies were paid 25 cents an hour to pick cotton. The average field hand worked
16 hours per day, 7 days a week
 How much would a field hand earn in one week?
 4. Fact: By 1932 at least one out of four, or approximately 12 million people was
unemployed
 How many people were employed?
 5. Fact: By 1931 the nation’s unemployment figure was a staggering 13.6 million – this
represented 1/3 of the workforce
 What was the total number of the employment force?