Life during the Great Depression Flashcards
1
Q
What are the aspects of life during the Great Depression?
A
- Dustbowl
- Hunger
- Women (jobs)
- Teenagers
- Homelessness
2
Q
Dustbowl
A
- Midwest
- severe drought
- bad farming practices
- caused migration of people to the West
- 2.5 million people
3
Q
Hungry?
A
Soup Kitchens
4
Q
Homelessness
A
Hoovervilles
5
Q
Women (jobs)
A
Women first lost jobs to employ men
-Children went to work for pennies
6
Q
Tennagers
A
Teenagers left home
-jumped trains to look for work elsewhere
7
Q
CIO
A
Congress of Industrial Organizations
1938 labor unions begun by John L. Lewis to include unskilled workers, minorities and women (unlike AFL)
8
Q
sit-down strike
A
a strike used in the labor movement in the 1930s in which striking workers remained idle inside a plant
