Great Depression: The U.S.

Question 1

One Examples of how the Depression affected the lives of URBAN white working-class Americans

Answer 1

• Wages cuts
• Laid off
  Went to:
• soup kitchens or bread lines
• Hoovervilles
• Migrant work (constantly moving around looking for jobs)

Question 2

One example of how the Depression affected the lives of RURAL African-Americans

Answer 2

• Sharecropping or tenant farmers weren’t really helped out very much
• Moved to cities
• Women became entrepreneurs
• Many moved to migrant work

Question 3

What was the “repatriation” program, and who did it affect?

Answer 3

• When Mexicans were forcefully deported back to Mexico

- Opened up more jobs for the market

Question 4

Social Security Act

Answer 4

Old, and or Disabled people would be supported financially.
The point was to help out the people that couldn’t support themselves, and got the people that were 65 or above to give the work to the young people