HW: STUDY FOR QUIZ ON THURSDAY. See below for notes that we went over in class. Study review sheet and handouts that were given out.
After the Great Depression
-15 million people were unemployed
-Millions of acres of farmland became useless, and hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes; to become migrant workers.
-They traveled to California and other states, where they found economic conditions little better than those they had left. Owning no land, many traveled from farm to farm picking fruit and other crops at starvation wages.
-The Republican Party was blamed for this (Many people wanted to get rid of President Hoover 1929 – 1933). Homeless people built shantytowns or ‘Hoovervilles’ in mockery of the President who did not offer much aid.
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