Rural and Urban Life During the Great Depression
Can you remember what life was like during the Depression for those who lived in the country and in the city?
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- Another word for chaos; when a financial situation is so bad it causes great stress and financial hardship.
- Buying and selling that goes on in a town or small area.
- When workers are dismissed from a business because the business can no longer pay them. If the business earns money, the workers come back.
- When a bank takes back ownership of a piece of land or home because the borrower can no longer pay the mortgage.
- Farmers experienced this because they could no longer make a living wage and there seemed no way to fix it.
- Author of The New Deal.
- FDR's actual name.
- Taking out a loan of several hundred-thousand dollars to purchase property or a home.
- Individuals bring whatever money they have together to pay for something they can not buy on their own.
- Men would line up for blocks to get a meal here.
- Hobos might jump in a railroad car to get from one place to another for free.
- Young men who travelled the country looking for food, shelter, and temporary work.
- African-Americans were unfairly required to take these in order to vote.
- The KKK used this as a way to terrorize African-Americans in the South during the 1920-30s.
- Millions of African-Americans participated in this mass exodus from the south to norther states in search of a better life.
- The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (initials)
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