~ 15 million Americans + (one-quarter of the workforce) became unemployed 
 

~ 50 percent of blacks were unemployed

 
~ Percent women working increased slightly

~ Children leave school to look for work or migrate 
 

~ Dust bowl area migrants cross the country to search for work  
 

~ Loss of faith in banking system 
 

~ Loss of faith in government 
 

~ Hunger and Homelessness  

The New Deal

"I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people” 
 
 

The government’s solution to ending the Depression under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the New Deal contained social programs aimed at getting the unemployed working and spending money to drive back up the economy.  
 

Banking reform laws

Emergency relief programs

Work relief programs

Agricultural programs 

Vocabulary

"Hoover flag"  
 

Shantytowns 
 

"Hoovervilles" 
 

New Deal and its programs 
 

Hoover 
 

Federal Reserve Board 
 

Roosevelt 
 

Black Tuesday 
 

Dust bowl 
 

Gold Standard 
 

Migrant 
 

Bank holiday 
 

SOL

US History 1877 to Present: Identifying the causes of he Great Depression, its impact on Americans, and he major features of FDR’s New Deal