the Great depression - ADD HOOVER

unemployment in 1929

3.2% of population

unemployment in 1933

24.9% of the population

wheat prices per bushel in 1929

$2.45

wheat prices per bushel 1933

$0.62

economic growth fell from 1929-32 %

13.3%

bank failures in 1929

599

bank failures in 1932

3,927

‘the dust bowl’ - impact on farmers

poor farming methods exhausted the soil, turning it to dust - wind caused dust storms in Oklahoma, Kansas, colorado, New Mexico

no. of farmers fleeing their homes due to dust bowls

1million - moved to the West Coast instead, often met with resentment

novel that captured the experience of ‘the Okies’

John Steinbeck’s ‘the Grapes of Wrath’ published 1939

fraction of the workforce unemployed by 1933

1/3

no. of homeless in the cities by 1932

approx 2million

no of lynchings in 1932

8

no. of lynchings in 1933

28