Reshaping+American+Life

//Students examine the 1930s in light of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, which helped provide work for artists during the Great Depression. What messages did the government hope to disseminate through works of art in public places? What does propaganda look like today?//


 * Key points:**
 * The **stock market crash of 1929** began the world's plunge into economic depression
 * **President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's** reaction to the crisis is one that was debated heavily in his time and is still discussed today.
 * Institutions like Social Security and our strength, WPA are products of the **New Deal** and were hotly debated, but produced many of the artworks that still hang in our post offices and other government buildings today.
 * Economic depression is stressed and the **massive unemployment**, at one point reaching 1 in 4 Americans, crippled the dream many had begun to realize during the roaring twenties.
 * The **Dust Bowl** was a result of a number of unfortunate circumstances. Massive amounts of hearty praire grass were turned for farming and as prices for grain dropped and the ground began to dry out, the entire country's midsection became a dust bowl.
 * The **"Okies"** mass migration west, often to California, became significant.

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