How The Great Depression Affected the South

1. How The Great Depression Affected the South

2. Basic Outline With a generic title • Challenges: • Losing jobs • Getting farms taken • Low food supply Relevant Legislations: Tennessee Valley Authority Civilian Conservation Corps Agricultural Adjustment Act Changes Made: The TVA helped people get low-cost electricity Farms became more successful

3. Most people lost their jobs Unemployed A hard working mechanic Fired Successful Manager An ok chef Still ok at cooking but no longer being paid for it

4. All your farmz are belong to us Farms would be taken as well

5. Food was limited and hard to come by. NO African Americans especially, had this happen and would be rejected to get food even while Whites were getting some.

6. Tennessee Valley Authority • Tackled important problems facing the valley, such as: • Flooding • Providing electricity to homes • and businesses • Replanting forests • Other TVA responsibilities written in the act included: • Improving travel on the Tennessee River • Helping develop the region’s business and farming. Source: http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=65

7. Sources: http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1586.html & Wikipedia for the Image The CCC Here is a pillowcase Helped out unmarried, unemployed men Gave them unskilled labors relating to conservation and development of natural resources CCC projects included: • more than 3,470 fire towers erected; • 97,000 miles of fire roads built; • Fighting fires; • more than 3 billion trees planted; • more than 84,400,000 acres of good agricultural • land receive manmade drainage systems; • Indian enrollees do much of that work; • 1,240,000 man-days of emergency work completed • during floods of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys; • disease and insect control; • forest recreation development — campgrounds built, complete with picnic shelters, swimming pools, fireplaces, and restrooms.

8. Agricultural Adjustment Act • Restricted agricultural production – for a good cause; • Payed farmers to not plant part of their land • Kill off excess livestock No cool pictures this time so here is a watermelon Why? You may or may not say. That’ll be $63.99 Reduced Crop Surplus = Less Crops = More Demand = Higher Valued = More Goodness Money given to farmers was called Subsidies and those were given through an exclusive tax on companies which processed farm products At first this act was labeled as unconstitutional but was later fixe in 1938 where the Federal Government would give the money Sources: http://www.freeuniv.com/lect/rankin/Unit7B.htm And Wikipedia, I admit it.

9. Sources: http://www.ccclegacy.org/ http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=65 So what changes were made in the South? Why did any of these matter? Why should we care??!???!1one The most dramatic change in Valley life came from the electricity generated by TVA dams. Electric lights and modern appliances made life easier and farms more productive. Electricity also drew industries to the region, providing desperately needed jobs. The CCC is recognized as the single greatest conservation program in America.  The work of America's young men dramatically changed the future and today we still enjoy a legacy of natural resource treasures that dot the American landscape BAM! You should care because your grade depends on it *cough And reasons

10. Yeah that’s it. Or IS it?

11. Oh! And most of the images were taken from Google Images around the internet