Chicago History. Bell Ringer Analyze each political cartoon Explain the similarities and differences between them. How are the rich and poor portrayed?

Chicago History

Bell Ringer Analyze each

political cartoon

Explain the similarities and differences between them.

How are the rich and poor portrayed?

What was the New Deal? A series of economic

programs passed by Congress between 1933-1936.

Focused on the 3 R’s Relief

For unemployed and poor Civilian Conservation

Corp Recovery

Of the economy WPA and PWA

Reform To prevent another

depression. FDIC and SS

“Recovery” in New Deal Chicago

Works Progress Administration (WPA) Created 40,000 jobs

Public Works Administration (PWA)

Examples of projects Lake Shore Drive Lincoln Park State Street Subway 30 new public schools and

parks 3 public housing projects Enlarging of Midway

Airport Murals and Writing Projects

Lincoln Park 1938

Lincoln Park 1948 and Now

Lane Tech Murals

It gave the government too much power. Chicago Machine Politics

It did not do enough. A lot of people were still

unemployed. Government programs

were only for a chosen few.

It did not end the depression. Government spending

did not necessarily mean relief for everyone.

World War II

1933-1934 Century of Progress Exposition

Celebrated Chicago’s 100th Birthday and scientific progress.

39 million visitors 427 acres of artificially

created lakeshore land Northerly Island (Meigs

Field) Attractions

82 miles of exhibits 200 ft tall thermometer African Diamond Mine Dinosaur Bones Sally Rand’s Famous Fan

Dance Created many jobs for

people in Chicago

Depression Era Outlaws?

John Dillinger A bank robber and public enemy #1 Killed outside the Biograph Theater in Chicago on July 22, 1934. Dillinger was a hero to people as he was known to destroy mortgage

papers. Memorial Day Massacre in 1937

10 steel strikers were killed by the police, while 30 other were wounded.

What was the New Deal? What two government agencies tried to

help Chicagoans out of the depression? Give two examples of projects funded by these agencies.

Was the New Deal a good or a bad thing for Americans? EXPLAIN!

Why might Depression Era “outlaws” be considered heroes?