For our assigned blog we got assigned certain questions. i got numbers 15 and 16.
Each student will be assigned one of the following topics:
1. Causes of the Stock Market Crash : -busimesses loose money and fail - banks fail - savings are wiped out - businesses lay off workers - unempolyment riases - people stop spending - great depression sets in - depression started in the world everywhere
2. Causes of the Great Depression - people stop buying things because they run out of money. - so companies loose money - companies lay off people. - people cant get money with out job. - less people less jobs. - more companies loose money. - Repeat. New Deal: giving money to companies to try to higher people to try and get economy back. Over production. banks that didnt fail wouldnt give out loans. so then businesses would fail high tax on imported goods.
Plus one of these topics:
1. 1928 Election(466) Hoover (R) Vs. Smith (D) - Hoover - Smith *WON *against prohibition. *it was time for change. He was R. * Catholic *
2. Stock Market in the 1920's(466-468) - rose alot. - Dow Jones : 30 biggest companies indicators.
3. Story of the stock market crash-not the causes(467-469)
4. Banks and business' collapse(469)
5. Effect stock market crash had on other countries(469-471)
6. Depression in the cities(472-473)
7. Depression in the rural areas(473)
8. Dust Bowl(474)
9. Men in the Streets(475)
10. Women struggle to survive(475-476)
11. Children suffer hardships(476)
12. Social and psychological effects(477)
13. Hoover's background
14. Hoover's philosophy/Cautious steps(479)
15. Boulder Dam(480)-
* The dam is on the Colorado river.
* The dam would generate electricity and gain profit for using that energy.
* Hoover used that profit to construct the dam.
* It gained approval from congress in 1928 as public works program for $700 million.
* Boulder Dam soon became called Hoover Dam because Hoover helped out so much with it and authorized the construction of the dam.
* 726 ft high & 1,244 ft long.
* It wasthe worlds tallest dam and the second largest.
* Hoover Dam supplies a lot of goods for the world. Like flood control, providing electricity and regulating water which allowed growth for agriculture. Now days the dam helps provide water for cities in lA and Las Vegas.
16. Democrats win 1930 Congressional elections(480) -
* Everyone seemed to turn against Hoover.
* More seats in congress became Democratic.
* Republicans lost the election and lost the control of the House of Representives.
* The depression caused a lot of angry in every body and so the people refused to work and produce product. example.) farmers started throwing goods on highway instead of selling it for loss.
* They hoped that food shortages would raiseso the prices would raise.
* People started to call the very depressedtowns hoovervilles. it was a bad comment towards hoover. Hoover blankets and hoover flags. People were going against Hoover completely because they blamed him for the depresssion but it wasnt reallly his fault he just happenedto be president.
My sources:
*the book "The Americans"
*http://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_1930
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