Feb. 19th - Feb. 23rd

[6Hannah]

Monday
• I wasn’t in school/ no school because snow day
Tuesday
• I wasn’t in school
Wednesday
• Talking about protesting
• Test tomorrow
• Going over the information/ PowerPoint
• Senator Huey Long, senator from Louisiana
o “Every man a king”
o Share-our-wealth
 Cap personal fortunes at $50 million each- equivalent to about $600 million today (later reduced to $5-$8 million, or $60- $96 million today)
 Limit annual income to one million dollars each
• (about $12 million today)
 Limit inheritances to five million dollars each
• (about $60 million today)
• Guarantee every family an annual income of $2,000 (or one-third the national average)
• Free college education and vocational training
• Old-age pensions for all persons over 60
• Veterans benefits and healthcare
• A 30 hour work week
• A four week vacation for every worker
• 2nd New Deal (1935,36,37)
o Pass new labor laws
o Create and expand New Deal agencies
o Establish Social Security for older people and unemployed
• Eleanor Roosevelt
o Was one of the 1st ones in women rights
o Helped her husband/the president
Thursday
• Test part 1
Friday
• Mrs. Svendsen was in class