Feb 6th-10th

Monday- 30's presentations begin today. finishing Bust Episode from Friday.

Tuesday- 30's presentations continued

Wednesday- NO SCHOOL

Thursday-30's presentations continued

Friday-30's presentations are all done

1.-Causes of the Great Depression

Depression: a long and severe recession in an economy or market
Causes of the Great Depression
Stock market crash-1929
Distribution of wealth around the U.s
Bank credit and loans
no guarentee from banks
Buying on the margin
weak/small bank firms (failed)
over 9,000 banks failed
14 billion dollars=194 billion dollars today
Vicious cycle
People have no money
people dont buy
Companies stop producing
Lay people off
people dont have any jobs
People have no money
Over producing
Car producing massively
Electric appliances
Drought conditions
dust bowl (dirty thirties)
1931-17 inches of rain
Low agricultural prices
Plowing
No cover crops
No wind buffers
Erosion

2.-Impact the Great Depression had on people and our country

Marriage and divorce
a lot less marriages
less divorces
Poor'mans divorce (husband leaves family without reason
Crime
Murder
Lynching
Prohibition
Suicide
Suicide rate
Only option
Schooling
Schools underfunded
Dropout rate high
Trian jumping
Dropouts
Moved to get jobs
Less burden on parents
Soup kitchens
Served food
Supplied to all
First privately sponsored
Government sponsored
Hoovervilles
named after president, b/c they didn't like him
Outside of inner cites
St. Lewis, New York, D.C
Housing
How people survived
Gardens
Livestock
Trading

3.-President Hoover’s attempt(or lack thereof) to help solve Great Depression

Agricultural marketing act
Stop crop prices from raising
Half a billion dollars to fund
Financial help for farmers
Reconstruction finance cooperation
Financial support for many businesses
Loans- banks, railroads, mortgage associations
It started to grow and helped to aid agriculture and financing
Was intended to be and independent non political agency
Smoot-Hawley tariff
Tariff- tax on imported goods
Raised prices on over 200,000 imported goods
didn't work since world trade was not good

4.-1932/1936 Presidential elections

FDR (1932) (D)
Herbert Hoover (1936) (R)
3rd party-socialist (Norman Thomas)
Started to come around during this time
Leftist party that had been created
Platform of FDR
The new deal
expansion of Federal Government
Regulation of banks
massive government spending
Create social services
Put people back to work
Platform of hoover
Raise taxes
Spend more
Raise tariffs
Block trade
Republicans did not like him
Thought he was too socialist
1936 election
FDR (D)
Alf Landon (R)
Platform of FDR (4 years later)
Protection of family and home
protect our people from the bad
Establishment of a democracy of opportunity for all people
Insuring the wealth of the people
Aid to those overtaken by disaster
Old age and social security
Veterans
Agriculture
Platform of Alf Landon
Moderate Progressive
Anti-FDR
Less government
Get rid of the new deal

5.-Bonus Army

An assembly of 43,000 some people most veterans
17,000 were WW1 veterans, families and affiliated groups
great depression made them desperate to get money
The congress came up with a certificate
The certificate was around $1.25 to $1.00 as a bonus
1.25 for every served overseas and 1.00 every served at home
They waited in camps outside of D.C for the bill to pass
The bill didn't pass
Tension rose even further
Hoover sent the military to escort them off the premises
The military used tear gas and destroyed the tents they had
The leader of the military group was Douglas MacArthur, five star general
Major Dwight D Eisenhower was also in the military group
The president said not to follow the group to the anacostia flats
MacArthur followed soon and afterwards a fire started with no one knowing who started it

6.-Entertainment, sports, music, radio, movies and fads

Championships (sports)Fifa world cup
Uruguay was host and won 4-2 against Argentina
World series
Philadelphia athletics won the series in the 6th game against the St. Lois cardinals
Superbowl (Football)
Green bay Packers beat the NY giants
Finals
Cleveland Rosenbloums won the finals (4-1)
Famous athletes
Jessie Owens
Track and field
Four time gold medalist
Lou Gehrig
First baseman for NY Yankees
"There is no room in baseball for discrimination It is our national pastime and a game for all
Charlie Conacher
Ice hockey
Forward for Toronto maple leafs, Detroit fan Red wings
New york Americans
on Jan ist 2017, in a ceremony prior to the centennial Classic, Conacher was part of the first group of players to be named one of the greatest NHL players
Music
Jazz music was very popular during the 30's
Shirley temple
Gene Autry
Billie holiday
Roy rogers
Bing Crosby
Radio
More than 40% of american households owned a radio
Live musical performance
Drama comedy acts, talk and educational shows came later
In large parts of the south, Midwest, and great plains, radio stations and sets were scarce
Popeye the sailor man
E.C Segar
Made his debut
Voiced by William Costello
Fads
Family game night
Goldfish swallowing
Stamp collecting
Reading

7.-Franklin Roosevelt’s background and accomplishments-Focus on New Deal

FDR was born on January 30 1892 into a wealthy family
He was an only child
He went Harvard but was a C student there
a few years after he went to Harvard he went to Columbia university law school
He never received a degree because he found it boring so he went into politics
Political start
In 1910 FDR was invited to run for a new york state senate
He ran as a democrat in an area that was primarily republican for the last 32 years
with the help of his last m=name he won the election
During his time elected he formed an an alliance with Louis Howe
In 1914 decided to run to for the US senate seat
He lacked white hose support
FDR made too many political enemies
He lost the election
accomplishments
As a president he passed the new deal which made tons of organization to help the economy
One of these groups were the works progress administration (WPA)
The WPA employed millions of unskilled men
The CCC was another group that employed unmarried men
NYA provided jobs for people 16-25
AAA payed farmers so that there wasn't a crop surplus

8.-The Three R’s

Overview: FDR pushed for the creation of new agencies to deal with the depression
Relief:these programs provided immediate aid to Americans
Recovery: these programs provided jobs to the unemployed w/o govt' assist
Reform: changed the way the government and businesses operated 'goal
Relief agencies: Civil works Administration- created jobs, Far security administration- helped farm families; financially, Federal emergency Relief Admin- gave loans to the states to operate relief programs
Recovery agencies: National recovery Admin- brought industry and government together to create codes of 'fair prices' and raise prices
Agricultural adjustment act- the purpose of was to reduce crop 'overload' and therefore effectively raise the price of crops
Federal housing admin- set standards for the construction and underwriting for building homes
Underwriting: sign and accept liability under an insurance policy, thus guaranteeing payment in case loss or damage occurs.
Reform agencies
Rural electrification admin- provided loans to install electricity
National labor relations act: protect the right of employees
Tennessee valley authority: provided navigation, flood control, electricity generation to the Tennessee Valley

9.-The difference between the First New Deal and Second New Deal

First deal
social security
The three R's
response to Great depression
Relief
Reform
Recovery
Second deal
Im prove use of natural resources
Security of old age
Unemployment and illness
Slum clearance
Work relief programs

10.-Fireside chats

During the great depression
1933-1944
30 speeches on advice on how to help people gain money or advice on what to do
Lasted as long as 10 minutes
Why?
Broadcasted on the radio
Sat next to the fire
Talked to the people about advice on the Great depression

11.-The Hundred Days

Beginning of FDR's presidency
ended the Great depression
March 9th-June 6th
FDR
Passed 15 bills known as the New deal
Ended the gold standard
National Bank Holiday
Civilian conservation act
Trump
remove 2 million illegal immigrants
Suspend immigrants from the middle east
Illegal immigration act-make a wall on the southern boarder

12.-Deficit spending and “priming the pump”

Refers to old fashioned water pump
which requires something to work properly
The government tried to stop spending in other areas
Tried to get more government programs for people affected by the great depression

13.-FDR vs the US Supreme Court-Court Packing issue

Election in 1936
After his landslide victory
He was frustrated
Roosevelt made a bold and perhaps miscalculated decisions
Private meeting with cabinet members and the senate Democratic Leadership
Roosevelt proposed his Court packing bill to circumvent the court's unfavorable rulings
His campaign was that the court was in complete charge of the who republican party
which was an instrument of laisezz-faire
He was targeting six of the nine justices supreme court justices
because they had challenged his domestic programs
FDR wanted 15 justices instead of 9
increased the court's efficiency
wanted to bring in new justices to balance out the opinion
He wanted some new 'life'
The court issued its first ruling on the New deal statue
Striking down the provision on the NRA
Imposed new control on production and pricing on oil

14.-Critics and failings of the New Deal-Long, Caughlin, Townshend

Created by FDR
to calm the GD
Increased gov't spending on projects
built bridges, highways and buildings
Employed people, spurred the economy
Critics
Father Charles E. Coughlin
He was a Detroit radio priest
originally a supporter of the New deal
Became anti-Semitic
Blamed Jewish bankers for Great Depression
Wanted to make banks owned by the government
also wanted more money in circulation
Anti-Communistic
Francis Townshend
Doctor from Long beach, California
Proposed the Old age revolving pension
Townshend plan
Every american over 60 must retire
open up jobs for younger, better workers
retirees would receive $200 per month
a lot for GD, and must spend in one month
Spur economy
Didn't agree with FDR because it wasn't 'far enough'
Social security
Huey Long
Known as the biggest threat to FDR
Poised to run for 1936 election
Steal votes from FDR

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