February 1-5

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1.-Causes of the Great Depression

Overproduction of goods
- factories kept pumping out goods
Underconsumption of goods by consumers
- people were in debt so weren't buying goods
Agricultural slump in 1920's due to overproduction
- no one was buying or needing crop
High protective tariff policies of the 1920's
- weren't trading with other countries so we weren't making a profit because no one was buying anything
Taxes benefiting the rich-rich got richer, poor get poorer
- rich were a small percent of the people in the US
Stock market crash
- sped everything up
Banks Closing
- year after the stock market crash, banks closed

VICIOUS CYCLE OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION

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

Hoovervilles
- shacks built for people to live in because they couldn't afford homes
- banks took over because everyone was poor
- shacks made out of plywood, tin, whatever they could find
high standard of living
soup kitchens
free coffee and donuts for unemployed
hobos hopping freight trains
- men would hop on trains and travel from town to town
- didn't want to be a burden to their parents
selling apples
dust bowl
- farmers were stressed, plow up grasslands for food
- area became extremely dry
- desert like land
- didn't put nutrients back into the soil
- didn't have trees to stop it
Okies
- pack up and go to California
- people just gave up
Hoover struggles with Great Depression

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

Laissez Faire
Rugged Individualism
"not gonna spend more money than we take in"
viewed as uncaring and as a President who did very little to help with Great Depression
this was not true
1928 Presidential Election
- Herbert Hoover vs. Al Smith
- blowout
1928 Republican Campaign Promise
- "A chicken in every pot"
  - everyone is going to be in good shape and okay
Hoover's Fight Against Great Depression
- Encouraged people to be patient, stay positive and volunteer to help each other
- Federal Farm Board
  - stabilize prices and to promote the sale of agricultural products
- Norris-La Guardia Act
  - strengthened labor unions
- Hoover Moratorium
  - one year halt on German war payments to France
  - one year halt on war payments from Great Britain and France to the US
- Mexican Repatriation
  - Mexican immigrants were encouraged/forced to go back to Mexico
- Revenue Act of 932
  - Increased taxes so US gov't had $$
- Hawley-Smoot Tariff
  - raised tariffs to record levels
Reconstruction Finance Corporation - 1932
- Gave loans to banks, state and local govt's, and business' to create projects/jobs for people
- Gave states loans for emergency relief needs
- Started under Hoover
- Not as successful as Hoover had hoped
- Dissolved in 1946
Boulder (Hoover) Dam
- located near Las Vegas
- included the dam, All-American Canal, town of Boulder City, highways, railroads and various works
- cost $165 million to build
- Dams are projects that pays for itself, makes money for the government

4.-1932/1936 Presidential elections

5.-Bonus Army

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

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

8.-The Three R’s

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

10.-Fireside chats

11.-The Hundred Days

12.-Deficit spending and “priming the pump”

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

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

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