February 2-5

Monday- Work On Presentation

Tuesday- No school

Wednesday- No school

Thursday-

1930's

1. Causes of the Great Depression

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

vicious cycle
- companies lose $ so they lay people off
- unemployment rate goes up and less people buy goods as income has dropped
- companies profits fall so they have to lay more people off
- cycle repeats
hoovervilles
- people blamed hoover
bread lines
- mainly men
  - women were too embarrassed
20% unemployment rate
- African Americans - closer to 50%
Soup kitchen
- set up by churches, red cross, etc
hobos hopping freight trains apple vending
- people dropped out of school and left their families
dust bowl
- 1935-40
- great plains
  - "great american desert"
Okies
- moved from Oklahoma and since the dust bowl decided to give up on the farm and go to CA for jobs

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

Hoover's fight against the 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
  - farmers got paid to (the following) in order to get prices down because there was over production
    - plant less
    - kill hogs
    - destroy food
- Norris-la guardian act
  - strengthened labor unions
hoover moratorium
- 1 year halt on German war payments to France
- 1 year halt on war payments from great Britain and France to the US
Mexican repatriation
- Mexican immigrants were encourage/forced to go back to mexico
Revenue act of 1932
- increased taxes so US gov had $$
Hawley Smoot Tariff
- raised tariffs to record levels
Re construction Finance Corporation (trickle down theory in action)
- gave loans to banks, state, and local governments and businesses to create projects/jobs for people
- gave states loans for emergency relief
- started under hoover
- not as successful
boulder (hoover) dam
- located near Las Vegas
- hoover dam project includes
  - dam
  - all-american canal
  - town of boulder city
  - highways
  - railroads
- $165 million
Why?
- gives jobs
- helps farmers

4. 1932/1936 Presidential elections

5. Bonus Army

wanted money they were promised for serving in WWI soldiers peacefully protested
- 1.25 per day
congress decided not to pay them
US military forces veterans out

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

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

8. The Three R’s

Relief, Reform, and recovery
- relief for needy
- economic recovery
- financial reform

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

FIRST NEW DEAL
- Restore nation's hope
- Help banks and stock market
- Provide jobs and relief for the poor
- plan and regulate the economy
SECOND NEW DEAL
- Pass new labor laws
- Create and expand new deal agencies
- establish social security for older people and unemployed

10. Fireside chats

an Informal conversation
Fireside chats is the term used to describe a series of 30 evening radio addresses given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944

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, Town shed

A. What were some o the reasons the New Deal was Challenged? ]
- 1. Created a very powerful president that led congress, this was a violation of the checks and balances
- 2. It was a radical departure for Laissez Faire ideals. Created "Big Government"
- 3. Some acts appeared interfering and at worst unconstitutional
- 4. Heavy debt burden- the United States was engaged in deficit spending and this was unhealthy for the economy in the long run
Townshend
- Help the elderly
- They were really struggling in the Great Depression
Huey Long
- Share our wealth program
- Fixed Income
- Tax rich a TON
- for many Americans way too radical
- Shot and killed by Carl Weiss

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