Finished Blog Discussions!
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8. Dust Bowl(474)
- happened during the 30s in the great plains
- black sunday
- 38 dust storms happend in the year 1933
- farmers were told to plant more crops, so they did, it was going great through the 20s because they got lots of water,etc. then dryness occurs in the early 30s and started dust storms and ruins farms
- they started planting trees, etc.. to help prevent from the dust storms to happen again
9. Men in the Streets(475)
- men were unemployed (became hobos)
- embarassed because they couldnt take care of their families
- 300,000 hobos traveled the country
- they designed a language (symbols) to let people know things were safe
- men on the streets had to do what they had to do to stay alive
10. Women struggle to survive(475-476)
- before the great depression women were making clothes and working
- when the great depression began they believed women shouldnt work at all
- women sometimes struggled a lot more then men
11. Children suffer hardships(476)
- if you were a child you got a job to help get money for your family
- kids had rickets: not getting proper nutrition
- some kids didnt stay home and ran away and lived on railroad tracks (called box-car kids)
- mainly teens who ran away
- about 3,000 schools shut down during the depression (so they went to work)
- dreams are crushed by the great depression.
12. Social and psychological effects(477)
- some people were so depressed that they killed themselves
- when their kids were somewhat sick they didnt go to the doctors because they werent dying
- brought people together
- social effects
- embarassment
13. Hoover's background
- born in west branch, IA
- museum today (white house)
- quaker family
- stricked
- engineer (smart, very bright)
- helped with food efforts in belgium
- humanitarian
- world war 1 head of food administration
- 20s secretary of commerce
- popular. when he took office that changed
- won president in 1928
14. Hoover's philosophy/Cautious steps(479)
- didnt believe in welfare
- he believed that food pantries and rich people should help others
- stay out
- wanted companies to keep people hired and keeping their hours instead of laying them off
- shared time (if your job wasnt completely cut then it was cut in half)
- hoover kept saying things are going to be okay (NO)
1. Trickle down theory
- republican philosophy
- tax breaks upper class/big businesses
- middle class- better wages/more jobs
- lower class
2. Laissez Faire
- french term for "let alone", "hand off"
- government stays out of business'
3. Rugged Individualism
- people fend for themselves
- hurt hoover
4. Fiscally Responsible -with money
- $14 trillion in debt
- government cant officially shut down
- we made more money then what we spent
15. Boulder Dam(480)
- tallest dam and second biggest
- hoover authorized the production of the dam (responsible)
- hoover used the money to construct from the profit
- helped the growth with agricultural
- created jobs, helped cities (water,electricity) ,profits
- self-liquidating: paid for itself (electricity)
- now called the hoover dam because he had so much to do with it
16. Democrats win 1930 Congressional elections(480)
- every blamed hoover
- all towns that were depressed were called hooverville
- people loved the republicans then people said they needed change so the democrats took over
17. Hoover takes action(481)
- hoover made the glass stagall act: made it easier for people to get loans, making backs safer, released the gold reserves
- Reconstruction Finance Coorporation: trickle down theory in action- hoover was hoping organizations would hire more people, expanding business. Gave money out to business and banks. Biggest thing hoover did. did not give direct releif to people
- boulder dam act
- federal farm board- buy up surplus crops, house it, prices go up they sell. (by that prices went down)
- federal home loan bank act- help farmers and home owners to keep their homes.. morgages easier
- national credit coorporation- set up by large banks to loan money to small banks in times of needs so they wouldnt go bank rupt and close down
- hoover did things but not enough
18. Bonus Army(482-483)
- went to DC to protest
- patment bill: allowed money to be paid earlier (didnt pass)
- macarthur and eisenhower were sent in
- wanted money
- government woulnt give it to them
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