Jan. 25-29

Monday- Politics Study for test tomorrow

Tuesday- Test today

Wednesday- Discussed 30's

Thursday-Discussed 30's

Friday- Discussed 30's topics

1.-Causes of the Great Depression

Overproduction of goods
- led to business losing
  - money
  - workers
Under consumption of goods
- led to business losing
High tariff policies
- Forces Americans to American products
- People weren't buying and we couldn't export
  - Other countries put high tariffs on our goods
Taxes
- Trickle down theory
  - Rich got rich
  - poor got poorer
  - income gap got wider
Stock market crash
- people lost money
- business lost money
- banks closed
  - Peoples money was gone
Vicious Cycle of the Great Depression
- Companies lose money
- Companies lay people off
- Unemployment rate goes up and less people buy goods as income has dropped
- companies profits fall so they lay more people off and fail.
- Cycle repeats
Dust Bowl
- Sped up great depression
- Wrongful farming
  - Overproduction of crops
  - nothing to cover the topsoil
  - Wind just blew the dirt around

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

Hoovervilles
- Shacks built by people who lost houses
- Overcrowded
  - increase and disease spreading
- Blamed President Hoover
Breadlines
- People with no money would stand in line and wait for bread
Soup kitchens
- Free soup for the homeless
Hopping Freight Train
- Highschoolers that didn't want to be a burden for their parents
- Ride from town to town looking for jobs
Okies
- People that left the dust bowl states to find work at California

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

Rugged Individualism
- People need to earn their own money
High tariff Policy
- Stopped import and export of goods
1928 election
- Hoover(R)
- Al Smith(D)
  - Catholic
    - People were afraid he would let the Pope influence his decisions'
Hoovers Fight Against the Great Depression
- Stay positive
  - Encouraged people to help each other out
- Federal Farm Board
  - Stabilized 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 Reparation
- Forced Mexican immigrants to go back to Mexico
- Idea of raising employment rate
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
- Gave loans to banks, state and local government, and businesses to create jobs for people
- Gave state loans for employment relief
Boulder (Hoover) Dam
- Located near Las Vegas
- Huge engineering undertaking
- Made jobs for many people
- A lot of Dam projects during the Great Depression

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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