Today we are going to do more blog discussion. Before we did that though we talked about Martin Luther King Jr. and watch the 2 min video of his "I Have A Dream" speech.
Notes:
~Children during the great depression:
Health care for children were bad because hospitals and doctors were shut down.
Schools also were shut down so kids couldnt get a good education.
Suicide rates were scary during this time. (wasnt only kids though)
Children looking for jobs (men) or "wild hoppers" would jump on trains to look for jobs.
~Social and Psychological Effects:
Many people had to give up their education. especial college students.
People would stop going to the dentist and the doctors and such because they couldnt afford it.
Although alot of negative things were happening people were becoming closer together.
Suicide rates were going up because people were embarassed and ashamed of being poor or suffering.
~Hoovers Philosophy
He didnt think government should get involved with everything that was going on.
He thought organizations and rich individuals should have worked together to build things back up.
He thought if they used the goverment people would just use the government and not do things for themselves and ruin their self worth.
He was anti-welfare.
He also asked companies to NOT lay off of cut wages of workers.
***1. Rugged Individualism-Government wont help, people need to vend for themselves.
***2. Laissez Fairre-less government..
***3. Trickle-Down Theory-giving tax cuts to the rich which trickles then down to everyone else.
~The Boulder Dam
Hoover proposed the construction of a dam on the Colorado River.
He thought in doing this it would eventually pay for itself.
It went approval of government in 1928.
6 companies helped to build this.
It produced jobs for people, prevents flooding, irrigation, provided water for Las Vegas and other cities in the area.
~Democrats win 1930 congressional election
By 1930 people were blaming the republicans for the Depression and not fixing things.
Mid-term election, and Democrats take over.
~Hoover takes action
He Set up the farm board to help people who were members could purchase crops but couldnt sell until the crop prices raised.
The National Credit Corporation gave money to banks to keep them from closing.
Federal Home loan bank act-designed to lower payments on farms and homes so people could keep them.
Reconstruction finance corporation-allowed congress to give emergency money to state and local governments, this is an example of the Trickle-Down Theory.
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