Monday - Video over Great Depression.
Study for test tomorrow.
- Prohibition
- what is it?
- amendment?
- why they wanted it?
- problems?
- stop crime- but did the opposite
- another amendment to overturn it
Tuesday - 1920s test.
Wednesday -
- The Great Depression
- Causes:
- Overproduction of goods
- Undercomsumption of goods by consumers
- Agricultural slump in 1920s due to overproduction
- High protective tariff policies of the 1920s
- cut off international trade because we tarriffed them too
- Taxes benefiting the rich-rich got richer, poor got poorer
- Stock market crash
- Banks closing
- The Vicious Cycle of The Great Depression
- Compnies lose $$ so they lay people off
- Unemployement rate goes up and less people buy goods as income has dropped
- Companies profits fall so they have to lay more people off or close
- Cycle repeats itself
- Causes:
Thursday -
- Impacts of the Great Depression
- People losts jobs
- Homes
- Life savings because banks closed
- Businesses closed
- Hoovervilles
- shanty towns on the outskirts of cities
- little homes of plywood and tin
- slap to Hoover's face (we're living in this because of Hoover)
- Hoover Blankets - newspapers
- Hoover Flags - walking with pockets hanging out
- Breadlines
- giving out bread, coffee, doughnuts
- mostly men in line because they were, quite literally, the bread winners
- it was an embarassment
- Soup Kitchens
- Hoboes Hopping Freight Trains
- teenages would drop out of school (a lot of schools closed)
- they would then leave because they thought that they were a burden to their families
- they would hop on moving trains to get to the city to make money
- extremely dangerous
- Selling Apples
- would sell the apples for a couple cents
- then would go to a different corner to sell the apples for his own money
- Dust Bowl
- 1935 and 1940
- Great Plains (Iowa wasn't)
- Very desert-like, very dry which is why there is a lot of irrigation
- Very, very hard ground - used steel plows
- 1930s-extremely dry (weren't taking care of the soil) and there as a drought and massive erosion
- Massive soil erosion, which allowed the soil to blow
- Hoover's Philosophies
- High tarriff policies - but that cut off international trade both ways
- Didn't seem to care
- Laissez-faire
- Humanitarian -- but known as the guy who didn't care
- Hand-tied by his philosophy of rugged individualism, trick-down theory, etc.
- 1928 Presidential Elections
- Al Smith (D) vs. Herbert Hoover (R)-- won in a landslide
- A Chicken in Every Pot and a Car in Every Garage
- Al Smith (D) vs. Herbert Hoover (R)-- won in a landslide
- Herbert Hoover Achievements
- Encourage people to be patient, stay positive and volunteer to help each other
- Federal Farm Board
- stabilize prices and to promote tthe sale of agricultural products
- bought excess crops/got rid of supplies/let the farmers make a lot-prices rose/then sell the held crops/prices dropped again
- FDR destroyed it
- Norris-La Guerdia Act
- strengthened labor unions
Friday -
- More on Herbert Hoover
- felt sorry for people, but thought it was the churches problems, charities, rich people
- government isn't here to provide fo you
- 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 Pepatriation
- Mexican immigrants were encourage/forced to go back to Mexico
- Revenue Act of 1932
- increased taxes so US government had $$
- Hawley-Smoot Tariff
- raised tariffs to record levels
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation
- RFC - 1932
- gave loans to banks, state, and local governments, 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 after WW1
- built Hayden Planetarium
- Boulder (Hoover) Dam
- Boulder Bam (now Hoover Dam) is located near Las Vegas
- The Hoover Dam prohect including the dam, the All-American Canal, the town of Boulder City, highways, railroads, and various other works, cost $165 million to build
- There were a lot of dam projects in the 1930s because they made energy and would pay themselves off
- felt sorry for people, but thought it was the churches problems, charities, rich people
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