Monday - Reviewed for test and took a test about the presidential candidate
Tuesday - Took the 20's test
Wednesday - Went over the test and started videos on the 30's
Thursday - Videos and notes about 30's
Friday -Videos and notes about 30's
1930’s Topics:
1.-Causes of the Great Depression
1)Overproduction of goods
- Making more than they were selling
- Had to lay people off or close
2)Under consumption of goods by consumers
- Low profits for companies
3)Agricultural slump in the 1920's due to overproduction
- In WWI there was a high demand for food
- After the war we didn't need that much
- Bad drought and weather conditions
4)High protective tariff policies of the 1920's
- Practically forced Americans to buy American made products
- People weren't buying goods - didn't matter if there was foreign competition
- Couldn't sell to foreign countries because they had high tariffs as well.. World trade cut
5)Taxes benefiting the rich-rich got richer, poor got poorer
- The income gap got wider
- Added the problem of not buying things
6)Stock market crash
- People and banks lost money
- Businesses failed, unemployment
- Sped things up for the great depression
7)Banks closing
- When banks close, people's money is gone
*The vicious cycle of the Great Depression
- Companies lost $$ so they lay people off
- Unemployment rate goes up and less people buy goods
- Companies profits fall so they have to lay more people off or close
- Cycle repeats itself
2.-Impact the Great Depression had on people and our country
*Hoovervilles
- Many people lost their homes
- They would build shacks out of raw materials
- They would form small communities with shacks
*Unemployment rate was 25%, 50% for African Americans and minors
*Soup kitchens $ bread lines
- People would give out free food for the unemployed
*Kids
- A lot dropped out of school
- Felt like they were a burden for their parents, would leave home
- Hopped freight trains and traveled from town to town
*Selling apples
- People would buy apples cheap and sell them at work places for a few more cents
- Living for the day
*Dust bowl
- Midwest and Great Plains
- The way they farmed, farmers were told to plow up their grasslands
- This area became extremely dry - called the great American dessert
- Dust storms were common
*Okies
- Left the dust bowl states because they lost everything
- They gave up their farms and tried to find jobs out west
3.-President Hoover’s attempt(or lack thereof) to help solve Great Depression
- Had a philosophy to not spend more money than we took in
- He was viewed as uncaring and as a president who did very little to help with the Great Depression (This wasn't true)
- Hoover did more than previous presidents to get involved
- Republican philosophies hurt him, people needed help
*1928 Republican campaign promise
- A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage
- Everything will continue to be great, shouldn't change anything
*Hoover's fight against great depression
- Encouraged people to be patient, stay positive and volunteer to help each other
- Federal Farm board - stabilize prices and promote sales of agricultural products
- Norris-La Guardia Act - strengthened labor unions
- Hoover Moratorium - Once year halt on German war payments to France, one year halt on war payments from Great Britain and France to US
- Mexican Repatriation - Mexican immigrants were encouraged/forced to go back to Mexico
- Revenue Act of 1932 - Increased taxes so US gov't had $$
- Hawly-Smoot Tarrif - Raised tariffs to record levels
*Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
- Gave loans to banks, state and local governments, and business's to create projects/jobs for people
- Gave states loans for emergency relief needs
- Started under Hoover, not as successful as he had hoped
- Ended after WWII
*Hoover (Boulder) Dam
- Boulder Dam is located near Las Vegas
- The Hoover dam project including the dam, the All-American Canal, the town of Boulder City, highways, railroads and various other works, cost $165 million to build
- This and other dam projects led to more jobs, government sold energy and made money from it
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
Alphabet Soup Organizations:
Hoover’s Measures:
Reconstruction Finance Corporation(RFC)
Employment Projects:
Civilian Conservation Corps(CCC)
Federal Emergency Relief Act/Administration(FERA)
Public Works Administration(PWA)
Civil Works Administration(CWA)
Works Progress Administration(WPA)
National Youth Administration(NYA)
Business/Bank Assistance and Reform:
Emergency Banking Relief Act(Bank Holiday)(EBRA)
Federal Securities Act(FSA)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation(FDIC)
National Recovery Administration(NRA)/National Industrial Recovery Act(NIRA)
Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC)
Banking Act of 1935
Farm Relief and Rural Development:
Agricultural Adjustment Act(1st and 2nd)(AAA)
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act
Tennessee Valley Authority(TVA)
Rural Electrification Administration(REA)
Farm Security Administration(FSA)
Housing:
Home Owners’s Loan Corporation(HOLC)
Federal Housing Administration(FHA)
United States Housing Authority(USHA)
Labor Relations:
National Labor Relations Act(Wagner Act)(NLRB)
Fair Labor Standards Act(FLSA)
Retirement:
Social Security Administration(Glass-Steagall Act)(SSA)
Native Americans:
Indian Reorganization Act(IRA)
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