Monday- Forum post leaders shared their topics
Our class took a quiz for the Iowa caucus and then voted.
1920's Test tomorrow!!!
Tuesday- 1920's Test
Wednesday- Mr. Bruns handed back the 1920's test and we went over it.
The 1930's
- Causes of the great depression
- Overproduction of goods
- Under-consumption of goods
- Agricultural slump
- Farmers couldn't afford to harvest their crops
- High protective tariff policies
- Less trade between countries
- Taxes benefiting the rich
- Rich got richer
- poor got poorer
- Stock Market crash
- Banks and businesses closed
- People lost jobs
- People stop buying
- Banks Closing
- People lost money
- The vicious cycle
- Companies lose money
- Unemployment goes up
- Profits fall so they have to lay people off
- People stopped buying goods
Thursday- We chose our groups for the tests and got our new seats
Mr. Bruns began talking about the effects of the great depression
- Impact of the great depression
- Unemployment
- People lost money
- Hoovervilles
- Small towns of unemployed people
- Houses were terrible conditions
- "Hoover blankets"
- Newspaper
- Breadlines
- People would line up to get food
- Usually only men came to get bread
- Soup kitchen
- Similar to bread lines
- Put on by
- Churches
- Salvation army
- Red cross
- Hopping trains
- Teens would drop out of school
- Felt like burdens to their families
- Travel from town to town looking for jobs
- Selling Apples
- People would sell apples
- $.05
- Dust Bowl
- Overproduction of crops
- Dry years in the 1930's
- The wind would take the sand
- Dust pneumonia
- Hoover
- Republican philosophy
- Hoover doesn't realize the severity of the situation
- "A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage"
- 1928 Election
- Herbert Hoover
- Won in landslide
- Al Smith
- Catholic
- Herbert Hoover
- How Hoover helped with the depression
- Encouraged people to be patient
- Federal Farm board
- Group that would stabilize and promote the sale of ag products
- Norris La guardia
- Strengthened labor unions
- Hoover Moratorium
Friday-
We continued talking about Hoover
- Hoover
- ways to help depression
- Hoover Moratorium
- Halt on German War payments
- Halt on payments from England and France
- Mexican Repatriation
- Immigrants were forced to go back to Mexico
- Revenue Act of 1932
- Increased taxes
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation
- Gave loans to govt;s and business' to create jobs for people
- Gave states loans for emergency release
- Started by hoover
- Not successful
- Dissolved in 1946
- Hoover Dam
- Cost $165 billion dollars
- Hoover Moratorium
- ways to help depression
We watched Cassie and Jacob's video
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