January 25th - 29th

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
    • 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

We watched Cassie and Jacob's video 

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