January 25th- 29th (Review for 1920's Test)

Monday- Notes

Tuesday- 1920's Test

Wednesday- 1930's Presentations

Causes of The Great Depression
- Overproduction of goods
  - Under-consumption of goods by consumers
- Agricultural slump in 1920's due to overproduction
- High protective tariff policies in 1920's
  - Took away world trade
  - nobody was buying things in America
- Taxes benefiting the rich-rich got richer, poor got poorer
  - Income in Equality
    - The rich was barely taxed and was supposed to help the lower class, but they still kept their money
- Stock Market crash
  - Lost jobs
  - Couldn't buy things and provide for families
- Banks Closing
  - People lost life savings
Vicious Cycle
- Companies lose $$ so they lay people off
- Unemployment rate foes 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
Hoovervills
- People that lost their homes
- Very bad homes like almost homeless
- Spread out homes that were crappy
- Hoover-blankets
  - Used newspapers for blankets
- Hoover-Flags
  - Walking with pockets turned inside out
- All from President Hoover
- Bread lines-
  - Men stood in line for bread
  - Not women- were embarrassed

Thursday- Notes

Soup Kitchens
- Made for people who couldn't afford to feed their families
- Hoover didn't believe that government should provide
  - People need to volunteer to help their own community
- Women would rather receive well-fare then find a job
Hoboes Hopping Freight Trains
- kids dropped out of school
- Traveled town to town looking for jobs
- Very adventurous, but dangerous (kidnapping, murder, disappearance)
Apple Vender
- People selling apples from the trunk of their car
- People buy from truck, then sell them in baskets for a little more
- This paycheck was day to day
Dust Bowl
- 1935-1940
- In the Great Plains (Kansas Nebraska, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico)
- "Great American Desert"- before we had irrigation
- Farmed tilled ground that was hard and very dry (drought for about 5 years)
- Farmers didn't rotate crops and handle land very well
Okies
- People from Oklahoma that were affected by Dust Bowl
- Gave up farming and went to California
- Packet everything on the back of a vehicle
Hoover Struggles with the Great Depression

Friday- Notes

President Hoover
- Kept saying to be patient
  - Trickle down Theory
  - High Tariffs
- Came to be president at a bad time
- Didn't do much
- 1928 Republican Campaign Promise
  - "A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage"
Hoover Accomplishments
- Encouraged people to be patient, stay positive, and volunteer to help each other
- Federal Farm Board
  - Stabilize prices and to promote the sale of agricultural products
  - Paid more to farm less
  - Paid them get rid of crops and animals (handling over production while the city people starved)
- Norris-La Guardia Act
  - Strengthened labor unions
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 Repatriation
- Mexican immigrants were encouraged/forced to go back to Mexico
Revenue Act of 1932
- Increased taxes so US gov't had $$
Hawley-Smoot Tar

Test Questions

1.-Causes of the Great Depression

2.-Impact the Great Depression had on people and our country

3.-President Hoover’s attempt(or lack thereof) to help solve Great Depression

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

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