Monday- Forum post leaders talk about topics
Talked politics
Test tomorrow
Tuesday- Test
Wednesday-
1930’s Topics:
1.-Causes of the Great Depression
- Overproduction of goods
- Under consumption of goods by consumers- No one was buying goods
- Agricultural slump in 1920's due to overproduction
- High protective tariff policies of the 1920's
- Taxes benefiting the rich-rich got richer, poor god poorer
- Stock market crash- People lost millions of dollars, banks closed, businesses closed
- Banks closing
- Vicious Cycle of the Great Depression
- Companies lose $$ so they lay people off
- Unemployment 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.
- Hoovervilles
- Little homes made of plywood, tin
- Called this to "slap Hoover in the face"
- Breadlines
- Given out bread,
- Coffees, donuts occasionally
- No women because men were the bread winnings, brought home the goods
- Soup Kitchens
- Churches would be putting these things on
- Hoboes hopping freight trains
- In the 30's- hundreds of thousands men and women hopped on a train
- Selling Apples-
- Buy from an apple vendor
- Take to an area where there were a lot of people
- Sell it for more money
- Dust Bowl-
- 1935-1940
- Very dry
- Massive erosion would start showing
- Hoover struggles with the Great Depression-
- Why do you think Hoover struggled dealing with Great Depression
- He didn't take it serious and didn't see how it keeps going
- Republican Philosophy- Rugged Individualism, "its up to you, don't depend on the government"
- Hoover was viewed as uncaring and someone who did very little to help with the Great Depression
- This wasn't actually true
- Why do you think Hoover struggled dealing with 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
- Herbert Hoover(R)
- Al Smith(D)
- Slogan
- "A Chicken in ever pot and a car in every garage"
- Everything is going to be great and do great
- "A Chicken in ever pot and a car in every garage"
- Hoover's Fight against the Great Depression
- Encouraged people to be patient, stay positive and volunteer to help each other
- Federal Farm Board
- Stabilized prices and to promote the sale of agricultural products
- Norris- La Guardia Act
- Strengthened labor unions
- Hoover Moratorium
- One year halt on Germany 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 government had $$$
- Hawley-Smoot Tariff
- Raised tariffs to record levels
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation
- Gave loans to banks, state and local government 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 WWII
- Boulder (Hoover) Dam
- Hoover 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
- Why do you think there were a lot of dam projects in the 1930s
- Created jobs
- Creates energy
- Self liquidating project- Pays for itself
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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