Presentations:
1. What were the causes of the stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression?
I talked about the stock market. The Great Depression was started by the Stock Market Crash of 1929.
2. What impact did the stock market crash and Great Depression have on the lives of people in the United States?
People lost jobs and all their possessions. Many people committed suicide. Once it started, there was almost no getting out of it.
3. What did the United States government do to help alleviate the problems the Great Depression brought to our country?
Crime increased, people moved from country to city to find work, unemployment rate rose to nearly 25%, deficit spending, government became stronger/larger
President Hoover
Background - Born in West Branch, IA, Parents died when he was young, became a mining engineer, made lots of money. Accomplishments - Did a lot of humanitarian work, Hoover Lunches, helped provide meals for people in Europe during WWI
President in 1929, RFC, Conservative beliefs held him back from doing much, Dispersion of WWI Vets in Washington D.C.
Roosevelt-New Deal(Goals/1st and 2nd)
3 R's - Relief; give people money. Recovery; fix the economy. Reform; fix it so that it never happens again. 1st - Lasted from 1933-34, started by telling congress what he was going to do. The Emergency Banking Act gave money to banks to get them going again. The 21st amendment was passed, repealing the 18th, allowing alcohol again. 2nd - 1935-38, the Social Security Act was passed. The Wagner Act allows anybody, no matter where they work, to join a union. The Wealth Tax Act was passed to make economic classes more equal. The Housing Act was to help remove slums and set up housing. The 1st new deal focused on helping businesses and the stock market; The 2nd new deal focused more on helping out people.
How did the New Deal impact the following:
unemployed - Unemployment was at 25%, more that 11 million
young people - many you people couldn't go to school and had to try to get jobs to try to help pay for family things
factory workers/labor unions - Labor unions made of factory workers who wanted better wages and hours. Mr. Bruns is in the teachers labor union. Collective Bargaining is when people would get together in a group and talk back and forth with their employers trying to get better wages and hours, pretty much anything they wanted.
farmers - continued trying to sell when there wasn't anybody buying so prices dropped. They lost land and homes, and because of the poor farming practices, the Dust Bowl happened. AAA - Agricultural Adjustment Act - played farmers to plant less and leave the land alone. Payed to destroy food. In two years, farm prices doubled. Declared unconstitutional because they didn't tax everybody.
elderly/poor - The rich got richer, the poor got poorer. Many people were transients (hobos)
homeowners, artists/musicians,
women/African-American/Native Americans -'No housewife lost her job in the depression. NYA helped thousands of young people to stay in school.
banks, stock market, energy
4. What long lasting impact did the Great Depression have on Shelby County, Iowa, the US and world?
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