Today in class we worked continued with blog talks.Rosa Parks went to a segregated school. She was riding the bus home one day and she sat in the White section and she was asked to get up and she didn’t and the police come to arrested her. They boycotted the buses and this caused them to be desegregated.MLK was a civil rights leader who was very peaceful in his protests. He was recognized for this and his I have a Dream speech in DC and he helped African Americans to gain equal rights. His speech was about people being judged by their dreams rather than their skin. He was married with four kids and he was assassinated by James Earl Ray. I learned that he changed his name to Martin Luther when he went to Germany.Langston Hughes had a rough childhood with his parents not being supported and they both left him. He was raised by his grandmother. This influenced his poetry after he went to grammar school and he worked with the yearbook and the paper there. He went to Lincoln for an engineering college. He wrote a lot of famous poetry that he was best known for.The Omaha race riot was when a mob of whites tried to get at Will Brown in a courthouse. They courthouse was beaten down and set on fire after the police were beaten back. They captured the mayor and he was hung but saved and Will Brown has hung till death and then hauled around the city for hours. I had never heard this before and it was very interesting.Colin Powell went to college in New York and joined the Reserve Corps. He was later a Captain in the Vietnam War. He was the National Security Advisor to the President and he was promoted to General by HW Bush and became the first African American secretary of state.The Montgomery Bus Boycott was when blacks boycotted the buses. They were only going to do it for a couple day but they kept going since it was successful. They started a Black taxi service to get them around. The whites bombed MLK’s home to try and get them to stop boycotting. It ended when the city gave up and they ruled it unconstitutional to segregate the buses.We then moved back to the presentations.Test QuestionsWhat was the New Deal (1st and 2nd) and its goals (3 R's)?The three R’s were Relief (to halt the deteriorating markets and help the people), Recovery (temporary programs to start helping and to recover from the depression), Reform (permanent programs to help the economy).Why did people criticize the New Deal?Why was FDR upset with the US Supreme Court was and what did he do to try to solve this issue?How did the New Deal help:unemployed-PWA help to create new jobs in the construction industry. Civil Works administration also did this. RFC loans helped to make more jobs. USHA gave jobs for unemployed to build homes. NYA gave young people jobs. WPA gave jobs to people to “build” more jobs.Farmers- RFC loans helped to make more jobs.Factory workers/labor-NLRA set up minimum wages.Young people- NYA gave them jobs. CCC helped to give them life skills and simple jobs.Banks/business/stock market-RFC gave loans to banks to help keep banks running by using the Trickledown Theory. FSA began regulating the stock market.Home owners- USHA gave jobs for unemployed to build homes.Elderly- the Social Security Administration helped for retirement.Native Americans-IRA got rid of the Dawes Act by giving them reservations to live on and have their schools and government.Describe the culture of the 1930's.Key terms:Hundred Days-Fireside chats- informal monthly announcements that FDR gave through the radio to bring some good news to the people and so they knew where to go.Priming the pump-Deficit spending- When more money is spent then the government receives in revenue. The government spends more money than it has and they can’t keep up with it. We are currently 11 Trillion in debt.҉Public Works Administration- It built construction projects to help the poor and unemployed which helped a lot of people and it is still around today.҉FDR was a democrat. He spent most of his young life by Hyde Park, he was homeschooled and he was hyperactive. He went to Harvard and was the editor of their paper. He married Eleanor Roosevelt his fifth cousin.҉Civil Works Administration- created jobs in construction for unemployed. It was way over budgeted and it shut down 5 months later.҉Social Security Act is a tax taken out of your income. Started on 1936 and covers people who are old or disabled and helps for retirement. It’s still around today.҉Reconstruction Finance Corporation helped banks and businesses by giving loans to them. They gave 2 billion in aid to the state and local governments.҉United States Housing Authority helped build houses for low income families. It gave 600,000 jobs to poor people to build houses for people who couldn’t afford homes.҉National Youth Administration helped unemployed and young people. It gave young people money to stay in school and to get jobs for high school students. It allowed them to work to help their family and still stay in school. It ended in 1935.҉The National Labor Relations Act, Wagner Act, established a minimum wage and determined if workers were being treated fairly. Set training procedures for work areas and went anti lassez fair. People liked it but later on they didn’t like it so much but it does function today. It didn’t cover the workers that were covered under different acts.҉The Civilian Conservation Corps get young people job and life skills that they needed such as how to run some equipment and other things. However it didn’t survive but people did like it. 18-25 year old men were the only ones accepted. The men made 30 dollars a month and kept 5 but they got room, clothing, and food.҉IRA was set up to help Indians to find better homes by giving up land and moved them onto reservations. Replaced the Dawes Act by assigning them land and many denied it because they were tired of people telling them what to do and how to live, Americanize them. They would be able to set up their own governments. Sometimes they would be stuck with their enemies and they wouldn’t live peacefully.҉WPA gave Harry Hopkins, the head, 4.8 billion dollars to get jobs for the unemployed. They were given jobs to build infrastructure which also created more jobs. It ended with the beginning of the war.҉Federal Securities Act it was the first federal law to regulate the sales of stocks. The Stock Market was previously unregulated and earlier practices like pooling were outlawed.҉Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was supposed to provide 100,000 dollars insurance per account in a bank so you don’t lose your money if the bank fails.
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