USh Weekly Blog 2-13/2-17

Monday: Absent

Tuesday: Watched the video on the 1930's 

Wednesday: Went over Mr. Bruns presentation on the 1930's

  • Key Terms to Know 
    • Consumerism 
    • Buying on credit 
    • Republican Philosophy 
      • Harding 
      • Coolidge 
      • Hoover 
        • Laissez-faire 
        • Rugged individualism 
        • Trickle Down Theory 
    • Stock 
    • Stock Market 
    • Dow Jones 
      • One of several stock market indicators created by Charles Dow 
      • Dow compiled the index as a way to gauge the performance of America's stock market 
      • Today, the average consists of 30 of the largest and most widely help public companies in the US
    • Buying on margin 
    • Watered stock 
    • Stock pooling
    • Speculation-with stocks 
    • Income inequality 
    • Federal Reserve Board 
    • Bread lines
    • Soup kitchens 
    • Hoboes Hopping Freight Trains 
    • Selling Apples
    • Dust bowl
    • Okies
    • Bounus Expeditionary Force 
    • MacArthur, Eisenhower, and Patton 
    • Fireside Chats
    • Deficit Spending and Priming the Pump
    • Court Packing Bill
    • Father Charles Caughlin 
    • Franics Townshend
    • Senator Huey Long
  • Black Tuesday Oct. 29, 1929
  • Federal reserve System 
    • Created in 1913 under President Woodrow Wilson 
    • Major goal was to stop banking panics 
    • Broke the country into 12 districts each with a Federal Reserve Bank 
    • Banker's Bank- Stop bank runs 
    • Controls the amount of many in circulation
      • Controlling inflation and deflation 
    • Controls interests rates for borrowing money 
      • Encourages people to borrow money for big purchases 
        • Homes 
        • Cars 
        • ETC...
  • Causes of the Stock Market Crash- 1929
    • Stock prices were grossly inflated, did not have real value- watered stock prices 
    • Over speculation during the 1920's 
      • Led to watered stock 
    • Buying on margin 
      • Led to people being in debt and watered stock prices 
    • Overproduction of goods 
    • Uneven distribution of wealth 
    • Too much borrowing from banks 
    • Federal Reserve increases interest rates 
    • Lack of government regulation 
  • Effects of the stock market crash 
    • Investors and businesses lose millions $$$
    • Thousands of banks fail 
      • Saving are wiped out 
    • Businesses cut production 
      • Lay off workers 
    • Unemployment rises 
      • People quit spending money
    • Great Depression sets in 
    • Depression spreads to Europe and other parts of the world 
  • Causes of the Great Depression
    • Overproduction of goods 
    • Under consumption of goods by consumers
    • Agricultural slump in 1920's due to overproduction 
    • High protective tariff policies of the 1920's 
    • Taxes benefiting the rich 
      • Rich got richer, poor got poorer
    • Stock Market Crash 
  • Effects of the Great Depression 
    • New deal programs start
      • Makes the US gov't much larger 
    • Deficit spending starts 
    • The new Deal created many organizations that are still around today 
      • Social security 
      • Welfare 
    • Fascist, Military and communist dictators come to power throughout the world 
  • The Vicious Cycle of the Great Depression 
    • Companies lose $$ 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 
  • Hoover Struggles with the Great Depression 
    • Hoover was viewed as uncaring and as a President who did very little to help with the Great Depression 
      • this was no actually true 
  • 1928 Presidential Election 
    • Herbert Hoover (R) 
      • Efficiency in gov't 
      • Republican record of prosperity 
      • Pro-business
      • Promised to improve condition for farmers 
      • Reform immigration laws 
      • Maintain America's isolationist foreign policy 
      • Supported prohibition 
        • An experiment noble in purpose 
      • "A chicken in every port and a car in every garage"
    • Al Smith (D)
  • Hoover's Fight Against the Great Depression 
    • Encouraged people to be patient, stay positive, and volunteer to help each other 
    • Federal Farm Bond
      • Stabilize prices and to promote the sale of agricultural products 
    • Norris-La Guardia Act
      • Strengthen 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 $$
    • Hawley-Smoot Tariff
      • Raised tariffs to record levels 
  • Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)-1932
    • Gave loans to banks, state and local govt's, and business' to create projects/jobs for people 
    • Gave states loans for emergency relief needs
    • Started under Hoover 
    • Not as successful as Hoover had hoped 
    • Dissolved in 1946 after WWII
  • Boulder(Hoover) Dam 
    • Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) is located near Las Vegas 
    • The hoover Dam project cas $165 million ot4 build 
  • 1932 Election 
    • Herbert Hoover (R) 
    • Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) 
      • Brain Trust 
        • Harry Hopkins 
          • Social worker and the architect of much of the New Deal 
        • Henry Morgenthau 
        • Louis Lowe
        • Cordell Hull
        • Frances Perkins 
          • Sec. of Labor and first female in the cabinet 
        • Same Rosenman 
        • Raymond Moley 
        • Rexford Tugwell 
      • Some say FDR went to far. Spent too much $$
      • Others say he didn't do enough. He needed to do more
  • Relief, Reform and Recovery 
    • Relief for the needy 
    • Economic recovery 
    • Financial reform 

Thursday: No School

Friday: No School 

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