Week of Jan 25-29

Monday-talk about forum posts. Test tomorrow. Start talking about politics-Iowa caucus. Go to isidewith.com and take the quiz. Notes on bottom.

Tuesday- Take test.

Wednesday- We get our tests back and go over them. Start video on 1930's.

Thursday- Create groups for testing. Continue notes.

Friday- 

 

1.Causes of the Great Depression

  • Overproduction of goods
  • Underconsumption 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
  • Banks closing

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

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

  • People lost jobs
  • Lost homes
  • Lost life savings
  • Banks closed
  • Hoovervilles
  • Breadlines 
  • Soup kitchens 
  • Teenagers would drop out of school
  • Schools shut down 
  • Teens felt like they were a burden to their family and go town to town looking for jobs, hopping on trains
  • Selling apples-buying from wholesales and selling it for a little more 
  • Dust bowl

Hoovervilles

  • "Shanty towns" made up of homeless people

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

  • Raised tariffs 
  • Encouraged people to be patient and stay positive and to volunteer to help each other
  • Federal Farm Board- Stabaliy prices and promote the sale of agricultural products
  • Norris-La Guardia Act to strengthen labor unions

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

 

Alphabet Soup Organizations:

 

Hoover’s Measures:

Reconstruction Finance Corporation(RFC)

 

Employment Projects:

Civilian Conservation Corps(CCC)

Federal Emergency Relief Act/Administration(FERA)

Public Works Administration(PWA)

Civil Works Administration(CWA)

Works Progress Administration(WPA)

National Youth Administration(NYA)

 

Business/Bank Assistance and Reform:

Emergency Banking Relief Act(Bank Holiday)(EBRA)

Federal Securities Act(FSA)

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation(FDIC)

National Recovery Administration(NRA)/National Industrial Recovery Act(NIRA)

Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC)

Banking Act of 1935

 

Farm Relief and Rural Development:

Agricultural Adjustment Act(1st and 2nd)(AAA)

Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act

Tennessee Valley Authority(TVA)

Rural Electrification Administration(REA)

Farm Security Administration(FSA)

 

Housing:

Home Owners’s Loan Corporation(HOLC)

Federal Housing Administration(FHA)

United States Housing Authority(USHA)

 

Labor Relations:

National Labor Relations Act(Wagner Act)(NLRB)

Fair Labor Standards Act(FLSA)

 

Retirement:

Social Security Administration(Glass-Steagall Act)(SSA)

 

Native Americans:

Indian Reorganization Act(IRA)

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