Monday- We voted and studied for the test
Tuesday- Test
Wednesday-
1.-Causes of the Great Depression
- overproduction of goods- making more than they were selling
- under-consumption of goods by consumers- low profits and people being laid off
- agricultural slump in 1920's due to overproduction- farmers were more populated than urban
- high protective tariff policies of the 1920's- tried to make people buy the U.S. products instead of foreign
- taxes benefiting the rich-rich got richer, poor got poorer
- stock market crash- sped everything up
- banks closing
2.-Impact the Great Depression had on people and our country
- companies lose $$ so they lay off people
- unemployment rate goes up and less people buy goods as income has dropped
- companies profits fall so they have to lay more people of or close
- cycle repeats itself
- Hoovervilles, soup kitchens, hoboes hopping trains, selling apples, dust bowl, okies
3.-President Hoover’s attempt(or lack thereof) to help solve Great Depression
- hoover was viewed as uncaring and as a president who did very little to help with the Great Depression
- beat Al smith(D) in the 1928 presidential election
- "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage"
- things hoover did
- encouraged people to be patient, stay positive, and volunteer to help each other
- federal farm board
- stabilize prices and to promote the sale of agricultural products
- Norris-La Guardia act
- strengthened labor unions
- hoover moratorium
- one year halt on german war payments to france
- one year halt on war payments from great britian and france to the united states
- mexican repatriation
- mexican immigrants were encouraged or forced to go back to MExico
- revenue act of 1932
- increased taxes so US gov't had $$
- 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
- Boulder(hoover) Dam
- Boulder(now Hoover) 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 $156 million to build
- why do you think there were a lot of dam projects in the 1930s?
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
Thursday- On Wednesday
Friday- On Wednesday
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