Monday:
- We talked about the forum posts
- We did isidewith.com and we talked about politics
- We studied for our test
Tuesday:
- We took our test
Wednesday:
- We looked at our tests
- We started to watch the 1930's videos
Thursday:
- We continued our discussion
Friday:
- Mr. Bruns kept talking about the presidential elections
1.-Causes of the Great Depression
- overproduction of goods
- companies were pumping out a lot of goods and not selling it
- under-consumption of goods by consumers
- people quit buying because they had what they needed and needed to save
- agricultural slump in 1920's due to overproduction
- farmers depression started post WWI - had a great impact on the Great Depression
- high protective tariff policies of the 1920's
- high tariff may benefit businesses to force Americans to buy product, keep foreign competition out. People weren't buying, and the high tariff caused selling to other countries to be hard. (World Trade was cut considerably)
- taxes benefiting the rich-rich got richer, poor got poorer
- trickle-down theory. Taxes hit the middle class very hard.
- stock market crash
- sped up the depression. Everyone was loosing money.
- banks closing
- cause and effect of the depression. almost a year after that the banking problem started taking place.
- * 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
- under-consumption of goods by consumers
2.-Impact the Great Depression had on people and our country
- Hoovervilles
- Shacks built for people who couldn't afford to live in homes (plywood/tin/whatever could be found)
- named because they believed Hoover caused it
- Breadlines
- people didn't have money so they would stand in line waiting for bread
- men usually went and got it, women usually avoided it because of embarrassment
- Soup Kitchens
- mostly men
- "free soup, coffee, and doughnuts for the unemployed"
- Hoover didn't believe in this (it wasn't the federal governments job to do)
- Hobos Hopping Freight Trains
- more common for men
- people would hop on and go to other towns looking for jobs so they didn't feel like a burden to their parents
- Selling Apples
- people would go and buy from the bigger apple sellers and then go find an area and sell them for more
- Dust Bowl
- farmers were stressed, plowed up crop land and the area became extremely dry
- Colorado, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma were the majorly affected areas
- Great Plains were referred to as desert like
- Dorthy Elaine
- photographed and showed how farmers didn't have it easy like everyone said
- farmers were stressed, plowed up crop land and the area became extremely dry
- Okies
- people from Oklahoma that left the dust bowl states because they lost everything
- went to California to try and find jobs
- grape vineyards were a popular job
- Breadlines
3.-President Hoover’s attempt(or lack thereof) to help solve Great Depression
- Republican
- rugged individualism
- 1920's philosophies hurt him
- He was viewed as uncaring and as a President who did very little to help with the Great Depression
- This was not actually true
- 1928 Campaign Promise
- "A chicken in every pot an a car in every garage."
- Encouraged people to be patient, stay positive and volunteer to help each other other
- Federal Farm Board
- stabilized 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 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 government had $$
- Hawley- Smoot Tariff
- raised tariffs to record levels
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) 1932
- gave loans to banks, state and local governments, 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
- FDR continued this through the rest of the thirties and into forties (ended right after WWII in 1946)
- Boulder (Hoover) Dam
- Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam) is located near Las Vegas
- The Hoover Dam project including the damn, the All-American Canal, the town of Boulder City, highways, railroads, and various other works, cost $165 million to build
- Lots of dams were built for jobs, energy that the government could sell
- self-liquidating project
- project that pays for itself (money for the government in this case)
- self-liquidating project
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
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