Monday: Took the presidential campaign test to see who we side the most with.
Tuesday: Took 1920's test.
Wednesday: Reviewed the 1920's test and asked questions if there were any. Started 1930's video projects.
Thursday:
Friday:
1930's Notes
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
- Companies couldn't sell in the U.S. nobody was buying
- Companies couldn't sell outside of the U.S. because of tariffs
- Taxes benefiting the rich-rich got richer, poor got poorer
- Stock market crash
- Supercharged the Great Depression
- Lost millions of dollars
- Banks and businesses closed
- Banks closing
- Because they closed people lost a lot of money
- Because of the Great Depression, they closed
The Vicious Cycle of the Great Depression
- Companies loose $$ so they lay people off
- Unemployment rate goes up and less people buy goods as income has dropped
- Companies profits fall so the have to lay more people off or close
- Cycle repeats itself
Hoovervilles
- Shanty towns on the outskirts of cities
- Called Hoovervilles because of terrible living conditions that Herbert Hoover caused them
Breadlines
- Place giving out bread, coffee, sometimes donuts
- No women, because the men provided for the family
- Would be embarrassed, would rather be hungry and eat crackers
- Expected that the government should give them food/money
Soup Kitchens
- Put on by churches, Red Cross, rich organizations that want to help out
Hoboes Hopping Freight Trains
- Teens thought they were burdens to the family so they hopped trains and looked for jobs in different cities
- Mostly men
Selling apples
- Come in with a bunch of apples
- 2 or 3 cents an apple
- Would take it back to a place further away that doesn't have money and would sell 5 cents
Dust Bowl
- Happened in the 1935-1940
- Declared it the Great American desert
- Irrigation in this area
- 10% less precipitation it would be a desert
- Plowed up fields and pastures due to the need of crops from the WWI
- Massive erosion due to plowing, drought, and not enough vegetation
Herbert Hoover
- Believe in the Republican Philosophy- Rugged Individualism, Trickle Down Theory, Laizifairre
- People should figure it out themselves, the government should be itself
Hoover's FIght Against the Great Depression
- 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-Laguardia Act
- Strengthened labor union
- Hoover Moratorium
- One year halt on German war payments to France
- One year on way payments from Great Britain and France to the U.S.
- Mexican Repatriation
- Mexican immigrants were encouraged/forced to go back to Mexico
- Revenue Act of 1932
- Increased taxes so U.S. government had $$
- Hawley-Smoot Tariff
- Raised tariffs to record levels
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)- 1932
- Gave loans to banks, state and local government, 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 including the dam, the All-American Canal, the town of Boulder City, highways, railroads and various other wors, cost $165 million to build
- Why do you think there were a lot of dam projects in the 1930's?
- Created money for the government, created energy, sold the energy, created jobs
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