1. Read your letter to Mrs. Roosevelt, then take 5 minutes to: Write down on a separate piece of paper: Who wrote the letter? What was the letter about? How did it make you feel/the emotions it evokes?

2. The Great Depression Should people, businesses, and governments be able to buy goods and services using credit? When does investment into the stock market, and other ventures, become too risky? To what extent should the government be involved in economic practices? What is the appropriate role for government in citizens' lives?

3. Quote Lesson One (write what is red) Hoover quote at his inauguration March 4, 1929: “Ours is a land rich in resources; stimulating in its glorious beauty; filled with millions of happy homes; blessed with comfort of opportunity. In no nation are the institutions of progress more advanced. In no nation are the fruits of accomplishment more secure. In no nation is the government more worthy of respect. No country is more loved by its people. I have an abiding faith in their capacity, integrity and high purpose. I have no fears for the future of our country. It is bright with hope.”

4. Quote Lesson Two Will Rogers, 1920s and 30s media star: "Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt... all just to make some easy money quick.”

5. Quote Lesson Three Hoover quote in a speech to Congress December 2, 1930: “Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body—the producers and consumers themselves. Recovery can be expedited and its effects mitigated by cooperative action… The best contribution of government lies in encouragement of this voluntary cooperation in the community.”

6. Quote Lesson 4 Video President Franklin D. Roosevelt: “I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.”

7. Quote Lesson 5 Frances Perkins, Former United States Secretary of Labor and first female cabinet member: “The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.”

8. Quote Lesson 6 John Steinbeck quote, The Grapes of Wrath, Ch. 19: "And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed."

9. Quote Lesson 7 Franklin D. Roosevelt “We are trying to construct a more inclusive society. We are going to make a country in which no one is left out.”

10. Review Questions “What was the Great Depression?” “Should people, businesses, and governments be able to buy goods and services using credit?” “When does investment into the stock market, and other ventures, become too risky?” “To what extent should the government be involved in economic practices?” “What is the appropriate role for government in citizens' lives?” “What ended the Great Depression?”