Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Alan Brinkley, AMERICAN HISTORY 12/e Chapter Twenty-Five: The Great Depression

Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Twenty-Five: The Great Depression The Coming of the Great Depression The Coming of the Great Depression –The Great Crash  Stock Market Boom Wall Street (Licensed for Use)

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Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Twenty-Five: The Great Depression The Coming of the Great Depression The Coming of the Great Depression –Causes of the Depression  Lack of Diversification  Maldistribution of Wealth

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Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Twenty-Five: The Great Depression The Coming of the Great Depression The Coming of the Great Depression –Causes of the Depression  Lack of Diversification  Maldistribution of Wealth  Poor Credit Structure  Declining Exports

Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Twenty-Five: The Great Depression The Coming of the Great Depression The Coming of the Great Depression –Causes of the Depression  Lack of Diversification  Maldistribution of Wealth  Poor Credit Structure  Declining Exports  Unstable International Debt Structure

Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Twenty-Five: The Great Depression The Coming of the Great Depression The Coming of the Great Depression –Progress of the Depression  Banking Collapse The Unemployed, 1930 (Library of Congress)

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Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Twenty-Five: The Great Depression The American People in Hard Times The American People in Hard Times –African Americans and the Depression  African American Suffering  Scottsboro Case

Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Twenty-Five: The Great Depression The American People in Hard Times The American People in Hard Times –African Americans and the Depression  African American Suffering  Scottsboro Case  NAACP’s Changing Role

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Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Twenty-Five: The Great Depression The American People in Hard Times The American People in Hard Times –Women and the Workplace in the Great Depression  Popular Disapproval of Women’s Employment  Increased Female Employment

Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Twenty-Five: The Great Depression The American People in Hard Times The American People in Hard Times –Women and the Workplace in the Great Depression  Popular Disapproval of Women’s Employment  Increased Female Employment  Demise of the National Woman’s Party

Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Twenty-Five: The Great Depression The American People in Hard Times The American People in Hard Times –Depression Families  Retreat from Consumerism Farm Family in Indiana (Microsoft Encarta)

Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Twenty-Five: The Great Depression The Depression and American Culture The Depression and American Culture –Depression Values  Persistence of the “Success Ethic”

Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Twenty-Five: The Great Depression The Depression and American Culture The Depression and American Culture –Depression Values  Persistence of the “Success Ethic”  Self-Blame

Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Twenty-Five: The Great Depression The Depression and American Culture The Depression and American Culture –Depression Values  Persistence of the “Success Ethic”  Self-Blame  Dale Carnegie

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Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Twenty-Five: The Great Depression The Depression and American Culture The Depression and American Culture –The Popular Front and the Left  Spanish Civil War  Southern Tenant Farmer’s Union  The Left’s Newfound Respectability “Communism is twentieth century Americanism” Earl Browder

Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Twenty-Five: The Great Depression The Depression and American Culture The Depression and American Culture –The Popular Front and the Left  Spanish Civil War  Southern Tenant Farmer’s Union  The Left’s Newfound Respectability  The Grapes of Wrath

Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Twenty-Five: The Great Depression The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover –The Hoover Program  Failure of Voluntarism Herbert Hoover (Library of Congress)

Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Twenty-Five: The Great Depression The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover –The Hoover Program  Failure of Voluntarism  Agricultural Marketing Act Herbert Hoover (Library of Congress)

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Copyright ©2007 by the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Chapter Twenty-Five: The Great Depression The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover –The Hoover Program  Failure of Voluntarism  Agricultural Marketing Act  Hoover’s Declining Popularity Popularity  Reconstruction Finance Corporation Corporation Herbert Hoover (Library of Congress)

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