1. The Great Depression
Week 15

2. Do Now /7
How did the legislation excerpted above affect the relationship between the US government and its citizens?
It allowed the government to tax investment income
It allowed people to have more direct input in government decisions
It made most people distrust the power of the government
It made the government more responsible for the people’s economic welfare

3. Fixing the Economy
Thursday – 12/7/17

4. Bank Holiday Emergency Banking Act FDR closed all national banks
Banking regulations
Safeguards against future economic depression

5. HOT Question
Why did President Roosevelt believe a Bank Holiday was necessary to being economic recovery?

6. Economic Legislation Revenue Act 1935 Banking Act 1935
Increased taxes on high income and large corporations
Banking Act 1935
Extended federal control over private banking practices
National Recovery Act
Controlled prices and wages and ensured fair competition in industry

7. FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Restore trust in America’s banks
Money deposited in banks is insured against future closures or economic depression

8. SEC Securities and Exchange Commission Regulate stocks and bonds
Stop fraud
Regulated utility rates and financial practices

9. HOT Questions What was the purpose of the FDIC?
What was the purpose of the SEC?

10. Federal Reserve Central Banking System
Created to counter financial crisis’
Regulates monetary ($) policy

11. HOT Question
In your opinion, were President Roosevelt’s monetary policies successful?
Explain.

12. CLOSING
Create an advertisement that informs the general public about the benefits of the Federal Reserve

13. Do Now /8
What do you know about the Dust Bowl?

14. The Dust Bowl
Friday – 12/8/17

15. HOT Questions
Which geographical areas of the United States experienced the severest soil erosion (caused by wind)?
Predict how the Dust Bowl changed settlement patterns in the United States.

16. Physical Factors Causes of the Dust Bowl:
Severe drought (no rain)
Overgrazed fields (by livestock)
Over plowed fields
High winds
Drought, grazing and plowing destroyed the grass that held the soil in place
High winds carried the loose soil across the nation (dust storms)

17. HOT Questions What practices created the Dust Bowl of the 1930s?
Predict what changes people will experience during the Dust Bowl.

20. Human Factors Dorothea Lange Migrant Workers Oklahoma & Arkansas
Sunbelt
Migrated to the west coast
Searching for jobs
Treated poorly
Dorothea Lange

21. Woodie Guthrie Singer/Song writer
Sang about migrant farmers and hard times during the Great Depression
This Land is Your Land
Dust Bowl Refugee

22. John Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath, 1939 Realism
Tells the story of a poor family of tenant farmers in Oklahoma during the Great Depression
They are driven from their home by drought, economic hardship and bank foreclosures
Weg

23. AAA Agricultural Adjustment Act New Deal legislation
Boost agricultural prices by reducing surplus
Government bought and slaughtered livestock
Government paid farmers subsidies to NOT farm portions of their land (soil conservation and farming regulation)

24. HOT Questions
Who might have suffered as a result of the Agricultural Adjustment Act?

25. CLOSING
Create an acrostic poem with the term DUST BOWL