1. Vocab Quiz #1
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2. End Four Minutes First Four Chart 4/11 – Role of Government
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4/11 – Role of Government
Do you think the national government should help people in times of economic crisis? Explain
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3. I see, I think, I wonder…

4. End Four Minutes First Four Chart 3/14 - Change
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3/14 - Change
Think of a time when your life changed dramatically. How did you react to this change?
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7. The Great Depression & The New Deal

8. Unit 4 How do we react to change? Great Depression & The New Deal
1A Vocab Sheet      4A Vocab Sheet

9. Guiding Question #1
How great was the impact of the Great Crash and the Great Depression on the USA?

10. 1920s Economy
Stock Market
Buying on Margin
Bull/Bear Market
Role of Banks – speculators
Superficial prosperity?

12. 1929 Warnings Stock Inflation Overproduction Farm Crisis
Stock market value from $27B to $87B
Overproduction
Farm Crisis

13. Collapse Black Thursday – Oct. 24, 1929 Black Tuesday – Oct. 29
Effects?
Investors – loss of $30 B
Banks
Public
Businesses
Workers

14. Great Crash Investors World Payments Businesses and Workers Banks
Investors lose millions.
Businesses lose profits.
Consumer spending drops.
Workers are laid off.
Businesses cut investment and production Some fail.
Banks
Businesses and workers cannot repay bank loans.
Savings accounts are wiped out.
Bank runs occur.
Banks run out of money and fail.
World Payments
Overall U.S. production plummets.
U.S. investors have little or no money to invest.
U.S. investments in Germany decline.
German war payments to Allies fall off.
Europeans cannot afford American goods.
Allies cannot pay debts to United States.

16. CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION LAISSEZ-FAIRE POLICIES
OVER PRODUCTION
DISPARITY OF WEALTH
CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION
STOCK MARKET CRASH
LAISSEZ-FAIRE POLICIES
OVERUSE OF CREDIT
WAR PAYMENTS &
TRADE IMBALANCE
TARIFFS

17. 1920s had been a time of great prosperity!
GQ#1 - How great was the impact of the Great Crash and the Great Depression on the USA?
1920s had been a time of great prosperity!

18. Which were most significant & why?
GQ#1 - How great was the impact of the Great Crash and the Great Depression on the USA?
What were the impacts?
Categories? Specifics?
Which were most significant & why?

19. Effects of Depression Chart

20. Effects of Depression Unemployment Massive poverty Businesses closed
1.2 m m 1932
Massive poverty
Businesses closed
5,500 banks closed
GNP from $104 B to $59 B
Farm Prices down 60%
25% unemployment
Depression/suicide

21. Effects of Depression Immigration? Political parties? Laissez-Fare?
International involvement?
Families?

24. Paper 1 Review Document Questions One hour – Read Docs Carefully!!!
Part A
2 docs – similarity & difference in light of a statement
Focus on Big message
15-20 Min
Part B
4 docs – How far do they support an assertion?
What s the Big Message of each
Evaluate reliability
Answer the Question
40 Min

25. Vocab Quiz #2
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26. End Four Minutes First Four Chart 4/13 – Thesis Statement
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4/13 – Thesis Statement
How similar were FDR’s and Hoover’s approaches to addressing the problems of the Great Depression?
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27. Compare/contrast the philosophy of each.
GQ#2 - How effective were the strategies used by Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt to deal with the domestic problems facing the USA in the 1930s?
Compare/contrast the philosophy of each.
Create a Venn diagram
½ group read each doc
Then share your findings
Be prepared to discuss with the class

28. Herbert Hoover Bold response Philosophically Opposed
Called for tax hike in 1931
1932 Reconstruction Finance Corporation & Public Works
Effects
Bonus Army

30. 1932 Election
Candidates
Result
Shift in Party Power – to whom?

32. Franklin D. Roosevelt Philosophy & Goals Brain Trust The Hundred Days
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
Relief
Recovery: industrial & agriculture
Reform
Brain Trust
Rejected laissez-faire
Competition of ideas
Eleanor Roosevelt
The Hundred Days

33. Alphabet Soup What is your agency or program?
What problem does it seek to address? How so?
Organize these by category. Explain
Organize by how radical or controversial they were. Explain
Organize by significance or importance in addressing the problems of the GD. Explain

34. The Hundred Days
Banking Crisis
Bank Holiday
Emergency Banking Act
Fireside chats
FDIC (Glass-Steagall Act)

35. The Hundred Days Relief Home Owners Loan Corp. Farm Credit Admin. CCC
FERA
CWA

36. For Recovery
NIRA
PWA
NRA: Business cooperation
AAA: subsidies
TVA*

37. For Reform & Regulation
Federal Securities Act
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
Buying on Margin

38. The Dust Bowl
Great Plains
Massive drought 1932-’34
Effect
Okies
The Grapes of Wrath

42. Good morning!
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43. End Four Minutes First Four Chart Date & label your work
4/15 “Share our Wealth”
Identify the origin, purpose, value, and limitations of the document.
Be prepared to discuss
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44. Unit Question: How do we react to change?
GQ#1 - How great was the impact of the Great Crash and the Great Depression on the USA?
GQ#2 - How effective were the strategies used by Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt to deal with the domestic problems facing the USA in the 1930s?
GQ#3 - How effective was the opposition to the New Deal?

45. Today’s Task GQ#3 - How effective was the opposition to the New Deal?
For your assigned program or course of action, create two visual advertisements.
One that promotes the program – Why is it needed? What will it do? How will it work?
One that criticizes the program – Why is it bad? What problems could it cause?
Be sure to clearly identify the problems the program is attempting to address and how it will or will not address those problems. Who would support it? Who would not?

46. Critics of the New Deal Conservatives Liberals
Deficit spending, Socialism
Supreme Court
NRA, AAA
Liberals
Father Charles Coughlin
Francis Townsend
Huey Long

47. New Deal Changes Course: The 2nd New Deal 1935-’36
Unity fading
Increasing criticism
FDR - business-class and wealthy
Focus on helping the most disadvantaged

48. The Second New Deal ‘35 Works Progress Admin. Harry Hopkins
$11 B for Pub. Works
Federal Writer’s Project
Federal Music Project
Federal Theater Project

49. Helping the Disadvantaged
FDR feared effect of liberal critics
Resettlement Administration
REA
Wagner Act - NLRB
Wealth Tax
Social Security Act*

50. Critics of New Deal & FDR Alf Landon
XIV Election
Critics of New Deal & FDR
Alf Landon

51. New Deal Coalition – cities, farmers, unions, women, Northern Blacks, Southerners, immigrants

52. Minorities & The New Deal
A mixed record
Programs often discriminated
FDR & NAACP Anti-Lynching Campaign
FDR’s Appointments
Symbolic gestures

53. Environment, the West, Indians
Efforts to stop soil erosion
Taylor Grazing Act ‘34
National Parks
Olympic N.P., Shenandoah N.P.
Dams
TVA, Hoover Dam, Grand Coulee
American Indians
Indian Reorganization Act ‘34

54. FDR & Supreme Court 1936 FDR’s Problem His Plan
“The Court Packing Scheme”
Reaction
Result
The Nine Old Men

56. End of the New Deal Roosevelt Recession ’37 Last ND legislation
Why?
FDR’s Response
Last ND legislation
Farm Security Admin
Housing Act ’37
Fair Labor Standards Act ’38
AAA ‘38
Growing conservative opposition
Over by 1939
World events would take center stage

57. XVII. Legacy of the New Deal
Did it work?
Creation of “welfare state”
Size & Cost of Federal Govt.
Power & Scope of Govt.
New Deal Coalition – Political realignment