1. Unit 9: “Prosperity to Depression”
Note Packet 9-3
Coach Styles

2. Unit 9: Prosperity to Depression: NP 9-3
Election of 1932: Although several issues, among them __________, entered the presidential campaign of 1932, there was only ONE KEY ISSUE, which was correction of the ___________.
The Republican Party re-nominated _____________.
The Democrats nominated New York Governor ______________________.
F.D.R.’s Vice-Presidential running-mate was John Nance Garner.
Prohibition
Depression
Herbert Hoover
Franklin Delano Roosevelt

3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

4. Unit 9: Prosperity to Depression: NP 9-3
Platform
________ (def): A declaration of principles and policies adopted by a political party or candidate.
The Democratic platform was structured on 2 main points:
Strengthening the nation’s ____________ programs.
______________ to the needy.
Roosevelt stated that these “forgotten” Americans needed a “NEW DEAL.”
public works
DIRECT RELIEF

5. Unit 9: Prosperity to Depression: NP 9-3
_________ won the election in a landslide, by more than ____ electoral votes.
March 4, 1933: F.D.R. was inaugurated for the first time, outlining for the American people his “________” (def): F.D.R.’s plans to implement a total recovery of the U.S. economic system.
Roosevelt
400
New Deal

6. Unit 9: Prosperity to Depression: NP 9-3
In his first inaugural address, Roosevelt challenged the American people to face the future with courage and faith, declaring to Americans that “The only thing we have to fear is _________.”
fear itself

7. F.D.R.’s First Inaugural Address—March 4, 1933

8. Unit 9: Prosperity to Depression: NP 9-3
For thousands of families in the ___________ of the Midwest, the harsh conditions of the of the Depression were made much worse by a catastrophic _______ ________.
Beginning in 1930, a large area of the nation stretching north from ______ into the ________ began to experience a steady decline in _______ along with a blistering increase of intense _____.
This area was known as the “__________” (def): Region of the Great Plains where severe drought, dust storms, and intense heat devastated the region for much of the 1930s.
Great Plains
natural
disaster
Texas
Dakotas
rainfall
heat
Dust Bowl

9. The Dust Bowl

10. Major Dust Storm--Kansas

11. Major Dust Storm--Oklahoma

12. Unit 9: Prosperity to Depression: NP 9-3
MAJOR DUST STORMS
1934………22
1935………40
1936………68
1937………72
1938………61
1939………30
1940………17
1941………17

13. The Dust Bowl—What was left behind

14. Unit 9: Prosperity to Depression: NP 9-3
The Grapes of Wrath
A 1939 novel by John Steinbeck, ___________________, portrayed an Oklahoma family who, like thousands of others, lost their farm and were forced to travel to __________ in search of opportunity.
Relief for the victims of the Dust Bowl did not arrive until the early 1940s, when rains once again returned to the region and the demand of WWII drove farm prices up.
California