Vocab Quiz #1 Please get out any notes you have and be ready for today’s quiz. Please keep in mind your academic integrity.

Good After-Lunch! Please get out your Notes & First Four work Your Major Themes sheet Your chart on the impacts of the Great Depression

End Four Minutes First Four Chart 3/14 – Role of Government Should the national government help people in times of severe economic crisis? What would be the benefits of this and what might be the pitfalls? Keep this with all of your other First Four work. To change the timings of this timer, you need to enter the animation settings, and change the timings for the Isosceles Triangles. There will be 2 that need changing (to the same amount) – one animates the top triangle emptying, whilst the other animates the bottom triangle filling. When you change the timings these have to entered as a number of seconds. End

I see, I think, I wonder…

Good after lunch! Please get out any notes you may have from your homework reading. Be ready for a brief notes quiz. Please remember your academic integrity!

End Four Minutes First Four Chart 3/12 - Change Date & label your work 3/12 - Change Think of a time when your life changed dramatically. How did you react to this change? Keep this with all of your other First Four work. To change the timings of this timer, you need to enter the animation settings, and change the timings for the Isosceles Triangles. There will be 2 that need changing (to the same amount) – one animates the top triangle emptying, whilst the other animates the bottom triangle filling. When you change the timings these have to entered as a number of seconds. End

I see, I think, I wonder…

The Great Depression & The New Deal

Unit 4 How do we react to change? Great Depression & The New Deal Online Unit Vocab Assignments!!!

Guiding Question #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! 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!

Paper 2 Part A Practice Please write a response for the following question. Be prepared to share and turn in your work. (10 Min) Explain the reasons for the economic boom experienced by most Americans in the 1920s.

1920s Economy Republican control Return to Laissez-Faire after Progressive Era Stock Market & Buying on Margin Bull/Bear Market Role of Banks – speculators Superficial prosperity?

Why Such Prosperity in 1920s? Widespread use of credit Installment plans Buying on margin Access to electricity Mass production of new products Lower taxes after the war

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

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

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.

CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION LAISSEZ-FAIRE POLICIES of 1920s OVER PRODUCTION DISPARITY OF WEALTH CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION LAISSEZ-FAIRE POLICIES of 1920s STOCK MARKET CRASH OVERUSE OF CREDIT WAR PAYMENTS & TRADE IMBALANCE TARIFFS

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?

Excerpts Silently read your excerpt - 8 minutes Write down any specific impacts of the GD that you can identity. Use your chart as appropriate. Be prepared to describe your excerpt to the rest of the class & share your findings.

3A https://padlet.com/james_trotter/5wfqc34z7zse

4A https://padlet.com/james_trotter/rvtztsf1fqth

Effects of Depression Chart http://www.johndclare.net/America7.htm http://www.shmoop.com/great-depression/economy.html http://thegreatdepressioncauses.com/effects/ http://www.history.com/topics/1930s/photos#soup-kitchens-and-bread-lines http://www.ushistory.org/us/48e.asp http://faculty.washington.edu/gregoryj/dust%20bowl%20migration.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il849yFmTxw http://migration.ucdavis.edu/rmn/more.php?id=788_0_6_0 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1138638

Effects of Depression Unemployment Massive poverty Businesses closed 1.2 m 1929 12.1 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

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

Vocab Quiz #1 Please get out any notes you have and be ready for today’s quiz. Please keep in mind your academic integrity.

End Four Minutes First Four Chart Thesis Statement Date & label your work Thesis Statement How similar were FDR’s and Hoover’s approaches to addressing the problems of the Great Depression? Keep this with all of your other First Four work. To change the timings of this timer, you need to enter the animation settings, and change the timings for the Isosceles Triangles. There will be 2 that need changing (to the same amount) – one animates the top triangle emptying, whilst the other animates the bottom triangle filling. When you change the timings these have to entered as a number of seconds. End

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

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

Herbert Hoover Philosophically Opposed Bold response But… 1932 Reconstruction Finance Corporation Public Works Home Loan Bank Act Effects But… Called for tax hike in 1931 Hawley-Smoot Tariff Opposed Unemployment Ins. Bonus Army

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

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

Alphabet Soup What is your agency or program & what did it do? 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

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

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

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

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

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

Good morning! Please get out your notes and be ready for Vocab Quiz #3. Remember your academic integrity!!!

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 Keep this with all of your other First Four work. To change the timings of this timer, you need to enter the animation settings, and change the timings for the Isosceles Triangles. There will be 2 that need changing (to the same amount) – one animates the top triangle emptying, whilst the other animates the bottom triangle filling. When you change the timings these have to entered as a number of seconds. End

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?

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?

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

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

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

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

Critics of New Deal & FDR Alf Landon XIV. 1936 Election Critics of New Deal & FDR Alf Landon

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

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

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

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

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

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