1. The Great Depression, Hoover and Roosevelt

2. First Up- What was the Dust Bowl? Was it the first college bowl game- sponsored by Pledge? Nope

3. Read About the Dust Bowl and Answer the Questions

5. What Were the Causes?

6. What Were the Effects?

21. How About a Movie?

22. How was Life Outside of the Dust Bowl?

23. Life During the Depression 5. Bank failures by 1933: over 9,000 Unemployed in 1933: 12 million or 25% 6. Family income dropped from $2,300 in 1929 to $1,600 a few years later.

24. 7. Breadlines & Soup Kitchens Unemployed AND homeless would line up for free food offered by charities

25. 7. Breadlines & Soup Kitchens

26. 8. Hoovervilles Shantytowns of make- shift shacks built by homeless people on abandoned or public land.

27. 8. Hoovervilles

28. Hoover got the blame.

29. 9. Hobos Hundreds of thousands wandered- hitchhiking, walking or “riding the rails.” They camped in “hobo jungles.”

30. 9. Hobos

31. 10. Hoover Responds: Review Your Previous Assignment

32. 10. Describe at Least Two Actions that May Have Cost Hoover the 1932 Presidential Election:

33. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Defeats Hoover in 1932 Former progressive gov. of New York (D) “I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.”

34. 11. Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) “…the only thing we have to fear is fear itself…”

35. 11. Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) What did FDR mean when he said this? (What’s going on at the time…)

36. 11. Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) By 1933 more than 9,000 banks had failed (43%) 38 states closed banks He means that fear leads to bank runs which makes situation worse- sound familiar?

37. Hoover vs. FDR Hoover tried to calm the public to avoid more bank runs- so what was the difference? FDR had a plan- a bold, big plan (or he was at least working on it…)

39. 12. The Hundred Days March 9 – June 16, 1933 = the Hundred Days Congress passes 15 acts to fight the Depression Later known as the First New Deal.

40. 12. The Hundred Days Roosevelt pushed congress to pass laws to restore confidence in the banks, combat overproduction and put people back to work. He focused on the 3 R’s: relief, recovery 7 reform.

42. 13. What Increased Under Roosevelt’s New Deal? Think of the cartoon… The size and role of the federal government! (and people’s confidence in the govt. & economy)