1. Prosperity Shattered Hard Times Hoover’s Policies

2.  What is most money spent on during the 1920s?  What is the economic boom based on in the 1920s?  How did one man’s actions affect the condition of banks in 1928?  What affect does the stock market crash have on employment?  How does the Dust Bowl affect the health of men, women and children living on the plains?  What was the original purpose of developing Mount Rushmore?  What is Germany doing in Europe while America is going through the Great Depression?  How does boxer Joe Louis’ rematch against Germany reflect America’s attitude during the Great Depression?

3.  Look at pages 358 and 398 to answer the following questions: ◦ What is going on in this picture? Why? ◦ Does the picture display the state of the economy? How do you know? ◦ What is different about these two pictures?

4.  Describe why the stock market crashed in 1929.  Analyze the main causes of the Great Depression.

5.  Read over the paragraphs at the top of the sheet and follow the directions below.

6.  Era of prosperity becomes era of economic problems ◦ People use credit to help promote business ◦ Clash between a bull market and a bear market

7.  Bubble bursts on Black Thursday  Prices sink to shocking low on Black Tuesday

8.  People have trouble paying loans  Businesses are failing  Marking the beginning of the Great Depression

9.  Economic trouble in Europe  Smoot-Hawley Tariff has opposite affect on economy  What do historians think???

10. Prosperity Shattered Hard Times Hoover’s Policies

11.  Responses to the Depression Activity Sheet ◦ Individual (30 seconds each) ◦ Group (1 minute each)  Final Results ◦ #1)Most Reasonable: ◦ #1)Least Reasonable: ◦ #2)Most Reasonable: ◦ #2)Least Reasonable: ◦ #3)Most Reasonable: ◦ #3)Least Reasonable:

12.  Read over The Depression Takes Its Toll and answer the questions on the back.

13.  Describe how unemployment during the Great Depression affected the lives of American workers.  Compare and contrast the hardships that urban and rural residents faced during the depression.  Analyze how the Great Depression affected family life and the attitudes of Americans.  Explain how popular culture provided an escape from the Great Depression.

14.  By 1933 15 million are unemployed  Immigration decreases  Economic troubles add to discrimination  Women working increases  Most sell apples as a form of income

15.  Salvation Army and Red Cross provide relief  Mutualistas formed to look out for others  Breadlines allowed for a source of food  Malnutrition and homelessness are major problems

16.  During the Great Depression (1929-1941), for every 8 hours of the day 1 person would die due to malnutrition. How many people died during the Great Depression from malnutrition?

17.  Shantytowns were created to act as shelters

18.  Supply exceeds demand  Banks begin to foreclose on farms

19. URBANRURAL  Received aid from charities  Experienced hunger and homelessness  Mutual-aid organizations  Faced lower prices for food products  Forced to let crops rot  Faced farm foreclosures Experienced poverty Experienced diminished expectations

20.  Marriage rates and birthrates decline  Women have to provide for family in multiple ways  Depressions describe the economy and the mood

22. Prosperity Shattered Hard Times Hoover’s Policies

23.  Read the letter from Father Flye as he addresses the biggest concern of the Great Depression.  Answer the questions on the back.

24.  Explain why Hoover opposed government relief programs.  Outline the Hoover administration’s attempts to solve the economic problems of the depression.  Analyze why Franklin D. Roosevelt was such a popular candidate in the 1932 election.

25.  Believes in rugged individualism ◦ Build character, volunteer  Assist in relief efforts ◦ Community Chest ◦ Red Cross ◦ YMCA ◦ Salvation Army

26.  Public works projects (Hoover Dam)  Federal Farm Board allows government to hand out loans  Hope for a trickle effect

27.  Groups become more vocal ◦ Socialists, Communists encourage activism  Bonus Army and the shocking treatment to veterans

28.  Democrats choose Franklin D. Roosevelt  He promises a “new deal” in life