1. Do Now: How does the economic cycle work?
Unit 11 The Depression
Do Now: How does the economic cycle work?

2. Economic Cycle
Prosperity
Recovery
Recession
Depression

3. I. Causes of the Depression
A. Overproduction
1. Farmers (since the end of WWI)
2. Factories
A) Demand decreases
B. Distribution of Wealth
1. 1% controls $
A) Not spending enough
2. Lower Class scraping by
C. Credit Problems
1. America has too much debt
2. Installment Buying
3. Buying On Margin

4. D. Stock Market Crash 1. Speculation 2. Black Tuesday
A) Prices plunged
B) Panic Selling

5. II. Effects A. Banks Collapse B. Businesses Close
C. Massive Unemployment
D. Hawley-Smoot Tariff
E. Becomes Global

6. III. Hardships
A. No jobs
B. No food
C. Starvation
D. Homelessness

7. EQ: What effects did the economic crisis have on citizens?
HW#5 P P. 721 chkpt, P. 722 chkpt, P. 724 chkpt, P Critical Thinking #6
Do Now: What caused the Great Depression?

8. EQ: What hardships did Families face?
Do Now: 1. List as many hardships as you can from the video clip?
2. What strategies did they use to cope?

9. Family Hardships Delay marriage Can’t go to college Buying homes
Middle class become the new poor
Evictions
Living in cars

10. coping Eating soup Gathering coal Feet in the oven Kids taking jobs
Moving Hoovervilles
Dance Marathons

11. Sample Slide with Image
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1) Describe what you see in this picture.
2) When and where do you think this picture was taken?
Explain your answer.

12. E. Farmers 1. Default on Loans 2. Banks Foreclosed
3. Become Tenant Farmers
4. Dust Bowl
5. Okies & Arkies

13. Dust Storms
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14. Displacement and Migration
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Right image source:
Migrant family in San Francisco, 1935
Farmer leveling dust hills in Texas, 1938

15. EQ: How did the government respond to the economic crisis?
HW#6 P & fill in graphic organizer
 Do Now: How were minority groups affected by the crisis? (pick a group and write down a fact about how each was impacted)

16. F. Employed fears
G. Women
H. Minorities
1. African-Americans
2. Asian-Americans
3. Mexican-Americans
A) repatriation

17. IV. Hoover’s response A. Republican B. Economic policy
1. Laissez Faire
2. Volunteerism
A) private charities
B) wealthy Americans
3. localism
C. Depression deepens
1. Trickle-down economics
2. RFC – Reconstruction Finance Corporation

18. D. Protests
1. Cry for socialism
2. Fascist leaders rise
3. Bonus Army

19. V. FDR A. Bio 1. Wife Eleanor 2. Polio 3. Gov. NY 4. New Deal
B. Brain Trust

20. Do Now: Audio Clip 1. What is it. 2. What was the main point of it. 3
Do Now: Audio Clip 1. What is it? 2. What was the main point of it? 3. What did it hope to achieve?

21. C. First 100 Days 1. 15 bills passed 2. 3R’s A) Relief B) Recovery
C) Reform
3. Emergency Banking Bill
A) Bank Holiday
4. Fireside Chats

22. D. Opposition to the New Deal
1. Right – too much gov’t
A) Republicans
B) Liberty League
2. Left – not enough gov’t
A) Francis Townsend
B) Charles Coughlin
C) Huey Long

23. Do Now: What obstacles did minorities face during the depression
Do Now: What obstacles did minorities face during the depression? How did the new deal treat minorities?

24. EQ: What’s the government’s responsibility to its people
EQ: What’s the government’s responsibility to its people? HW: Debate prep and Castle Quiz Do Now: 1. If people are out of work (either retired or disabled or otherwise unable to find work), should they receive money from the government (which comes from tax money)?

25. D. Second New Deal 1. Keynesian economics – deficit spending
A) pump priming
2. Programs
A) WPA
B) Social Security
C) REA
3. Labor Reforms
A) Wagner Act
B) Fair Labor Standards Act
C) CIO created
1. sit-down strikes

26. E. Supreme Court Challenges
1. Many Acts found unconstitutional
A) NRA – Schechter Poultry Corp v. US
B) AAA – US v. Butler
2. Court Packing
A) Increase judges by 6

27. F. Recession of 1937

28. EQ: What’s the government’s responsibility to its people
EQ: What’s the government’s responsibility to its people? HW: DBQ PRep Do Now: 1. Failures on the left, Successes on the right. 2. Stanford Docs