1. QOTD
How did Langston Hughes contribute to African-American Culture in the 20th Century?
A      He was a popular urban progressive politician.
B       He was an innovative musician who created jazz.
C      He was a prominent poet in the Harlem Renaissance.
D      He was the founder of the Back to Africa Movement.

2. QOTD
How did Langston Hughes contribute to African-American Culture in the 20th Century?
C      He was a prominent poet in the Harlem Renaissance.

3. Today’s Standard SSUSH17
Analyze the causes and consequences of the Great Depression.

4. Severe Economic Decline in the United States 1929 - 1941
The Great Depression

5. A False Prosperity 1) The 1920s was a time of prosperity for the U.S.
By the end of the 20s, Americans were buying and investing with total confidence
Economists were worried but no one payed attention
1929 – 4 million Americans own stock
Herbert Hoover – an optimistic president who held to the view that the government shouldn’t interfere with the economy

6. President Herbert Hoover

7. Unknown Problems Beneath
Things weren’t really as good as they looked
2) Lots of Americans were buying on credit
By 1929, purchases on credit reached $7 billion
People were buying and selling based on overconfidence and speculation
3) Farmers overproduced crops in large numbers thinking they would all be bought up
4) margin buying – buying stock with borrowed money
A lot of people were in debt
Things looked so good they just figured it would always be ok…

8. Stock Market Crashes October 29th, 1929 5) Black Tuesday
Prices began to plummet fast
Investors panicked, sold their stock and pulled out
The Stock Market Crash of 1929
Many however were still in debt from buying on margin
By mid-November investors lost $30 BILLION
6) The Great Depression begins…

9. 3 Causes of the Great Depression
7) A) Farmers produced more than they could sell
B) Credit was too easy to obtain and too many people had it
C) Too little money was in the hands of the working- class, who made up most of the consumers

10. Effects of the Depression
1) 25% of U.S. Banks failed
85,000 Businesses failed
Unemployment rate rose to 25%
Many people lost everything and were homeless

11. The Dust Bowl 2) Farmers in the Midwest couldn’t escape either
3) Over-plowed farmland became massive fields of dirt
Then came the drought – a severe shortage of water, making the soil dust
Severe dust storms hit
4) The Dustbowl

12. Hoover Tries to Solve The Problem
President Herbert Hoover
Becomes president in 1928
The Depression starts in his administration
5) He tried to encourage Americans but doesn’t want to use government intervention
His “hands-off” approach fails
He is blamed for the Depression
6) Hoovervilles

13. Hoovervilles

14. A Change In Leadership 7) Franklin D. Roosevelt Elected in 1932
8) Roosevelt promises a “New Deal” for America
To be continued…

15. Unit 7 Study Guides So Far…
1) The Roaring 20s
2) The Harlem Renaissance
3) The Great Depression

16. QOTD
How did human factors contribute to the environmental devastation caused by the Dust Bowl?
A      Industry cleared farmland to build more factories.
B       Farmers cleared forests for farmland, drying up soil.
C      Factory pollution poisoned water used for irrigation.
D      Farmers didn’t rotate crops, leading to erosion.

17. QOTD
How did human factors contribute to the environmental devastation caused by the Dust Bowl?
D      Farmers didn’t rotate crops, leading to erosion.

18. Today’s Standard SSUSH18
Describe Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal as a response to the Depression.

19. Restoring Hope
1932
President Franklin D. Roosevelt has a big task ahead of him
1) The Great Depression
His response – The New Deal
2) a “hands-on” approach
A) Re-open banks
B) Create new jobs
C) Give aid and relief to the unemployed

20. Tennessee Valley Authority
3) Tennessee was the location of one of the most important New Deal programs
4) The Tennessee Valley Authority
Improved the standard of living in the Tennessee River Valley
Prevented floods with dams
Brought electricity to citizens

21. Opposition to the New Deal
Not everyone agreed with the New Deal
5) Many thought the New Deal made the government too powerful.
6) Huey Long – the most popular critic of FDR
Long wanted a minimum income and a home for all American families
7) Share-Our-Wealth
Long is assassinated in 1935

22. The Second New Deal
Roosevelt is still popular in the middle of his term
Passes a second wave of reforms
1) he Second New Deal
2) August 1935 – Congress passes the Social Security Act
Has three parts
A) Retirement compensation for ages 65 and up
B) Unemployment compensation system
C) Aid to families with dependent children, the disabled, and the elderly

23. The Wagner Act Protects Unions
1935
3) The Wagner Act
Guarantees protection for laborers that were a part of unions
Union memberships skyrocket

24. The “Court Packing” Bill
Election of 1936
Roosevelt easily wins
4) He then wanted to reform the Supreme Court
At that time, the Court had nine justices, 6 of which were 70 years of age or older
Roosevelt wants to add 6 justices
5) The “court packing” bill
Both Democrats and Republicans were outraged
It never passed

25. The New Deal - The Good
Some thought the New Deal was good, others not so good
6) Supporters believed it created hope by supplying jobs and boosting income
Protected the rights of laborers
Established standards for working conditions

26. The New Deal - The Bad
7) Critics felt that the New Deal created a welfare system
The government supplies peoples’ needs instead of the people doing it themselves
Did the New Deal work?
The question never gets answered
The U.S. enters another world war in 1941

27. Today’s Standard SSUSH18
Describe Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal as a response to the Depression.

28. The New Deal - The Bad
7) Critics felt that the New Deal created a welfare system
The government supplies peoples’ needs instead of the people doing it themselves
Did the New Deal work?
The question never gets answered
The U.S. enters another world war in 1941

29. America: The Story of Us - BUST
1) Education
2) Unknown
3) 20-25,000 people were gathered around the bank
4) It fails
5) Banks
6) The Hoover Dam
7) Carbon Monoxide

30. America: The Story of Us - BUST
8) Pipes laid into the dam
9) Las Vegas
10) Dust Bowl
11) Sand
12) $25 million
13) Radio
14) Mt. Rushmore
15) Lightning

31. America: The Story of Us – BUST - answers
16) George Washington; Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt
17) WWII
18) 57 million
19) Schmeling
20) Over 100 million
21) 124 sec.
22) WWII