1. Thankful Thursday 01/19/2017
Bell ringer: Please do the following quickly and quietly
Take a handout from the counter
Have a seat and begin answering the questions on your handout
When you are done discuss your answers and make revisions if necessary
Then…wait patiently and quietly for further instructions 

2. Chapter 14

3. Section 1:Causes of the Depression
Prosperity Hides Troubles
Speculation goes too far
Lower class struggles throughout the 1920s
The Stock Market Crash
“Crash of 1929”, Black Tuesday
What happened? (p. 228)
Smoot-Hawley Tariff: raised customs duties after crash
America recalls loans from France and Britain who call on loans from Germany…and that’s how the cookie crumbled…

4. Section 1:Causes of the Depression
The Great Depression Begins
Hoover:
stick to laissez-faire.
Government intervention leads weakens character
What caused the Great Depression? Give specific examples.

5. Section 2: Americans Face Hard Times
Misery and Despair Grip America’s Cities
GNP decreases
Thousands of businesses fail
1/4 of a million banks failed
Loss of jobs  loss of savings  mortgage foreclosures…
Poverty Devastates Rural America
1.5 million farms went under
The “Dust Bowl”
Few Americans Escape Hard Times
10+ million lost their jobs

6. Section 3: Hoover’s Response Fails
Cautious Response to Depression Fails
Laissez-faire method isn’t working
Hoover Adopts More Activist Policies
Requested businesses to stop laying off workers
Cut taxes
Increases public work projects
Hoover Dam!
Paused war payments
Bought surplus crops
Refused any type of payment to unemployed
“Trickle Down” theory
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Loaned to banks & businesses

7. Section 3: Hoover’s Response Fails
Americans Protest Hoover’s Failures
“Hoovervilles”
“Bonus Expeditionary Force”
40,000 vets and families caped outside of D.C.
Bonus Army sent to disperse them

8. Table of Contents 14 The Great Depression Outline for 14 02/04
Movie Notes
02/05
Unemployment Chart
The Dust Bowl
02/08
Causes/Effects of Great Depression
Historians apprentice, p. 229
Viewpoints
02/09
Bonus Army, p. 467
Grapes of Wrath, p.469

9. Chapter 15 New Deal

10. FDR Offers Relief and Recovery
Roosevelt Takes Charge
“New Deal”
Seen as “one of them” someone who could overcome challenges
Campaigned “Happy Days are Here Again”
Fireside Chats

11. FDR Offers Relief and Recovery
The First Hundred Days Provide Instant Action
“Relief, Recovery, Reform”
“Bank Holiday”
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)= safe to deposit savings again
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)= watch the stock market, prevent fraud
Work relief:
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)= planting trees and draining swamps
PWA & CWA: built highways, bridges, hospitals, airports, etc.

12. FDR Offers Relief and Recovery
Agriculture Adjustment Act
Loans for farmers
Tennessee Valley Authority
Pump Priming
National Industrial Recovery Act= aid for industries and led to the NRA (National Recovery Admin.)
Regulated industries, their work hours, etc.
Agricultural Adjustment Acts (1 & 2)

13. The Second New Deal Extending Social and Economic Reform
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Social Security Act
Unemployment insurance
Retirement benefits
Disabled and orphaned
National Labor Relations Act (aka Wagner Act)
Labor Unions Find a New Energy
“Sit-Down” Strike
General Motors, gov’t does not intervene
Chart: 2nd New Deal p. 489

14. The Second New Deal Challenges to the New Deal
Roosevelt caught a lot of backlash
was called a “traitor to his class”
Some believed he didn’t do enough (Huey Long)
Supreme Court and their rulings of unconstitutional on the NIRA and the AAA.
Roosevelt wanted to appoint a new Justice to the Court for each Justice who didn’t retire by the age of 70 (he would have appointed 6 Justices)
New Deal ends
After Court-packing attempt

15. Culture of the 1930s Movies and Radio Captivate Americans
“Talkies” provide an escape
Gone with the Wind
The Wizard of Oz
The New Deal and the Arts
Supported throughout the New Deal
Art for new public buildings etc.
Music: Woody Guthrie
The Literature of the Depression
John Steinbeck= The Grapes of Wrath
Dorothea Lange= brought the harshness of Depression to life
Langston Hughes
Walker Evans= focus on tenant farmers in Alabama
Margaret Bourke White = Life Magazine