1. the great depression

2. Election of 1928
-Herbert Hoover
“Two cars in every garage”
-20’s marked a reign of prosperity
-Hoover predicts the end of poverty

3. Stock Market Crash
-Warning Signs
Speculation
Buying on Margin
-Stock prices were inflated
-Oct 1929 prices begin to fall
-Oct 29, Black Tuesday Great Crash

4. Causes of Depression -Overproduction of goods
-Too much available credit
-less consumption of goods
-farm surplus
-high tariffs
-no banking regulations
-Hawley-Smoot Tariff, 1930
-everything became a chain reaction

5. Hard Times Hit Home
-Rural areas
foreclosure of farms, food supply, Dust Bowl
-Cities
shantytowns, soup kitchens, breadlines
-Family Life
men on the move, hardships of women, health of children,
-Social effects
more suicide, mental illness, dreams forsaken, ethics, hardwork

6. Hoover’s Resolve
-Rugged Individualism
-created gov’t agency to help business recover
-gave no direct relief to the people
-”Two families in every garage”
-Hoovervilles
-Bonus Army March on Washington
-Radicals begin to develop

7. Election of 1932
-Franklin Roosevelt
governor of NY
-Pledged a New Deal for the people
Help for the common man
-Democrats wins great majority in Congress
-Hoover remain a lame duck for several months
-Banking system was in a crisis

8. “Only Thing To Fear”
-1932 Inauguration Speech
“The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself”
-Public Relations
-Fireside Chats

9. A Call to Action
-Progressive programs
Experiment with solutions
-Group Effort
Eleanor Roosevelt
Brain Trust
-1st 100 Days

10. First New Deal -Bank Holiday -FDIC -SEC
-designed for recovery and relief
-deficit spending
-pump priming

11. Alphabet Soup
-FDIC
Federal Depositors Insurance Corporation
-SEC
Securities and Exchange Commission
-PWA
Public Works Administration
-CWA
Civil Works Administration

12. Alphabet Soup
-TVA
Tennessee Valley Authority
-CCC
Civilian Conservation Corp
-AAA
Agricultural Adjustment Act
-NRA
National Recovery Administration

13. Alphabet Soup
-TVA
Tennessee Valley Authority
-CCC
Civilian Conservation Corp
-AAA
Agricultural Adjustment Act
-NRA
National Recovery Administration

14. Dust Bowl
-great drought had hit the lower plains
-mid 1930’s wind storms started
-farms destroyed
-many people migrate to the west
migrant farm workers
“Okies”
-”Grapes of Wrath”
John Steinbeck

17. Not Enough Help
-By 1935 the economy has still not recovered
-there is enough relief to keep people from starving
-some people start to demand more action

18. New Deal Critics
-Father Coughlin
heavy taxes on the rich to provide income for all
-Huey Long
“Every man a King”
level income, home and college for all
-Francis Townsend
proposed income for elderly

19. More Programs
-programs to continue kelp for working class Americans and their families
-WPA
Works Progress Administration
-Social Security Act
old age pensions, unemployment, aid to families with children
-Rural Electrification Administration

20. More Programs
-programs to continue kelp for working class Americans and their families
-WPA
Works Progress Administration
-Social Security Act
old age pensions, unemployment, aid to families with children
-Rural Electrification Administration

21. NLRB Labor Relations -National Labor Relations Act---(Wagner Act) NLRB
right to unionize
anti-union practices banned
-Fair Labor Standards
minimum wage, 40 hour week
-Growth of AFL, CIO
NLRB

22. Court Packing
-Several New Deal programs ruled unconstitutional
AAA, NRA
-Roosevelt proposed adding new justices
-seen as a threat to checks and balances

23. Court Packing
-Several New Deal programs ruled unconstitutional
AAA, NRA
-Roosevelt proposed adding new justices
-seen as a threat to checks and balances

24. Women in the Depression
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-several women named to high gov’t positions
Francis Perkins
Sec. Of Labor
-working women faced resentment
-women’s wages still lower than men
-gov’t programs gave preferences to men

25. Women in the Depression
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-several women named to high gov’t positions
Francis Perkins
Sec. Of Labor
-working women faced resentment
-women’s wages still lower than men
-gov’t programs gave preferences to men

26. African Americans
-Mary McLeod Bethune
friend of Eleanor Roosevelt
established “Black Cabinet”
-Concert of Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial
-Roosevelt never fully committed to civil rights
-African Americans came to support the Democratic Party

27. Art and Literature
-many artists displayed the reality of the Depression
-Federal Arts Project (WPA)
-Grant Wood
American Gothic
-Richard Wright
Native Son
-John Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath

28. Art and Literature
-many artists displayed the reality of the Depression
-Federal Arts Project (WPA)
-Grant Wood
American Gothic
-Richard Wright
Native Son
-John Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath

29. Radio Entertains the Masses
-family entertainment
-soap operas
-Children’s Programs
Green Hornet, Lone Ranger
-Variety shows and plays
Bob Hope, George Burns
Orson Welles
“War of the Worlds”

30. Entertainment
-Marx Brothers
-Gangster films
- Frank Capra, Jimmy Stewart
”Mr. Smith goes to Washington”
”It’s a wonderful Life”

31. Motion Pictures
-Gone with the Wind, 1939
-Wizard of Oz, 1939
-Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, 1937

32. Motion Pictures
-Gone with the Wind, 1939
-Wizard of Oz, 1939
-Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, 1937

33. End of the New Deal
-”I see 1/3 of a nation ill -housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished”
-by 1937, some recovery
-gov’t pulls back programs and depression returns
-opposition grows to continued gov’t control
-international affairs begin to take precedence

34. End of the New Deal
-”I see 1/3 of a nation ill -housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished”
-by 1937, some recovery
-gov’t pulls back programs and depression returns
-opposition grows to continued gov’t control
-international affairs begin to take precedence