1. Warm Up
Define the following:
Credit
Loan
Stock
Invest

2. The Great Depression

3. Summary World trade declines, banks fail, high unemployment develops.
Urban and rural poverty ensues, leading to the construction of the New deal program.
This expands role of federal government and how it takes care of its citizens in a time of crisis.

4. Many found being broke humiliating.
Stock market crash
Didn’t realize the effect it would have
No money to replenish what was borrowed
Many found being broke humiliating.

5. The Roaring 20’s The new concept of “credit” People were buying:
Automobiles
Appliances
Clothes
Fun times reigned
Dancing
Flappers
Drinking

6. Why was this bad? Credit system WWI
People didn’t really have the money they were spending
WWI
The U.S. was a major credit loaner to other nations in need
Many of these nations could not pay us back

7. The Stock Market People bought stocks And those stocks fell
With people panicking about their money investors tried to sell their stocks
This leads to a huge decline in stocks
Stocks were worthless now

8. President Hoover Herbert Hoover was president at the start
Philosophy: We’ll make it!
What He Did: Nothing
The poor were looking for help and no ideas on how to correct or help were coming

9. What about the people? Farmers were already feeling the effects
Prices of crops went down
Many farms foreclosed
People could not afford luxuries
Factories shut down
Businesses went out
Banks could not pay out money
People could not pay their taxes
Schools shut down due to lack of funds
Many families became homeless and had to live in shanties

11. Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu2uJWSZkc
What is this?
First 2 minutes
A ________ in banks being able to pay
___________ the amount of poverty

12. Activity
Research three public programs created during the Great Depression. Write down the following: 1. Name, 2. Purpose, 3. Who was employed? 4. How did it help our economy?
Answer the Great Depression Packet and Reflection.
Due next class.

13. Video

14. Warm Up Define: relief, recovery, and reform.
How do these terms relate to the role of the government in economic crisis?
5 minutes

15. Many waited in unemployment lines hoping for a job.

16. People in cities would wait in line for bread to bring to their family.

17. Some families were forced to relocate because they had no money.

18. “Hooverville” Some families were forced to live in shanty towns
A grouping of shacks and tents in vacant lots
They were referred to as “Hooverville” because of President Hoover’s lack of help during the depression.

19. Hooverville

20. Out of the Dust:
The South
and the
Dust Bowl

21. A drought in the South lead to dust storms that destroyed crops.
“The Dust Bowl”

22. The South Was Buried Crops turned to dust=No food to be sent out
Homes buried
Fields blown away
South in state of emergency
Dust Bowl the #1 weather crisis of the 20th century

24. *FDR* When he was inaugurated unemployment had increased by 7 million.
Poor sections (like Harlem) had 50% of the pop. unemployed
Instated the “New Deal”
Yea! Frankie!

25. People everywhere were effected by the depression
It wasn’t till President Roosevelt took over and tried to put the economy back together that people even saw a glimmer of hope

26. Activity-The New Deal
Complete the PSA about FDR’s fireside chats to the public about the New Deal.
Due next class.

27. Warm Up
What role should the government play in an economic crisis?

28. Major Historical Happenings...
Jim Crow Laws
Scottsboro Trials
Recovering from the Great Depression
Racial Injustice
Poor South

29. Jim Crow Laws
After the American Civil War most states in the South passed anti-African American legislation. These became known as Jim Crow laws.
These laws included segregation in…
Schools -- Hospitals
Theaters -- Water fountains
Restaurants
Hotels
Public transportation
Some states forbid inter-racial marriages

30. To Kill a
Mockingbird

31. These laws were instituted in 1896 and were not abolished till the late 1950’s (even then still not completely).

32. Scottsboro Boys Trial
9 young African-American men (13-20) accused of raping 2 white girls in 1931
Immediately sentenced to death
Trials went on for nearly 15 years before all the men were dismissed

33. Started on a train bound for Memphis
Several white men boarded and picked a fight with the black men
Whites were forced off train by the 12 black men. The white men reported the the black men had raped two white girls on the train to authorities
They were immediately arrested and tried in front of an all-white jury.

34. The trials caused a huge uproar amongst the black community.

35. Harper Lee

36. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird in 1960
Based the story on her life growing up in Monroeville, Alabama
TKAM was the only novel she ever wrote

37. Video

38. Activity Read documents. Answer questions Complete graphic organizer.
Background: Poet Langston Hughes wrote about the lives and experiences of his fellow African Americans. He produced a volume of works based on the Scottsboro case.
Directions: Read the following poem and answer the following questions.
Complete Social Security PSA.
Read documents.
Answer questions
Complete graphic organizer.
ALL DUE AS HW NEXT CLASS

39. The End