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ECONOMY IN THE LATE 1920S Stock market increased value Unemployment below 4% “Everybody ought to be rich” John Raskob invest Chapter 16 Crash and Depression 1929-1933 (pages 474-504)
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Business begin Welfare Capitalism Increased Wages Healthcare Paid Vacations
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Signs of Trouble Uneven riches-rich get richer and poor get poorer Mainly Big Businesses 80% of Families had no savings Buying on credit New appliances Installment buying
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Playing the Market Life Savings Buy on the Margin-Credit Too many Goods, too little demand Farmers had hard times Decreased demand for food overseas
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The Stock Market Crash Stocks valued higher than their worth Stock prices drop-buyers become worried Oct. 29, 1929 stocks plummet People try to sell stocks Some people lost money others lost their life savings Brokers and Banks call in loans
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Effects of the Crash Ripple effect Factories close Unemployment Small businesses hurt Agricultural prices decrease Banks collapse Rush of depositors
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U.S. Depression Affects the World Allies had to pay war debts Germany had to reparations but couldn’t without U.S. help Tariffs high on Imports could not sell goods Global downward spiral
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Social Effects of the Depression Affected White collar and Blue collar workers Hoovervilles-shanty towns Farm Distress Decreased prices Sharecroppers and tenant Farmers kicked out Destroyed goods Dustbowl Drought/dust storms on the Great Plains Left farms and moved to California for migrant farmer jobs
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The Dust Bowl
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Health Problems Lack of Food-Sickly people, especially children Grew food in the South Tried to sell odds and ends Picked trash cans
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Family Problems Moved in together Men felt like failures-ashamed Marriages postponed Women worried about feeding kids Men thought women were taking their jobs
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Discrimination Increased African Americans moved north as janitors and porters Had to get private help-Government discriminated Southerners said African Americans stole white jobs Lynchings increased Denied civil rights Scotsboro boys
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Surviving the Great Depression People helped each other Farmers bought farms and gave them back to their owners Moves to the left Some became socialists but not many Looking Ahead Humor-Hoover blankets etc
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Prohibition Repealed 21 st Amendment Increased production in some industries Empire State Building End of an Era The Babe, Al Capone, Henry Ford, and Calvin Coolidge
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Election of 1932: A Turning Point in History Hoover’s Voluntary Action Hoover Dam Tariffs John Maynard Keyes Veteran’s March Bonus Army
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The Bonus Army
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The New Deal FDR Harvard New York State Senate Assistant Secretary of the Navy Polio Became Governor
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FDR
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Political Cartoon
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Eleanor Roosevelt Teddy’s niece and FDR’s distant cousin Worked at settlement house Women’s Rights Many people voted against Hoover
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Eleanor
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