1. The Great Depression and The New Deal Chapter 8 Lesson 2

2. The Good Times End  Stock market – where people buy and sell shares of businesses  New York Stock Exchange prices kept going higher  People invested all of their money in the stock market in the hopes of getting rich  When people later began to take their money out of the stock market, prices fell

3. The Good Times End  By 1929 thousands of investors wanted to sell their stocks  More sold stocks than bought them and prices fell sharply  October 29, 1929 – prices on the stock market crashed and many lost everything they had  This ended the good times of the Roaring Twenties  This was the beginning of the Great Depression

4. The Great Depression  The Great Depression – a long, hard period where industries do not grow and many people are out of work  During the Great Depression: Many people lost jobs & had no money Many lost their homes Lots of begging Soup kitchens for free meals

5. Franklin Roosevelt The New Deal  Franklin Roosevelt became President of the US in 1932  The New Deal – was his plan to end the Great Depression  The goal of the New Deal was to get people back to work

6. The New Deal  “ Roosevelt’s Alphabet Soup” – the number of programs created by government to help people get back to work  Form unions  Minimum wage  Social Security Act  Huge building projects – hydroelectric dams