The Great Depression and the New Deal

The Great Depression and the New DealAmanda BreonAnd Courtney KingThesisOur thesis was to summarize the Great Depression and the New Deal.The Stock Market CrashOctober 24th 1929Black Tuesday

Business CycleThe Great Depression1929-1941What Caused the Great Depression?Over production in FactoriesLoaning money that couldnt be paid backDefaultBankruptcyUnemployment- 13 million people unemployed

The Impact of familiesFathers

Others

Married

Children

What did Hoover do?What he thought of government aidSoup Kitchens1932 Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

The Bonus Army1924

1932/desperate for their money

Hoovers refusal to pay

Hoovers bad reputation

Franklin D. Roosevelt1920

Diagnosed with polio

1928

Four years later ran for president

A new Deal For the American People

The New Deal? Good or Bad?GoodHelped problemsRestored government faithEmployed jobless people, ending banking crisis, and reformed stock market

BadThreaten individual freedomLots of power to the federal government.Relief for the joblessNew deal measures

Relief to jobless

Economic recover

Preventing future depressions

Helping the unemployment and financial aid

Providing JobsCivilian conservation corps (CCC)

The young men

Works progress administration (WPA)

Promoting Economic RecoveryNational Recovery Administration (NRA)Goal:failure:Public works administration (PWA)Grants:Improves:Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)CongressGiant dams, cheap electricity, increased jobs

Women in the DepressionWorkplace

Competition

Teachers of librarians.

First active lady

Eleanor Roosevelt

Why did she start speaking?

Transformed roles

African AmericansSouthCotton pricesEmploymentHalf the African Americans were unemployed The Indian New Deal1924John CollierCitizenship to Native Americans

Dust BowlBlack Blizzards

To the westLeft homeokies

Art and MediaThe Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Arts

Movies and radioSocial SecurityOld age insurance

Aid to dependent children (ADC)Lasting Labor ReformsNew Laws

Wagner act

Collective BargainingVideohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig5Qg-_jvaw Work CitedAmerica History Of Our Nation Civil War to the Present. Boston, MA: Pearson Prentic Hall, 2007.Youtube. 3 Apr. 2007. 18 May 2009 .Modern American Poetry. 18 May 2009 .The Great Depression. Sept. 2002. 18 May 2009 .