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The Great Depression BeginsThe Great Depression Begins2222CHAPTERCHAPTER
Overview
Time Lines
Transparencies
Chapter Assessment
The Nation’s Sick Economy
Hardship and Suffering During the Depression
Hoover Struggles with the Depression
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SECTION 2
SECTION 3
THEMES IN CHAPTER 22
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Economic Opportunity
Immigration and Migration
“The illusory prosperity and feverish optimism which marked preceding years have given way to fearful economic insecurity and to widespread despair.”
Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr., 1931
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The American Dream
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“The illusory prosperity and feverish optimism which marked preceding years have given way to fearful economic insecurity and to widespread despair.”
Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr., 1931
What do you know?• What do you already know about the Great Depression?
• Have you ever discussed the Depression with a relative who lived through it? If so, what did he or she say?
Read the quote above and answer the following:
• What does La Follette suggest about the prosperity and optimism of the years preceding the Depression?
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The United States
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June 1930 The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act becomes law.
1931 Hoover proposes a one-year delay in repayment of war debts and reparations. Between 4 million and 5 million Americans are unemployed.
1932 The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is established.
1933 More than 13 million Americans are unemployed. Average annual income drops to $1,500 per family.
October 1929 The stock market crashes.
July 1930 Congress creates the Veterans Administration.
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The World
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1931 Austria suffers economic collapse.
September 1931 Japan occupies Manchuria.
September 1932 From prison, Mohandas K. Gandhi leads a protest against British policies in India.
1930 Army officers led by José Uriburu seize control of the government in Argentina.
1933 Adolf Hitler comes to power. Japan withdraws from the League of Nations.
1932 Ibn Saud becomes king of Saudi Arabia.
The Nation’s Sick Economy1
Learn About
economic problems affecting industries, farmers, and consumers at home and abroad.
To Understand
the causes of the Great Depression.
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Key Idea
Economic problems affecting industries, farmers, and consumers lead to the Great Depression.
The Nation’s Sick Economy1
Section Assessment1
What were some of the causes and effects of the 1929 stock market crash?
SUMMARIZING
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speculation buying on marginfalling stock
prices
loss of confidence
loss of savings
bank failureshigh
unemploymentworldwide depression
bankrupt businesses
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How did the economic trends of the 1920s help cause the Great Depression?
ANALYZING CAUSES
Assessment1
• what happened in industry • what happened in agriculture• what happened with consumers
THINK ABOUT
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The Nation’s Sick Economy1
Assessment1
Judging from the events of the late 1920s and early 1930s, how important do you think public confidence is to the health of the economy?
DRAWING CONCLUSIONS
• what happened when overconfidence in the stock market led people to speculate and buy on margin• what happened when lack of confidence caused people to sell stocks and close out bank accounts
THINK ABOUT
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Hardship and Suffering During the Depression2
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living conditions during the Great Depression.
To Understand
how people coped with hard times.
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Hardship and Suffering During the Depression2 HOME
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Key Idea
The Great Depression brings suffering of many kinds and degrees to people from all walks of life.
Hardship and Suffering During the Depression2
Section Assessment2
What groups of people were affected by the Great Depression? How were they affected?
SUMMARIZING
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GROUP EFFECTS OF DEPRESSION
urban poor lived in shantytowns, ate in soup kitchens or bread lines
African Americans experienced increased discrimination
Latino Americans
lost land and headed west
experienced increased discrimination
farmers
unemployed men wandered country looking for work
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Compare what happened to city dwellers and to farmers during the Great Depression. How was it similar and different?
COMPARING AND CONTRASTING
Assessment2
• what happened to their livelihoods• what happened to their homes• what help was available to them
THINK ABOUT
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Hardship and Suffering During the Depression2
Section Assessment2
How did the Dust Bowl affect the entire country?
RECOGNZING EFFECTS
• the effect on farmers on the plains• the effect on California and other states where the Okies resettled• the effect on the East
THINK ABOUT
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Hoover Struggles with the Depression3
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President Hoover’s response to the Great Depression.
To Understand
why the Hoover administration lost public support.
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Hoover Struggles with the Depression3 HOME
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Key Idea
President Hoover tries to restore confidence and halt the Depression, but his actions are ineffective.
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Section Assessment3
What did President Hoover say and do in response to the Depression?
SUMMARIZING
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
“Any lack of confidence in the
economic future . . . is foolish.”
“rugged individualism”
Federal Home Loan Bank Act
Federal Farm Board
Boulder Damsending of troops
against Bonus Army
public-works programs
HOOVER’S RESPONSES
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How did Hoover’s belief in “rugged individualism” shape his policies during the Depression?
ANALYZING ISSUES
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• what that belief implies about government action• Hoover’s policies• whether those policies were consistent with his beliefs
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Assessment3
When Franklin Delano Roosevelt heard about the attack on the Bonus Army, why was he so certain that Hoover was going to lose?
CLARIFYING
• the American public’s impression of Hoover• Hoover’s actions to fight the Depression• how people judged Hoover after the attack
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Chapter 22 Assessment
1. How did what happened to farmers during the 1920s foreshadow events of the Great Depression?
2. Why was uneven distribution of income bad for the economy?
3. What were some of the effects of the stock market crash in October 1929?
4. What effect did the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act have on the economy and why?
5. How were shantytowns, soup kitchens, and bread lines a response to the Depression?
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Chapter 22 Assessment
6. Why did minorities often experience an increase in discrimination during the Great Depression?
7. What pressures did the American family experience during the Depression?
8. Why did Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon believe that the government should do nothing about the Depression?
9. How did Hoover’s treatment of the Bonus Army affect his standing with the public?
10. In what ways did Hoover try to use the government to relieve the Depression?
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