warm up 3/9/15

• Finishing the game… Multiple your stocks by the value posted on the last event. Subtract the $500 you got at the start. Total is your profit or loss! Tape it into your notebook.

• read about Hoovervilles on 682 – 683. The man in the suit doesn’t seem to fit in yet he lives there. What do you think his story is?

causes of the Great Depressionp. 671

long term: economic events that laid a weak

foundation• poor distribution of

wealth

-top 5% of the wealthy earned 70% of the income

• People bought new products on credit

• Spending $$ • industry struggled

short term: financial events that caused stress

• big in stock market• buying stocks on credit• speculation in stocks• stock prices rose too

high

rest of notesheet

• p. 678 is good place to start• at least 2 bullets for each heading• use the picture on p. 678 for facts also• #3 Dust bowl section: There are 2

questions to answer. Put an * next to the 2nd question & next to where you wrote the answer

• #4 start on p. 689 – top paragraph, 2nd column

• New expectations of govt: describe the 3 R’s

• Homework!! VOCAB ASSIGNMENT: cut out and match the definitions to the words. glue into your notebook using “Great Depression & pre-WWII” as the title

• Tape/Glue in sideways – it will fit better

Great Depression & pre-WWIIHerbert Hoover Hoovervilles Dust Bowl

Stock Market Crash Buying on Margin Great Depression

breadlines New Deal programs

purchasing stocks with loans from stock brokers

President blamed for the Great Depression

Shantytowns/shacks that sprung up where homeless people lived

severe economic downturn

value of stocks fell dramatically and ruined many individual investors

proof that many people could not afford food

Area of the Great Plains states hit hard by drought and winds in the 1930’s

Pres. Roosevelt’s plan to bring relief to those suffering during the Great Depression

warm up 3/10/15

1. ____________ was president when the Great Depression began.

2. __________ was president who came up with a plan to help those hurt by the Great Depression.

3. ______________ was the name of the plan to help bring relief and recovery from the Great Depression.

3/10/15• AVID – izing yesterday’s notes!

– Circle one long term cause of the Great Depression

– Box the % of unemployment during the Great Depression

– Underline one effect of the depression on the world

– Circle one state people went to because of the Dust Bowl

– Write one question in the space next to Hoovervilles about anything on the notesheet.

Finish #4 on weds organizer

• Hoover

3 – 10 - 15

• Read about the Bonus Army on p. 687. Fill in the 2nd square on the bottom of the graphic organizer.

• Do you think they had the right to protest and demand the money?

Changes in the expectations of government• What did the

New Deal do?

• Programs to provide relief & help the country recover from the Great Depression p. 712

1. Social Security Act

-$ for retired workers

-$ for unemployed

-payroll taxes fund this program today

2. Tennessee Valley Authority (p. 706)

– helped poor farmers in NC & TN3. AAA – paid farmers to cut

production

Changes in the expectations of government• What did the

New Deal do?

• How come some people did not like the New Deal?

4. CCC – jobs for young men 18 – 25

• thought FDR was abusing his power• thought govt was interfering too much

in business & personal lives• 1 powerful opponent was Huey Long

– he wanted more help for families instead of businesses

Changes in the expectations of government• Why did

FDR try to change the Court system?

• Different people began to lead the government

• courts ruled that some of his early programs were unconstitutional

• FDR wanted to add more judges – ones that would agree with his plans: COURT PACKING

• MANY people disagreed with this plan, hurt his popularity

• Frances Perkins – 1st woman to be a Secretary in the Cabinet (Labor)

• Eleanor Roosevelt – FDR’s wife who became his eyes and ears to problems & supported women’s causes

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• 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944

summary• what different things did people expect from the

government following the FDR’s New Deal plan?

• women have a voice in government• African Americans will get more rights & bigger voice• looked to govt to help spur economy if needed, not

necessarily business• looked to govt for welfare assistance, not churches or

businesses

Weds 3/11/15

• warm up

• quiz

warm up 3/11/15• If the New Deal didn’t fix the Great

Depression, then why is it remembered as a significant government program?

• It gave people hope that the government was trying to help. It provided jobs and welfare for those needing it the most. It did great public work like parks, highways, electricity to rural areas. We still benefit today from some of the projects. We still have Social Security and banking insurance today.

welcome back! 3/23/15

List 6 facts from the 1920s, Great Depression or New Deal. Jogging your memory about what we were learning before break!

1920s

•Banned Asian

immigrants

•KKK

•prohibition

•Jazz Age

•Flappers

•Bootleggers

•Harlem Renaissance

•Stock market rises

•Inventions

•Buying things on credit

•Businesses doing well

• Migration

• Prohibition

• Hoover

• Farmers

struggling

• Overproducti

on

1930s Stock market crashed

•Dust Bowl

•Riding the rails

•New Deal Programs

•Shanty Towns

•Social Security

•Hoovervilles

•Great Depression

•FDR

•Banks closed

3/25/15• No warm up today. Take 5 minutes and read

through your notebook. Notebook due Friday. Make sure everything is glued in and complete BEFORE class tomorrow.

• After the test, write down the WWII vocab on the BACK of your next blank page. On the FRONT on that page you will create a cover page.