Name: ______________________
Date: _______
Mr. Cerasi #1
Period: ______
AIM: What were the causes and effects of the Great Depression?
Do Now: How did an increase in wages help cause an economic boom?
What were the causes of the Great Depression?
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What were the effects of the Great Depression?
Write a reaction to the photo “Migrant Mother”, by
Dorothea Lange.
• For example, what emotions does it portray? Why?
• What do you suppose is happening?Use the space below
Hard Times:By the early 1930’s, approximately 25% of the nation was unemployed.
What types of things did people do to help ease the hard times?
Families in Crisis:What happened to families during the Great Depression?
Where did people find shelter? Describe this form of shelter?
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What forms of relief does Hoover provide?
• At first, President
Public worksHoover was against
offering direct
government relief.
• Instead, he asked private
charities, such as the
YMCA, to help.
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What was Hoover’s reaction to the Bonus Army?
Do you agree or disagree with Hoovers Response?
Closure:What is “ironic” about the breadline photograph? (Hint: Read the murals headline)
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Name: ________________________
Date: _________
Mr. Cerasi #-
Period: ________
AIM: How did the U.S. government attempt to correct the problems of the Great
Depression?
1928- Herbert Hoover feltthe depression is a natural cycle in the economy. Government should
not get involved in correcting the problem and it should run its course.
1932- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Government should take an active role in resolving the problems of
the nation.
Roosevelt gave 30 speeches while in office. He called them fireside chats because he spoke
from a chair near a fireplace in the White House. All across the nation, families gathered
around their radios to listen to Roosevelt. Many felt the President understood their problems.
Listen to FDR:What is the first area Roosevelt felt needs to be corrected?
Why were Roosevelt’s speeches so meaningful?
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During Roosevelt’s historic first ”Hundred Days,” a “bank holiday” was declared. All banks
were closed for four days. Banks were reopened that had sufficient funds to cover their
financial obligations. People felt more confident. Roosevelt continued his efforts by enacting a
series of programs, which he called his NEW DEAL.
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Complete the chart with the necessary facts of Roosevelt’s “alphabet programs.”
Program
Civilian Conversation
Corporation
Tennessee Valley
Authority
Federal Emergency
Relief Administration
Agricultural
Adjustment
Administration
Initials
Date
What the act was intended to do?
Program
Initials
Date
National Recovery
Administration
Public Works
Administration
Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation
Social Security Act
Closure:Was the New Deal good or bad for the country?
What the act was intended to do?
Name: _______________________
Mr. Cerasi #-
Date: _______
Period: ______
AIM: How did critics respond to the New Deal?
Critic
Arguments Against the New Deal
Political Spectrum
Senator Huey Long
Dr. Francis
Townshend
Liberty League
1935- Members of the Supreme Court began to attack the New Deal by overturning many New
Deal programs. After 1936 election, Roosevelt beat Republican, Alf Landon, Roosevelt called
for raising the number of Justices on the Supreme Court from 9 to 15. Critics accused him of
trying to “pack” the court with Justices who supported his views. He withdrew his proposal.
-Response to the 1937 cartoon on pg. 760. “Packing” the Supreme Court“
1) How does the cartoonist show that the court-packing plan caused a huge uproar?
2) According to the cartoonist, what was the impact of Roosevelt’s Supreme Court plan on party
loyalty?
Name: _______________________
Mr. Cerasi #-
Date: _______
Period: ______
AIM: How did the Dust Bowl affect the Midwest?
Do Now: Read the following section from John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.
“Carloads, caravans, homeless and hungry:…They streamed over the mountains, hungry and
restless,…restless as ants, scurrying to find work to do – to lift, to push, to pull, to pick, to cut –
anything, any burden to bear, for food. The kids are hungry. We got no place to live. Like ants
scurrying for work, for food, and most all for land.
We ain’t foreign. Seven generations back Americans, and beyond that Irish, Scotch,
English, German. One of our folks in the Revolution, an’ they was lots of our folks in the Civil
War – both sides. Americans.”
How many examples of tragedy can you identify? Name them
• During the 1930’s, the Great Plains suffered from deadly dust storms.
What were the causes of the Dust Bowl?
What were the effects of the Dust Bowl?
Who are migrant workers?
Homework: Please read textbook pages (766-769) and answer Assessment questions 4-6 in your
notebook.
-Create a political cartoon that might have appeared in an American newspaper in the 1930’s.
The cartoon should show the effects of the Great Depression on Dust farmers, working women,
African Americans, Mexican Americans, or creative artists.