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Agenda: Yee Haw Game
Great Depression Vocabulary
Great Depression and New Deal
1. Black Tuesday
2. Deficit spending
3. Great Depression
4. Hoovervilles
5. Dust Bowl
6. Dorothea Lange
7. penny auctions
8. Twenty-first Amendment
9. Hawley-Smoot Tariff
10. Reconstruction Finance Corporation
11. Bonus Army
12. speculation
13. New Deal
14. hundred days
15. Public Works program
16. Frances Perkins
17. Second New Deal
18. Wagner Act
19. closed shops
20. social security system
21. Fair labor Standards Act ( 544)
22. Father Coughlin
23. Huey Long
24. National Debt
25. The Grapes of Wrath ( 556)
Reminders:
• Vocabulary Quiz
Friday.
• You must make up
your hours if you
owe them!
• Spiral Check 1/13
Agenda: Causes of
Great Depression
What is a Depression?
– Depression – a sharp & sustained decline in economic
activity
Great Depression – longest/worst in economic history
• Depression did not occur in 1 day - progressive
• Oct. 29, 1929 – stock market crashed
– Had been steadily growing weaker
– Oct. 24 began “panic selling” of stocks
– Stock prices dropped 2/3
• Economy reached bottom in 1932
5 causes of the Great Depression
You need to read as a table team pg 302- top 306 and take notes over
using the note sheet provided.
When you are finished you need a piece of white paper out of the
tray on the bookshelf & to draw & color the causes of the Great
Depression
#1
#2
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#5
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#5
Reminders:
• Vocabulary Quiz
Friday.
• Spiral Check 1/13
Agenda:
Grading Causes
Worksheet
Two Presidents
Approaches
Causes of Great Depression
1.Summarize Explain why the large gap between the rich and the poor led to economic instability
The wealthy few could not purchase the mass quantities that were being purchased. There was a
problem of overproduction of goods and under consumption by the less wealthy.
The Stock Market Hits Bottom: Text
2.Identify Cause and Effect What role did credit and speculation play in the stock market crash?
Americans easily purchased goods and stocks on credit allowing debt to be built up, and not realizing
that if the market crashed all would be lost.
3.Use Visual Information on page 304 & 305 How do the photographs in “The Stock Market Hits
Bottom” help you understand the effect of the stock market crash of 1929?
Causes of Great Depression
• People lost their jobs &
homes
• Hawley Smoot Tariff
• Bank failures
5.
Summarize What was the goal of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff? Was the tariff
successful? To reboot the American economy by raising the cost of goods from other
countries. It did not work.
6.
Analyze Interactions Explain how the depression in the United States affected
the economy of Europe.
The other countries retaliated by passing their own tariffs deepening
the economic crisis.
Matrix Formulaic Expression Instructions
• Read pages 316-321 with shoulder partner in
read and respond
Partner B will read first
Partner A will choose from the following
1 thing I heard you say was…,
1 thing I was confused about here was…,
1 thing I would like to know more was….
Continue this process 2 paragraph at a time
until finished reading.
• When finished raise your hands!
Reminders:
•
Vocabulary Quiz
Friday.
•
Spiral Check 1/13
Get your work from
yesterday, completed! 
If you are finished you
need to complete
• your vocabulary OR
• your 5 causes
illustrations
Two Presidents Respond
1. He felt the government should stay out of it, and
that it was a natural occurrence of the market.
He believed localism was the solution to the
problem.
2. Hoover stopped taking a hands off approach and
asked Congress to pass the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation that would supply the
railroad and big businesses money as well as
bankers. The hope was that the money would
trickle down.
Two Presidents Respond
3. He believed that the railroads, banks & large
businesses would hire people boosting
employment, or increase loaning and reinfuse the
economy, which individuals could not do on their
own.
4. No the Bonus Army was not handled well
because General MacArthur removed the veterans
with force rather than having Hoover handle the
political problem himself.
Two Presidents Respond
• Hoover’s Actions
– Supported relief from state &
local governments
– Tried voluntary cooperation &
urged owners of banks to loan
money to failing banks
– Supported the creation of the
Reconstruction Finance
Corporation. The RFC issued
loans to banks, railroads and
other big businesses hoping
prosperity would seep to the
economy
– Supported a bill that gave RFC
power to loan money to states
that needed to provide relief
to the needy.
• Roosevelt’s Actions
– Believed in a New Deal
– Created a Brain Trust to help
work on the problems
Two presidents respond
5. Eleanor Roosevelt was deeply involved in
FDR’s presidency. She traveled and met with
American people and made them feel heard
and was FDR’s eyes and ears.
6. Shows that FDR was capable of getting us
safely out of the Great Depression
Exit Ticket
• Write one question about the Great
Depression you had while reading today
• OR Write one thing you would like to know
more about over the Great Depression
• Place in class tray
Bell Ringer:
Vocab Quiz / Spiral Check 1/13
Agenda: Great Depression
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Happy
Monday!!
Bell Ringer:
Get to work on your next station or complete the one
you left on Friday with your group!
We will grade today
Spiral Check Wednesday
Great Depression TEST ON THURSDAY!!!
Instructions for Human Impact
• There will be 4 readings
• You will visit each station
– At the station you will read the
letter AND: Write a quotation
from it that describes 1 way
people endured hardship in the
depression
– Then read what piece of the
book it wants you to read
– After you have read the book
you should write 3 facts per
the instructions on your paper
– Finally you will need to write a
thought bubble for how your
person felt.
Human Impact Answer
• Illinois
•
– 1933 unemployment rate was
25%
– African Americans were 1st to
lose their jobs. Their
unemployment was 50% in some
cities
– Women often lost their jobs to
•
give to men.
• New Jersey
– As many as 1/5 New York kids
suffered from malnutrition
– Illness among unemployed was
66% higher than families with
full-time wage earner.
– Soup kitchens & breadlines
started to feed the hungry.
Texas
– The dust bowl was so bad they called
them black blizzards
– The long drought affected 100 million
acres of farmland in TX, OK, NM, Co
& KA. Region known as Dust Bowl
– Grapes of Wrath told story of Dust
Bowl migrants who went to CA.
Pennsylvania
– Northeast struck by series of record
breaking storms in March 1936 causing
massive flooding.
– PA hit hardest by the Great flood. 82,00
buildings destroyed and 84 died.
– After floods President Roosevelt signed
national flood program into law.
Happy Tuesday
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Thursday!
Spiral Check
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Wednesday
Agenda: Great Depression Review
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Human Impact Answer
•
•
•
Texas
– The ________________was so bad
they called them _______________
– The long ____________affected 100
million acres of farmland in TX, OK,
NM, Co & KA. Region known as Dust
Bowl
– ____________________told story of
Dust Bowl migrants who went to CA. •
Pennsylvania
– _____________________ struck by
series of record breaking storms in
March 1936 causing massive flooding.
– PA hit hardest by the
_____________________. 82,00
buildings destroyed and 84 died.
– After floods President Roosevelt signed
____________________________into
law.
Oregon
– People had land often grew food to eat
or trade
– People sold apples on the street home to
make __________________________.
– During 32-33 school year about
___________________college students
dropped out
Georgia
– Hard for people to admit they needed
help. One man said he and family lived
on ______________ and _________for
3 weeks before he asked for relief.
– In New York ________________
increased from 4.5 million in 1930 to 21
million in 1932
– ________________________________
tried to help people who were out of work,
but ran out of money because of the
amount who needed help.
Human Impact Answer
•
•
Illinois
•
– 1933 _____________________ rate
was _____________________
– _____________________were 1st to
lose their jobs. Their unemployment
was _____________ in some cities
– ___________________ often lost
their jobs to give to men.
North Dakota
•
– ______________ who couldn’t pay
their bills or sell their farms due to
low property values lost their homes.
– Families often had to live with
relatives or ___________ because
they couldn’t afford ________, and
teenagers left home when cost got to
high.
– ____________________rates
dropped because people didn’t have
money.
Ohio
– When people couldn’t ____________
their ____________ they were evicted
– Seattle’s _____________________
consisted of more than
______________ shacks.
– ____________________would leave
home to ride the rails in search of work.
New Jersey
– As many as
_____________________kids suffered
from __________________________
– Illness among _______________ was
_________ higher than families with
full-time wage earner.
– __________________& breadlines
started to feed the _________________.
3 Facts for Illinois
3 Facts for North Dakota
• Unemployment rate
• 1 on farmers
• African American
Unemployment rate
• 1 on family living
• Effects on Women
• 1 on marriage &
birth
3 Facts for Texas
3 Facts for Pennsylvania
• 1 on the Dust Bowl
• 1 storms
• 1 on the effect of the
Dust Bowl
• 2 on effects &
outcomes of floods
• 1 on Grapes of
Wrath
3 Facts for Georgia
3 Facts for Oregon
• 1 on people’s life &
choices
• 2 what people did to
survive
• 1 on New York
• 1 on college life
• 1 on local & state
government’s role
3 Facts for New Jersey
3 Facts for Ohio
• 1 on kids life
• 2 on living situations
• 1 on illness
• 1 teenage life
• 1 on programs to
help relieve hunger