BELLWORK What are stocks? What are they used for? How did the stock market crash lead to the Great...
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BELLWORK What are stocks? What are they used for? How did the stock market crash lead to the Great Depression? What effect did the Great Depression have on farmers? What is a bank run? What are “hoovervilles?” THINKER: Do you think the government should help companies/citizens out in a time of economic depression? Why or Why
BELLWORK What are stocks? What are they used for? How did the stock market crash lead to the Great Depression? What effect did the Great Depression
BELLWORK What are stocks? What are they used for? How did the
stock market crash lead to the Great Depression? What effect did
the Great Depression have on farmers? What is a bank run? What are
hoovervilles? THINKER: Do you think the government should help
companies/citizens out in a time of economic depression? Why or Why
not?
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Dust Bowl The Dust Bowl was an environmental crisis that took
place in the Great Plains region between 1931 and 1940. It was
caused by bad farming practices and severe drought. Dust blew
eastward and southward in large dark clouds. The Dust Bowl caused
farmland to be useless; so thousands of families migrated west in
search of better farming jobs.
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Dust Bowl Exodus
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We will now read a poem written by Woody Guthrie As you listen
to the poem, answer the questions on the board on a sheet of paper.
Dust Storm Disaster
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Dust Storm Disaster by: Woodie Guthrie On the fourteenth day of
April of nineteen thirty five, There struck the worst of dust
storms that ever filled the sky: You could see that dust storm
coming, the cloud looked deathlike black, And through our mighty
nation, it left a dreadful track... This storm took place at
sundown and lasted through the night, When we looked out this
morning we saw a terrible sight: We saw outside our windows where
wheat fields they had grown Was now a rippling ocean of dust the
wind had blown. It covered up our fences, it covered up our barns,
It covered up our tractors in this wild and windy storm. We loaded
our jalopies and piled our families in, We rattled down the highway
to never come back again.
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DELETE THIS SLIDE!!!! Why did this storm leave a dreadful
track? What happened to the authors wheat fields? Why did he leave
and never come back again? What picture does this poem paint of the
dust bowl? Why do you think it was such a horrific event in
American History?
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Hoover and The Great Depression
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In 1930, Republicans lost control of the House and Senate.
Hawley-Smoot Tariff: highest import tax in history. Designed to
protect U.S. products from Foreign competition Reconstruction
Finance Corporation (RFC): stabilize large banks and corporations
with government aide. Rejected direct federal relief and
funding.
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In 1932, 20,000 jobless WWI veterans protested in Washington,
D.C. Called themselves the Bonus Army Demanded immediate payment of
a pension bonus that was promised. Things got violent so General
Douglas MacArthur used guns, tanks, and tear gas to fight off the
protestors. Hoover took responsibility for MacArthurs actions
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President Herbert Hoover Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt
VS
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HERBERT HOOVERFRANKLIN ROOSEVELT Brother Can you Spare a Dime?
Once I built a railroad I made it run Made it race against time.
Once I built a railroad Now its done Brother, Can you Spare a Dime?
Happy Days are here Again! Happy days are here again, The skies
above are clear again Let us sing a song of cheer again Happy days
are here again.
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HERBERT HOOVERFRANKLIN ROOSEVELT Minimal government action The
key to recovery was confidence State and local governments should
handle relief Start with prosperity at the top => foster
economic growth Expand government roles Federal government should
handle relief Unemployment commission and relief administration
Startled by uneven prosperity => help the lower classes
first
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This Campaign is more than a contest between two men.... It is
a contest between two philosophies of government. -President
Hoover, 1932
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Electoral Votes Roosevelt: 472 Hoover: 59 Hoover won six
states, and FDR won by a huge margin of 7 million popular
votes.
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Discussion: Election of 1932 What were President Hoovers main
ideas? What were FDRs main ideas? What were the main differences
between the two candidates? What were the similarities between the
two candidates? Why do you think FDR ended up winning?
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Turn to your neighbor and explain to them: What caused the Dust
Bowl? What was the Hawley-Smoot Tariff? What was the Bonus Army?
How do the conditions of the 1932 election relate to our economic
problems today?
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Write a newspaper article describing the election of 1932. It
must be of a page and written from the perspective of a reporter in
the 1930s. Use key concepts from the election: campaigning tactics,
government intervention, Depression relief, Bonus Army, RFC,
etc.