The Great The Great Depression Depression

and and New DealNew Deal

1928-1945

Stock Market Crash

• October 29, 1929.

• BLACK TUESDAY

Stock Market Crash

• October 29, 1929.

Stock Market Crash

• OVERPRODUCTION: Factories had manufactured too many products

Stock Market Crash

• OVERPRODUCTION: Factories had manufactured too many products

Stock Market Crash

• BUYING ON MARGIN: People had taken out loans to buy stock. When the stock went down, they could not pay the loan back.

Stock Market Crash

Consequences

Unemployment went up to 25%

Banks closed and people lost their savings

Stock Market Crash

Consequences

Stock Market Crash

Consequences

Businesses went bankrupt.

Stock Market Crash

ConsequencesFamilies

lost their homes and had to live on the street.

Stock Market Crash

ConsequencesFamilies

lost their homes and had to live on the street.

Stock Market Crash

Consequences

The "NEW DEAL"

• President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• (F.D.R.)

The "NEW DEAL"

• Fireside Chats:

• FDR used radio addresses to encourage Americans

The "NEW DEAL"

• Closed all Banks for 8 Days.

• Only let the strong banks reopen.

• Set up insurance (FDIC) for all bank accounts.

The "NEW DEAL"

• Alphabet Soup: FDR decided that the government had to fix the problems that caused the Great Depression. He created several government agencies to fix the economy.

Alphabet Soup

• 1. The PWA (Public Works Administration): Gave the states money to build roads, schools, and buildings.

• 2. The WPA (Works Progress Administration): Gave money to artists, writers, and anyone who could do any work.

• 3. The CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps): Hired men to build bridges, parks and roads.

• 4. The TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority): Built Dams in the South and helped farmers.

Alphabet Soup

The "NEW DEAL"

• Set up Social Security• Money for all Americans over 65.• Money for disabled Americans.

Minnie Stonestreet, Federal Writer’s Project, 1939

• I am so thankful that I did not go down completely; that there were kind friends who stood by me, and that I live in a land under the administration of such a great humanitarian as our noble President, who feels for those who were caught in the terrible depression and lost almost all they had,

Minnie Stonestreet, Federal Writer’s Project, 1939

• who in his wonderful kindness of heart has made it possible for us to have the high and rightful privilege of working out our financial difficulties and winning back our rightful places in the world, and still keep our self respect and our faith in God and man. And I can say with all the earnestness of my soul: Thank God for America! Thank God for Franklin D. Roosevelt, the President with a heart!