Class Notes #8: The Great Depression
To Do: Read and watch all here and chapter 17 in H & W
The Great Depression--1929-1942
5. Causes of the Great Depression: Too Much Debt in Farming, Consumer Goods, and the Stock Market
Watch: Crash Course on the Great Depression Links to an external site.
----------------Effects: Unemployment, Homelessness, and Poverty
----------------Migrant Workers, Dads leave families, schools close
---------------Herbert Hoover's response: Laissez-Faire
Election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932---New Deal
Watch: Hip Hughes on the New Deal Links to an external site.
A famous cover of the New Yorker, Hoover and FDR riding to the Capitol on Inauguration Day, 1933.
The New Deal
- Recovery Phase 1933-1936: Trying to stop the economic decline
- SEC, FDIC, CCC, TVA, and more
Look at the map in the link below, look at all of the government paid for projects shown here:
TVA Map Links to an external site.
---------Challengers: Dr. Townsend, Hughey Long, and Father Coughlin
FDR's First 100 DaysLinks to an external site.
1936 Election
---------Reform:
--------------WPA, SSA, Wagner Act
--------------------Frances Perkins
--------Progressive Taxes
Read: Letters to the Roosevelts Links to an external site.
9. Role of Eleanor Roosevelt
````````````advocated for the poor, women, and African Americans
Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson:
Captioned version of Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian AndersonLinks to an external site.
