Chapter+22-+The+Great+Depression

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 * [[image:http://www.historyteacher.net/AmericanHistoryAndGovernment/Images/AmericanHistoryText-Sources.gif width="85" height="24"]] || * ** Textbook --> pp. 642 - 649. **
 * ** FILM --> clips from the series, "The American Century." **
 * ** Current Dow Jones chart. ** ||
 * [[image:http://www.historyteacher.net/AmericanHistoryAndGovernment/Images/AmericanHistoryText-Questions.gif width="104" height="26"]] || # **Give specific examples to show how the superficial prosperity of the late 1920s hid troubling weaknesses in the country.**
 * 1) **Identify reasons why agriculture suffered more throughout the 1920s than any other part of the country.**
 * 2) **How did the McNary-Haugen Bill attempt to help the farmers? Why did President Coolidge veto it twice?**
 * 3) **How was the distribution of income so unequal in the United States during the 1920s? How was this bad for the economy?**
 * 4) **Why did Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York loose the 1920 presidential election?**
 * 5) **What does it mean to "buy on margin"? How did this practice contribute to creating the Great Depression?**
 * 6) **Why did so many banks fail so quickly during the early 1930s?**
 * 7) **What happened to ordinary workers during the Great Depression?**
 * 8) **How did the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930 worsen the worldwide depression?**
 * 9) **What role did the effects of World War I play in affecting the world economy?** ||
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 * *** price supports** || ** * Great Depression ** ||
 * ** * distribution of income ** || ** * Dow Jones Industrial Average ** ||
 * *** Alfred E. Smith** || ** * GNP ** ||
 * ** * Herbert Hoover ** || ** * Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act [1930] ** ||
 * ** * buying on margin ** ||  ||
 * *** McNary-Haugen Bill** ||
 * ** * Black Tuesday [Oct. 29, 1929] ** ||  ||   ||   ||
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 * [[image:http://www.historyteacher.net/AmericanHistoryAndGovernment/Images/AmericanHistoryText-Sources.gif width="85" height="24" align="center"]] || * ** Textbook --> pp. 650 - 654. **
 * ** SONG --> "Brother Can You Spare a Dime." **
 * ** SONGS of the "rails" **
 * ** PHOTOS of the Dust Bowl. ** ||
 * [[image:http://www.historyteacher.net/AmericanHistoryAndGovernment/Images/AmericanHistoryText-Questions.gif width="104" height="26" align="center"]] || # **How did the Great Depression affect the lives of ordinary people in cities, towns, and on the farms? [create a CHART in your notebook]**
 * 1) **How were shantytowns, soup kitchens, and bread lines a response to the Depression? How successful were they?**
 * 2) **What created the "Dust Bowl" of the mid-1930s? What were its effects on the people of the Great plains and West Coast?**
 * 3) **Why did so many men leave their homes during the Depression? Where did they go?**
 * 4) **How did the Great Depression affect women and children?**
 * 5) **Why did minorities often experience an increase in discrimination during the Great Depression?** ||
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 * * **Dust Bowl**
 * Shantytowns
 * Okies || *** John Steinbeck** ||
 * * **direct relief** || *** __The Grapes of Wrath__** ||   ||

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 * [[image:http://www.historyteacher.net/AmericanHistoryAndGovernment/Images/AmericanHistoryText-Sources.gif width="85" height="24"]] || * ** Textbook --> pp. 655 - 659. **
 * ** FILM --> clips from the series, "America in the 20c." **
 * ** Excerpt from Hoover's article, "Rugged Individualism." ** ||
 * [[image:http://www.historyteacher.net/AmericanHistoryAndGovernment/Images/AmericanHistoryText-Questions.gif width="104" height="26"]] || # **Why did Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon believe that the government should do nothing about the Great Depression?**
 * 1) **What did President Hoover mean by the term "rugged individualism?" How did this reflect his views about the role of government?**
 * 2) **Why did many people blame President Hoover for the nation's increasing problems?**
 * 3) **How did President Hoover finally try to use the government to relieve the Depression?**
 * 4) **How successful were the government projects initiated by President Hoover?**
 * 5) **How did President Hoover's treatment of the Bonus Army affect his standing with the public?**
 * 6) **Why did Franklin D. Roosevelt [FDR] feel so certain that he would win the 1932 presidential election?** ||
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 * *** Boulder Dam** || *** Reconstruction Finance Corp. [1932]** ||
 * *** "Hoovervilles"** || *** Bonus Army** ||
 * *** "Hoover blanket"** || *** Douglas MacArthur** ||
 * *** Federal Farm Board** || Federal Home Loan Bank Act of 1933 ||
 * * "rugged individualism** ||  ||   ||