Unit: The Great Depression and New Deal (1929-1941)



Unit: The Great Depression and New Deal (1929-1941)The Big Picture: The roaring twenties came to a screeching halt on October 29, 1929 when the stock market crashed. Such factors as overproduction, underconsumption, unequal distribution of wealth, depressed farms, and stock market speculation plunged the United States into the Great Depression. Widespread unemployment followed and had a variety of social and political impacts on our nation. When Franklin Roosevelt became President in 1932, he began initiating a series of reforms known as the New Deal. These reforms attempted to resolve issues that had led to the Depression, as well as provide new jobs for unemployed Americans. Many of the institutions established by the New Deal still exist today.Last Unit:The Twenties(1920-1929)Current Unit:The Great Depression and New Deal(1929-1941)Next Unit: World War II(1941-1945)Activities, Skills and Assessments:Key Terms and Phrases:Vocabulary Sequence and ChronologyPolitical Cartoon AnalysisPrimary SourcesGraphs/Charts AnalysisMaps/Photos AnalysisCER WritingUnit Summative AssessmentsHERBERT HOOVER CREDIT DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGESPECULATION BUYING ON MARGIN NYSE GREAT DEPRESSION BLACK TUESDAY HAWLEY-SMOOT TARIFF ACTSHANTYTOWNS SOUP KITCHENS/BREAD LINES OKIES DUST BOWL HOBOES/WILD BOYS/HOOVER TOURISTS RUGGED INDIVIDUALISM DIRECT RELIEF BOULDER (HOOVER) DAMHOOVERVILLES/HOOVER BLANKETS/HOOVER FLAGS TRICKLEDOWN ECONOMICS RFC BONUS ARMY FEDERAL HOME LOAN ACTFRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT BRAIN TRUST JOHN M. KEYNES DEFICIT SPENDING NEW DEAL HUNDRED DAYS FIRESIDE CHATSBANK HOLIDAY FDIC FEDERAL SECURITIES ACT/SEC FERA/CCC/TVA/AAA/WPA 21ST AMENDMENT FATHER COUGHLIN DR. FRANCIS TOWNSEND HUEY LONG ELEANOR ROOSEVELT SECOND NEW DEAL JOHN STEINBECK/THE GRAPES OF WRATH WAGNER ACT SOCIAL SECURITY ACT FRANCES PERKINS MARY McLEOD BETHUNE BLACK CABINET INDIAN REORGANIZATION NEW DEAL COALITION CIO SIT DOWN STRIKES ORSON WELLES WOODY GUTHRIE AMERICAN GOTHIC GONE WITH THE WIND FEDERAL ART PROJECT FEDERAL WRITERS PROJECT NLRB Essential Questions:What were the causes of the Great Depression?What was the effect of the Great Depression on the American people?What hardships did farmers face during the depression?How did President Roosevelt use the New Deal to help America?Why did some people criticize the New Deal?How did the New Deal change the role of government?Text Pages:410-461USHG ERA 7 – THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND WORLD WAR II (1920-1945)7.1 Growing Crisis of Industrial Capitalism and ResponsesI can evaluate the key events and decisions surrounding the causes and consequences of the global depression of the 1930s and World War II. 7.1.2 Causes and Consequences of the Great Depression – I can explain and evaluate the multiple causes and consequences of the Great Depression by analyzing:? the political, economic, environmental, and social causes of the Great Depression including fiscal policy, overproduction, under consumption, and speculation, the 1929 crash, and the Dust Bowl? the economic and social toll of the Great Depression, including unemployment and environmental conditions that affected farmers, industrial workers and families? Hoover’s policies and their impact (e.g., Reconstruction Finance Corporation)7.1.3 The New Deal – I can explain and evaluate Roosevelt’s New Deal Policies including:? expanding federal government’s responsibilities to protect the environment (e.g., Dust Bowl and the Tennessee Valley), meet challenges of unemployment, address the needs of workers, farmers, poor, and elderly? opposition to the New Deal and the impact of the Supreme Court in striking down and then accepting New Deal laws? consequences of New Deal policies (e.g., promoting workers’ rights, development of Social Security program, and banking and financial regulation conservation practices, crop subsidies) Guided Questions:1. Explain the different economic problems that caused the Great Depression.2. What was Black Tuesday and why was it important economically?3. How did the Great Depression affect the daily lives of people?4. Explain President Hoover’s response to the Great Depression.5. How did FDR and the New Deal address the problems and causes of the Great Depression?6. What impact did the Great Depression have on American culture?7. What is the legacy left by the New Deal?Unit Reading Guide The Great Depression and New DealChapter 14, Section 1 During the 1920s, the net income of the wealthiest one percent of Americans rose by what percentage?During the 1920s, what was the minimum annual income required for a family in the United States to maintain a decent standard of living?Term – defined as “paying a small percentage of a stock’s price as a down payment and borrowing the rest:” Why was October 29, 1929 known as BLACK TUESDAY?What event signaled the beginning of the Great Depression?By 1933, how many American banks had failed?What was the unemployment rate in 1933?What act of Congress established the highest tariff in U. S. history?Chapter 14, Section 2Why did shantytowns often spring up in urban areas in the 1930s?Life in rural areas during the Great Depression was hard, but rural people had one major advantage over urban people – what?The region of the USA hit hardest by the drought of the 1930s was called the:How many American schools had been closed by 1933? Chapter 14, Section 3Who was President when the stock market crashed in October 1929?Which President authorized the construction of Boulder Dam? What was a “Hooverville?” What was President Hoover’s “most ambitious economic reform?”What was the goal of the “Bonus Army” in 1932?Chapter 15, Section 1Who was elected President in the election of 1932?What were the three main goals of FDR’s “New Deal?”How long after becoming President did Roosevelt wait before beginning to implement his “New Deal?”What New Deal agency was created by the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933?What New Deal agency was created in 1934 to regulate the stock markets?How did the AAA “encourage” farmers to not plant so many crops?What New Deal agency was created to provide work for young men 18 – 25?What New Deal agency built 40,000 schools and paid the salaries of 50,000 teachers?What New Deal agency’s aim was to promote recovery by interrupting the trend of wage cuts, falling prices, and layoffs?What New Deal agency granted home loans to homeowners to prevent foreclosure?Define DEFICIT SPENDING:What two New Deal programs were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1935 and 1936?Louisiana governor Huey Long, a critic of FDR and possible opponent for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1936, didn’t run for president in 1936 – why not?Chapter 15, Section 2What was the focus of John Steinbeck’s novel, The Grapes of Wrath?What New Deal agency employed professionals, artists, playwrights, actors, built airports, schools, roads, etc.?What New Deal agency was created to provide jobs for high school and college students?What New Deal law passed in 1935 to guarantee collective bargaining rights to workers?What 1938 New Deal law established a minimum wage, a minimum age for work and a maximum work week?What New Deal agency created old – age insurance for retirees, unemployment insurance and aid to families with dependent children?Chapter 15, Section 3Who was the first woman cabinet member in American history?Who resigned her membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution when Marian Anderson was denied the use of Constitution Hall for a concert because she was an African- American?FDR was reluctant to commit himself to full civil rights for African Americans – why?How was the sit down strike different from other types of workers strikes?Chapter 15, Section 4By the end of the 1930s, what percentage of Americans went to a movie once a week?Why were some radio programs called “soap operas?”In his famous work American Gothic, who did artist Grant Wood use as his models?What was the subject of James Agee’s book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men?Chapter 15, Section 5What was the federal deficit in the fiscal year 1934?The FDIC, a New Deal agency, originally guaranteed bank deposits up to $ 5,000 – what’s the current limit?The TVA was a New Deal agency created to help with the economic development of what part of the United States? ................
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