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Objectives:. Pre-assess background knowledge of the Great Depression Describe how the Great Depression affected the nation. Explain what caused the stock market to crash. Warm Up Activity #1. Study the painting “Employment Agency” and explain the mood that it conveys among people.

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  1. Objectives: Pre-assess background knowledge of the Great Depression Describe how the Great Depression affected the nation. Explain what caused the stock market to crash.

  2. Warm Up Activity #1 Study the painting “Employment Agency” and explain the mood that it conveys among people.

  3. Employment AgencyExtension Activity Choose one character from the painting. Give him or her a name, and write a short biography about the person.

  4. Employment Agency Extension Activity Write a short, biographical profile of the person that answers the following: What is his family like? What did the person do before unemployment? What type of work might the person get? What happened to cause such a situation?

  5. Warm Up Activity #2 Based on any previous knowledge do your best to identify the following terms: interest rate inflation rate unemployment rate consumer price index

  6. How do you think the way that the U.S. federal government keeps track of them today differs from the 1920’s?

  7. Analyze the quote “We in America are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poorhouse is vanishing among us.” –Herbert Hoover 1928

  8. Primary Source Activity 1. Find a primary source quote in section 1 of Chapter 26. 2. Explain what it means. 3. Find Hoover’s quote in the beginning of Section 1 of the chapter and write a paragraph that contrasts it with the quote that you found.

  9. PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER

  10. HOOVER INAUGURATED

  11. PROMISES, PROMISES…. +

  12. CAUSES OF THE DEPRESSION • OVEREXTENSION OF CREDIT • OVEREXPANSION OF BUSINESS • BUYING ON MARGIN • NO CONTROLS

  13. UNEMPLOYMENT IN 1930

  14. HOME TO THE UNEMPLOYED

  15. H O O V E R V I L L E

  16. Former Millionaire

  17. BANK RUN IN CALIFORNIA

  18. BREADLINE

  19. Free Soup

  20. Frustrated Farmers

  21. Families forced to move

  22. HOOVER’S BELIEFS GOVERNMENT Trickle Down

  23. Voluntary Cooperation

  24. What Hoover Did…. • Public Works Projects

  25. HIGH TARIFFS HAWLEY-SMOOT TARIFF

  26. BONUS ARMY

  27. THE END

  28. Warm Up Activity # 3 Define, in your own words, the following term: Rugged Individualism

  29. PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER

  30. Agenda Warm Up Analyze Hoover’s 1928 Speech And Hoover’s Beliefs (Collect Organizer) Complete Answers for Hoover Interview Questions

  31. HERBERT HOOVER

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