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7.3: The 1930s & the Great Depression

7.3: The 1930s & the Great Depression. Follow along in the student packet: “Content students MUST KNOW to be successful on the GHSGT” (p. 135-136). Click Here. 3.3 Content. Unemployment, 1929-1942. Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal . Wagner Act, 1938. Unemployment, 1929-1942. 5. 0.

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7.3: The 1930s & the Great Depression

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  1. 7.3: The 1930s & the Great Depression • Follow along in the student packet: “Content students MUST KNOW to be successfulontheGHSGT”(p.135-136) Click Here

  2. 3.3 Content

  3. Unemployment, 1929-1942

  4. Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal Wagner Act, 1938

  5. Unemployment, 1929-1942

  6. 5 0 “Hoovervilles” during the Great Depression consisted of • pockets of the country that supported President Hoover. • deserted towns filled with foreclosed businesses. • groups of makeshift homes in shantytowns. • poor urban immigrant communities. 10

  7. SPEED 5 0 This new law guaranteed workers the right to unionize and to bargain collectively. • Social Securities Act  • Wagner Act  • Civilian Conservation Corps • Tennessee Valley Authority 10

  8. SPEED 5 0 Which program insures bank deposits? • FDIC  • CCC  • TVA  • Social Security Act  10

  9. SPEED 5 0 This program was designed to provide electrical power and economic recovery to impoverished farmers. • CCC • WPA • SEC • TVA 10

  10. SPEED 5 0 What act of Congress launched the American welfare system? • Social Security Act of 1935 • Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 • Federal Emergency Relief Act of 1933 • National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 10

  11. SPEED 5 0 Franklin Roosevelt's plan to heal the country’s “sick” economy was called • Square Deal. • New Deal. • New Frontier. • Great Society. 10

  12. 5 0 The philosophy behind the New Deal was primarily to   • restore the laissez-faire capitalism which had worked so well in the early 1920's. • eliminate the massive federal deficit which had led to the Great Depression by mandating a balanced federal budget. • cut down the size of government, which had become a massive drain on the nation's economy. • expand the role of federal government in providing jobs, relief for the unemployed, and better wages. 10

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