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Aim: Was the Great Depression avoidable?

Aim: Was the Great Depression avoidable? . Do Now Quiz Homework: Exam Tues and Wed . Coolidge Succeeds Presidency : 1923, 1924 . Coolidge . Worked to reduce public debt Lower cost of govt Cut taxes Restrict immigrants . “The Business of America is business” .

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Aim: Was the Great Depression avoidable?

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  1. Aim: Was the Great Depression avoidable? Do Now Quiz Homework: Exam Tues and Wed

  2. Coolidge Succeeds Presidency : 1923, 1924

  3. Coolidge • Worked to reduce public debt • Lower cost of govt • Cut taxes • Restrict immigrants • “The Business of America is business”

  4. Election of 1928 “Coolidge Prosperity”

  5. 1920s ….BOOM! • Stock prices soar • Business expands production (new factories and workers) • Federal Reserve keeps interest rates low (easy to buy on credit) • High consumer spending (cash in bonds) • Laissez Faire govt policy

  6. Causes of The Great Depression Packet Work

  7. “Black Tuesday” • The day the stock market crashed

  8. Hoover’s steps to Fight The Great Depression

  9. Life during the Depression (1930s) Search of jobs, meals, jobs, houses, Decent to poverty Price plunge Desperation causes migration Great plains becomes and Dust Bowl.

  10. Dust Bowl 1935 • Dry , dust storm in 1935 Plains • Ecological and agricultural damage to the prairies.

  11. Primary Source Analysis Image

  12. Conditions under Hoover….

  13. Waiting in line for bread

  14. Relocations

  15. “Hoovervilles”

  16. Hoover Blankets

  17. The Dust Bowl

  18. Social effects of the Great Depression on Arts • John Steinbeck About a family of ‘Okies’ escaping the Dust Bowl and how horribly they were treated

  19. Stories of the Great Depression • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpfY8kh5lUw

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