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The Great Depression and the New Deal

The Great Depression and the New Deal. Amanda Breon And Courtney King. Thesis. Our thesis was to summarize the Great Depression and the New Deal. The Stock Market Crash. October 24 th 1929 “Black Tuesday” Business Cycle. The Great Depression. 1929-1941

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The Great Depression and the New Deal

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  1. The Great Depression and the New Deal Amanda Breon And Courtney King

  2. Thesis Our thesis was to summarize the Great Depression and the New Deal.

  3. The Stock Market Crash • October 24th 1929 • “Black Tuesday” • Business Cycle

  4. The Great Depression • 1929-1941 • What Caused the Great Depression? • Over production in Factories • Loaning money that couldn’t be paid back • Default • Bankruptcy • Unemployment - 13 million people unemployed

  5. The Impact of families Fathers Others Married Children

  6. What did Hoover do? What he thought of government aid Soup Kitchens 1932 Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

  7. The Bonus Army 1924 1932/desperate for their money Hoover’s refusal to pay Hoover’s bad reputation

  8. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1920 Diagnosed with polio 1928 Four years later ran for president A new Deal For the American People

  9. The New Deal? Good or Bad? Good Helped problems Restored government faith Employed jobless people, ending banking crisis, and reformed stock market Bad Threaten individual freedom Lots of power to the federal government.

  10. Relief for the jobless New deal measures Relief to jobless Economic recover Preventing future depressions Helping the unemployment and financial aid

  11. Providing Jobs Civilian conservation corps (CCC) The young men Works progress administration (WPA)

  12. Promoting Economic Recovery National Recovery Administration (NRA) Goal: failure: Public works administration (PWA) Grants: Improves: Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Congress Giant dams, cheap electricity, increased jobs

  13. Women in the Depression Workplace Competition Teachers of librarians.

  14. First active lady Eleanor Roosevelt Why did she start speaking? Transformed roles

  15. African Americans South Cotton prices Employment Half the African Americans were unemployed

  16. The Indian New Deal 1924 John Collier Citizenship to Native Americans

  17. Dust Bowl Black Blizzards To the west Left home “okies”

  18. Art and Media “The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck Arts Movies and radio

  19. Social Security Old age insurance Aid to dependent children (ADC)

  20. Lasting Labor Reforms New Laws Wagner act Collective Bargaining

  21. Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig5Qg-_jvaw

  22. Work Cited • America History Of Our Nation Civil War to the Present. Boston, MA: Pearson Prentic Hall, 2007. • Youtube. 3 Apr. 2007. 18 May 2009 <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig5Qg-_jvaw>. • Modern American Poetry. 18 May 2009 <http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/about.htm>. • The Great Depression. Sept. 2002. 18 May 2009 <http://www.42explore2.com/depresn.htm>.

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