Wednesday, March 19, 2014

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Test Review

Herbert Hoover
Stock Market
Buying on Margin
Speculation
Installment
Hawley-Smot Tarriff
Hooverville
Hobos
Dust Bowl
Movies to escape
Soap Operas
Authors
Public Works
RFC
Relief
Bonus Army
New Deal
Bank Holiday
Hundred Day
Fireside Chats
Pick 4: SEC, AAA, FDIC, HOLC, NRA, CCC, FERA,CWA
American Liberty League
Huey Long
Father Coughlin
Townshend
Social Security

What were Causes of Depression?

What were Effects?

How was life for Farmers in 20's?

What was lasting legacy of Depression?

How has the government become a Safety net.

Monday, March 17, 2014

Study Review, open book test. Put on Blog.

Write down and fill in this outline. Then, go back and create an introduction and conclusion. You will get 5 points (max) for each roman numeral. You will receive a max of 35 for the outline. We will have class time (2 days, but not the full class). Then it will be due.

Here is the question you are answering with this outline: Thoroughly Discuss the Causes and Effects of the Depression? What were the various solutions? What were criticisms leveled at the New Deal? How effective was the New Deal? What were it’s lasting effects? I have included some 'prompting' lines around the way to help you understand the process.


I Intro (Leave Blank for now)




II Causes (The causes of the great depression were ________, _______, ________)
A overspeculation (Define, how important)

B Govt Policy

C Unstable Econ

1 uneven prosperity

2 overproduction

3 worker issues / farm issues

III Effects

A Poverty

B Society

C World

IV Solutions

A Hoover

1 Volunteerism

2 Public Works

3 Hawley Smoot

4 RFC

B Roosevelt

1 new deal

a alphabet soup
            example

            example

            example

            example

b Criticsim?


2 2nd new deal
a

b

c

V Criticicism

B Political Criticism (ex. Came from both the ____________ and ______________)

A Conservatives


B Liberals (ex: criticised the new deal also. They....)

Ex

ex

VI Effectiveness

A Changes in US

B Unions

C Culture

VII Conclusion



Chapter 10-3

Court Packing Plan
-Courts declare FDR's acts unconstitutional
-Furious at 9 old men

Roosevelt Recession
-cut spending
-Keynes-ianism - Gov should spend heavily in recession

Legacy of the New Deal
-Greater Control in America for Government ' ' Broker state'
-Safety net

Thursday, March 13, 2014

10-2

1. Page 509 Questions one and 2
2. Harry Hopkins
3. What criticisms were leveled at the new deal from the right and left?
4. Deficit spending
5. American Liberty Leauge
6. Huey Long
7. Father Coughlin
8. Townsend Plan
9. WPA
10. 2nd 100 days
11. NLRB
12. CIO
13. Strikes

14. Social Security

Friday, March 7, 2014

Make sure you have all this.

10-1

1 What was FDR willing to try?

2 New Deal?

3 Election of 1932

4 9 facts about FDR

5 Hundred days

6 Bank Holiday

7 Emergency Banking Relief Act

8 Fireside Chats

9 SEC

10 FDIC

11 AAA

12 NRA

13 HOLC

14 FCA

15CCC

16 FERA

17 PWA

18 CWA

Seabiscuit:From the movie -- What is evidence the Seabiscuit was NATIONALLY well known and popular?

How is Seabiscuit a symbol of America in the Depression.

Describe the tragedies that Red Pollard Went through?

Describe the tragedies Seabiscuit Went through?


What were some of the steps taken to help calm Seabiscuit down?

Monday, March 3, 2014

US HISTORY IS AWESOME!!!! (Tuesday Assignment)

Things to be finishing up:  No lab, you'll have to type on your iPad.

RADIO HOUR -- finish your script, and record it with garage band (full script on each blog, one person with recorded garage band on iPad).  If nothing else, notes will take up most of the time.

PRIMARY SOURCE CHECK --  Have you finished all three of these?

Have you finished your 1920's timeline Piece?  I will be grading these this week.  Make sure yours is good.  Here is the assignment link.

Reading CHAPTER 9, section 3.  Finish for Wednesday.

I"ll be in before lunch if you need me.