Ch15 and 16:  Great Depression/New Deal Power point note taking guide

Chapter 15:  Crash and Depression

Section 1:  The Stock Market Crash of 1929

Timeline

September:

October 23rd and 24th:

October 29th, 1929:

    Black Tuesday

    Great Crash

    Business Cycle:  Fill in for the test

        Investors        Businesses and Workers        Banks        World Payments

Great Depression

    Dates:  1929-1941 when U.S. entered World War II

Causes of Great Depression

    1.

    2.

    3.

Section 2:  Social Effects of the Depression

Who did it affect?

Hoovervilles-

Dust Bowl-

Poverty Strains on Society

    1.

    2.

    3.

Section 3:  Surviving the Great Depression

Penny Auctions

Everyday life

Signs of Change

    Prohibition is repealed-

    Empire State building

    End of an Era

Section 4:  The Election of 1932

Hoover

    Hawley-Smoot Tariff-

    RFC-

    Bonus Army

New Deal-FDR-

Election of 1932-Roosevelt vs. Hoover

Roosevelt                                                                                        Hoover

Chapter 16:  The New Deal

Section 1:  Forging a New Deal:  FDR knew that restoring hope and building public confidence were essential to calming panic and creating support for the President's plan.

New Deal-provided 3 things

    1.  Relief

    2.  Recovery

    3.  Reform

The First Hundred Days

    FDR's promise:

    3 purposes

    1.

    2.

    3.

Four areas of New Deal Reform

    1.

        ERA

        FDIC

    2.

        public works program

        CCC

    3.

        NIRA

        NRA

    4. 

        AAA

        TVA

Frances Perkins

The Second New Deal

    Purpose

    WPA

    FSA

    REA

    Wagner Act

    Closed shops

    Social Security System

1936 Election

    election results-

    significance

Section 2:  The New Deal's Critics:  The New Deal had critics who felt it did too much and those who said it did too little.  Comment which way you feel.

Critics Arguments

    Fair Labor Standards Act

    NRA codes

    Social Security Act flaws

    FDR not supporting a bill against lynching

    American Liberty League

    Upton Sinclair

    Father Charles Coughlin

    Huey Long

    farmer's free market

    deficit spending

Court Packing Fiasco

    FDR's actions-

    Results

Section 3:  Last Days of the New Deal  The effects of the New Deal programs are still recognizable today.  Comment.

Recession

Social Security Tax

national debt

revenue

    results

coalition

sit down strikes

scabs

New Deal effects on Culture

Literature

    John Steinback-Grapes of Wrath

Radio and Movies

    examples

WPA and the Arts

New Deal Achievements

    1.  bridges

    2.  dams

    3.  tunnels

    4.  public buildings

    5.  hospitals

    6.  TVA

    7.  FDIC

    8.  Social Security system

    9.  Hope