Materials Needed Ready to Turn In

• Binder
• Writing utensil

MONDAY, APRIL 15TH

Review from last chapter: what were Harding

and Coolidge’s economic policies?
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TUESDAY, APRIL 16TH

Imagine that your parents lost their job and

all their savings. What would life be like? How
would you get by?
 Great Depression Introduction
•While watching the slide show of photos from
the Great Depression time period, write down 5
adjectives that describe what you see
•Get together with a partner and compare lists
•Choose one word from your group to write on
the paper in the front of the room. Your word
cannot be the same as one already written!
 Tuesday Agenda
•Read through 25.1 as a class
•Take 2 column notes on the
section
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook
• Writing utensil

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17TH

What were two things President Hoover did to

try to improve the economy following the
stock market crash?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFu7us6bNSQ
 The Myth of Prosperity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1GNyPc_DuU

• When Hoover was elected people thought the economy was good
• Problems- industries like railroads, textiles and mining made more
goods than people could buy, so businesses lost money
• Farmers produced more than they could sell, so they lost money
• Majority of Americans had small income and little savings, couldn’t
find work
• People had to buy goods on credit, putting them in debt
• People bought on speculations, risky Wall Street bets
KQ: Prosperity made goods to available and encouraged people
to make risky choices with their money
 The Crash and the Great Depression
• Stock market crashed in 1929- investors lost everything
• Worst day- Black Tuesday- stocks lost 75%
• Millions of Americans lost life savings
• Thousands of banks closed down after running out of money
• People had no money to buy with, businesses fired
employees
• Great Depression- worst economic crisis in US history
• Millions experienced starvation, homelessness and suffering
KQ: Stock market crashing and banks running out of money
caused GD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-kdxn134gY
 Hoover Loses the Nation’s Trust https://www.youtube.com/w
atch?v=gl678len3aY
• Americans blamed Hoover for the Great Depression
• First Hoover told churches and charities to help poor people
• Next he created Reconstruction Finance Corp to give loans to
businesses
• Finally approved public works projs. Gov funded construction
(like Hoover Dam) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i91huA98Q8s

Bonus Army: 15,000 Congress said no Soldiers attacked

WWI veterans who money so veterans veterans, angering
had been promised protested, camped Americans so
bonuses out in DC FDR next prez
KQ: Ineffective solutions and bad handling of Bonus Army
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 10TH

What impact did Hoover’s handling of the

Bonus Army have on his chances for
reelection?
Thursday Agenda
•Read and take notes on 25.2
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook
• Writing utensil

TUESDAY, APRIL 23RD

Compare and contrast buying on credit and

speculation
 TUESDAY Agenda
1. IF YOU NEVER TOOK ROARING 20s
TEST DO SO NOW! 0 OTHERWISE
2. FINISH SUB WORK FROM THURSDAY
AND MONDAY
3. WORK ON ANY MISSING WORK
 Advisory
•Turn in Crash Movie and Reflection
Questions from Thursday and
yesterday
•Read over “Supersize Me” movie
questions
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• Binder
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24TH

What happened on October

29 , and what was its other
th

name?
 Wednesday Agenda
•Read through 25.2 as a class
•Take 2 column notes on the
section
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook
• Writing utensil

THURSDAY, APRIL 25TH

What were “fireside chats” and which

president was famous for them? (25.2)
http://www.american-historama.org/1929-1945-depression-
ww2-era/agricultural-adjustment-act.htm
 Roosevelt Takes Charge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6KSOaaWqb4
• First New Deal (1933 – 1935) focus on relief, recovery, reform
• Roosevelt elected after Hoover, got right to work
1. Declared bank holiday, shutting down all banks
2. Promised only good banks will reopen
3. Communicated directly w/ Americans through fireside chats (radio)
• FDR’s 100 Days focus: help poor, help agriculture and industry,
help economy
• Some saw New Deal as socialism, others didn’t think it was enough

KQ: Goals of New Deal: focus on relief, recovery, reform of economy

Roosevelt’s Second New Deal
•Second New Deal (1935 – 1937) focus on social
reform
• Social Security Act: helped with unemployment and
retirement
• FDR nominated for reelection
• Business people didn’t support: thought him too powerful
• Working class people and African Americans did

KQ: Helped social groups in need like elderly, poor,

and sick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdE_EV3wnXM
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQazijqXsCE

The New Deal Slows Down

• Supreme Court didn’t support New Deal programs, thought it gave
fed. Gov. too much power controlling US econ.  they struck
down laws
• FDR’s solution  add more justices to overrule those that
opposed (both parties opposed this)
• FDR didn’t end up needing to b/c of retirements and deaths, got his
court
• FDR believed country was doing better so stopped New Deal
policies  economy went back down until WWII
KQ: FDR stopped using deficit spending, stopped New Deal
policies so economy went back down
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvcWeNf9g6A
 New Deal Project
1. Read about your assigned New Deal
Program
2. Create an advertisement to make people
aware of your program
•Criteria: name of program, abbreviation,
slogan, picture, summary  due tomorrow
3. Take your time, due tomorrow at end of
the hour
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FRIDAY, APRIL 26TH

Advisory: Study Hall

Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
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FRIDAY, APRIL 26TH

What were FDR’s first three

steps to help the country?
1.
New Deal Project
Read about your assigned New Deal Program
2. Create an advertisement to make people
aware of your program
•Criteria: name of program, abbreviation, slogan,
picture, summary  due today
3. Take your time, due today at end of the hour if
you finish early work on 25.2 RQ (due
Monday)
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MONDAY, APRIL 29TH

Do Now:
Summarize your assigned New Deal program into a
sentence. In the space remaining, draw a visual
representation of it in doodle form (emoji)
New Deal Program Gallery Walk
1. Circulate around the room taking note of each
of the New Deal Programs
2. Write down a summary of what that particular
New Deal Program did in the organizer
3. After summarizing the program draw a quick
doodle of what that program did
4. Move on to the next New Deal program and
repeat steps 1 – 3
King Kong’s Depiction of 1930s’ Life
•While watching the first part of King
Kong, take note of how life is depicted
•Look for different topics we discussed
thus far in thee chapter
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook • 25.1 + 25.2 Reading Questions
• Writing utensil

TUESDAY, APRIL 30TH

Bellwork:
What did the Social Security Act
do/help?
 Tuesday Agenda
Take 2 column notes on the
section
•Bullet points of key information
in the right hand column
•Answer the main idea question
in the left hand column
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook
• Writing utensil

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1ST

Bellwork
What was the Dust Bowl and what
was its impact?
Living Through Hard Times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-rBhbkvtm0

• Drought hit the Great Plains (Midwest) causing dust storms

and crop failure  Dust Bowl
• Farmers aka Okies took everything they owned and
headed west to California (by 1940, 2.5 mil people moved)
• Unemployment high throughout country, people go to
breadlines just to get food, lost homes and lived in boxes
• Children had to get jobs and drop out just to feed families
• Women lost jobs to men and families suffered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MS4gFPr2Hk

KQ: Losing jobs and homes, starvation hit Americans during GD

Culture in the 1930s
• Literature, photograph, and art all expressed hardships of GD

• WPA helped writers find work, produced great literature

like Grapes of Wrath
• Seeing movies one of few luxuries people could afford,
considered “golden age of cinema”
• EX) “Gone With the Wind” and “Wizard of Oz”

• People also able to listen to radio (comedy and fireside

chats)
KQ: Media showed the hardships of the time but also a break from difficult
times https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAtmoBu-jfA
Changes in American Society https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74bbewMWikQ
• Eleanor Roosevelt was FDR’s “eyes and ears” helping him make
important decisions, helped push women's rights
• FDR gave more opportunities to African Americans (i.e. “Black
Cabinet”) but also failed to give more civil rights (AA still
supported him) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMBRgDErlVw&disable_polymer=true

• Angry Americans blamed Mexican immigrants for economy/ no

job so government deported them but ended up deporting legal
U.S. citizens instead! (illegal!!!!!!!)
• Labor unions gained strength using techniques like the sit-down
strike, Wagner Act gave unions more power
KQ: New Deal policies gave some new opportunities for AA but limited
others, hurt Mex-Ams and helped unions get more power
Legacies of the New Deal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCW_lZ7hd84
• FDR’s impact on government:
1. Greatly increased the power of the presidency
2. Expanded the federal government
• Questions about gov. power that exist today
• Liberals say government should bring about social and econ.
Reform
• Conservatives- fewer government controls and more individual
freedom in economic matters
• Social Security still helping people, FDIC and SEC still around
KQ: Presidency still considered most powerful, New Deal programs like
Social Security still working
Advisory
1. News Notes on Brexit
2. CMU Higher Ed. Notes due today
3. Week 4 weekly goal due today
 Ready to Turn In
Materials Needed
• 25.3 RQ
• Notebook
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THURSDAY, MAY 2ND

Do Now:
What was FDR’s legacy for the government?
-Have out your study guide-
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FRIDAY, MAY 3RD

Do Now:
Explain the impact of three New Deal
programs
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook • Study guide before
• Writing utensil the test

THURSDAY, JANUARY 24TH

Do Now:
No bellwork
Take ten minutes to review for todays test
 Testing Expectations
• Talking or cell phone use of any kind while tests are out
will be an automatic zero on your test
• Put A and B version of the test in the correct pile by pencil
sharpener
• Turn in scantron in correct A or B pile on my desk
• When finished, grab the WWII KWL sheet by my desk and
complete first two columns , due tomorrow
• If you need extra credit, grab a critics attack FDR Policies
reading and complete for tomorrow
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook • KWL Chart
• Writing utensil

FRIDAY, JANUARY 25TH

Do Now:
In Friday box: How was Germany
punished after losing WWI
Materials Needed Ready to Turn In
• Notebook • KWL Chart
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MONDAY, JANUARY 28TH

Do Now:
Who were the dictators in Germany and
Italy mentioned in Friday’s documentary?