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Study Guide – The Great Depression and the New Deal
Life During the Great Depression
- Dust Pneumonia: what caused it, how did the Red Cross respond to this crisis, and what were some home remedies?
- What percentage of mortgages were in default at the beginning of the Great Depression?
- What was the “old faith” of self-reliance?
- To which country did 100,000 Americans emigrate (leave the U.S.)?
- How were men, women, and children affected differently by the Great Depression?
- By 1933, how many schools across the country closed down?
- Bonus Army March
- Having children and divorce rates during the Great Depression
- By 1933, how many Americans were unemployed?
- “Migrant Mother”: Oakies / Dust Bowl refugees from? - Tenant farmers
- Sharecroppers
- California migration
- “Lunch atop a Skyscraper”: Why was there a skyscraper construction boom in the 1930’s?
- How did “conventional economic though” affect President Hoover’s response to the Great Depression?
- Hoovervilles, Hoover blankets, Hoover beds, and Hoover flags
Great Depression in Europe
- What four larger developments supported the rise of Adolf Hitler to power in Germany?
- Hyperinflation
- Dawes Plan (1924)
- How did the Stock Market Crash of 1929 affect Germany?
- How did the burning of the Reichstag (Feb., 1933) and the Enabling Act (March, 1933) support Hitler’s rise to power?
- How did the countries of France, Great Britain, and Germany respond to the Great Depression?
Solving the Great Depression
- What was the unemployment level at its highest during the Great Depression, as well as African American unemployment?
- What perfectly rational individual decisions led to our nation’s worst depression?
- Deflationary spiral
And
- The problem of aggregate demand
- Keynesian economics
Versus
- Supply-side economics
- C + I + G = GDP
- What was the impact of President Franklin Roosevelt’s “fireside chats?”
- What was President Franklin Roosevelt’s political philosophy?
- How was Eleanor Roosevelt a new kind of “First Lady?”
- Why was the 1930’s the “Heyday of American Communism?”
- More radical solutions to the Great Depression:
- Father Coughlin
- Dr. Townsend (Townsend Plan)
- Huey Long (Share Our Wealth)
New Deal
- What were the goals of the New Deal?
- Financial Reform legislation: Emergency Banking Relief Act, Securities Act of 1933, and Glass-Steagall Act
- Other Reform programs: Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act), and Social Security Act
- Relief programs: (CWA) Civil Works Administration, (CCC) Civilian Conservation Corp, (WPA) Works Progress Administration,
and (FERA) Federal Emergency Relief Administration
- Economic Recovery programs: (AAA) Agricultural Adjustment Act and (TVA) Tennessee Valley Authority
- What was the “New Deal Coalition” of voters?
- What was the legacy of the New Deal?
- What ended the high unemployment associated with the Great Depression?