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Hoover and the Depression

SWBAT discuss FDR’s “New Deal” and how did it seek to end the Great Depression after analyzing the documents and completing the graphic organizer. Hoover and the Depression. When the Depression started in 1929, Herbert Hoover was President.

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Hoover and the Depression

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  1. SWBAT discuss FDR’s “New Deal” and how did it seek to end the GreatDepression after analyzing the documents and completing the graphic organizer.

  2. Hoover and the Depression • When the Depression started in 1929, Herbert Hoover was President. • Hoover believed in a policy of laissez-faire (“let it be”). • Many Americans felt that Hoover was not doing enough to help them. “Hooverville” in Central Park, NYC President Hoover

  3. FDR & the New Deal • FDR ran for President in 1932 against Hoover. FDR promised Americans a “New Deal”  more gov’t help. • In 1932, FDR won a huge election victory over Hoover. FDR Campaign pin, 1932

  4. The Election of 1932

  5. The New Deal: A series of government programs aimed at helping people survive the Depression. Social Problem New Deal Solution Work relief (create jobs) Direct relief (provide food and money) Build housing, provide loans/mortgages Protections for banking; bank regulation Irrigation projects

  6. Image 1 President Franklin D. Roosevelt Broadcasting his First Fireside Chat Regarding the Banking Crisis, from the White House, Washington, D.C. Source: National Archives and Records Administration

  7. Image 2 Men in the Civilian Conservation Corps work in the Saint Joe National Forest in Idaho. (Source: https://kids.britannica.com/kids/assembly/view/88080)

  8. Image 3 Agricultural Adjustment Administration poster Source: excerpted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Adjustment_Act#/media/File:Taos_County,_New_Mexico._Mr._Tenoriom,_AAA_representative_in_office._-_NARA_-_521975.jpg

  9. Image 4 1933 Drawing by Clifford Berryman: "The Spirit of the New Deal."

  10. Image 5 Public Works Administration construction of Lock and Dam on the Upper Mississippi River in Missouri, 1934. Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

  11. Image 6 Seal of the Securities and Exchange Commission

  12. Image 7 Works Progress Administration Composers' Forum-Laboratory, Poster announcing concert series at the WPA Federal Music Theatre Source: Work Projects Administration Poster Collection - Library of Congress Catalog:http://lccn.loc.gov/98513497

  13. Image 8 Map of Tennessee Valley Authority dams and electrification Source: Foner, Give me Liberty! (5th Edition, volume 2, p. 827)

  14. Image 9 CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) Picketers Jeering at Workers Entering a Mill Source: Foner, Give Me Liberty! (online resources) Date and location information missing.

  15. Image 10 A 1935 poster promoting the new Social Security system. Source: Library of Congress

  16. Image 11 A worker fights for the 40-hour workweek circa 1938. (Image courtesy of AFSCME)

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