APUSH Unit 12
Chapters 34 & 35
Amsco Chapter 24 & part of 35
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Causes and Effects of the Depression, 1929-1933
Wall Street Crash
- Black Thursday and Black Tuesday
Causes of the Crash
- Uneven distribution of income
- Stock market speculation
- Excessive use of credit
- Overproduction of consumer goods
- Weak farm economy
- Government policies
- Global economic problems
Effects
Hoover’s Policies
Responding to a Worldwide Depression
- Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930)
- Debt moratorium
Domestic Programs: Too Little, Too Late
- Federal FArm Board
- Reconstruction Finance (RFC)
Despair and Protest
- Unrest on the farms
- Bonus march
The Election of 1932
- Democrats
- Results
- Hoover as “lame-duck” president
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal
F.D.R The Man
- Disability
- Eleanor Roosevelt
New Deal Philosophy
- The three R’s
- Brain Trust and other advisers
The First Hundred Days
- Bank holiday
- Repeal of Prohibition
- Fireside chats
- Financial recovery programs
- Programs for relief for the unemployed
- Industrial recovery program
- Farm production control program
Other Programs of the First New Deal
The Second New Deal
Relief Programs
- Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Resettlement Administration (RA)
Reforms
- National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act (1935)
- Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
- Federal taxes
The Social Security Act
The Election of 1936
- Alf Landon
- Results
Opponents of the New Deal
Liberal Critics
Conservative Critics
Demagouges
- Father Charles E. Coughlin
- Dr. Francis E. Townsend
- Huey Long
The Supreme Court
- Court-reorganization plan
- Reaction
- Aftermath
Rise of Unions
Formation of the C.I.O.
Strikes
- Automobiles
Fair Labor Standards Act
Last Phase of the New Deal
Recession, 1937-1938
- Causes
- Keynesian economics
Weakened New Deal
Life During the Depression
Women
Dust Bowl Farmers
African Americans
- Improvements
- Fair Employment Practices Committee
Native Americans
- Indian Reorganization (Wheeler-Howard) Act (1934)
Mexican Americans
Ws the New Deal Revolutionary or Conservative? (Summarize this passage)