The Great
Depression
Unit Essential Question:
How did the political, economic, and social
changes in the 1920s and 1930s affect the
daily life of Americans?
Lesson EQ: What
were the causes and
effects of the Great
Depression?
Stock
Exchange
A special market where
shares of stocks are bought
and sold.
BLACK TUESDAY
October
29, 1929
Stock
market
crashes
Causes of the stock
exchange crashing
Prices of stocks
began to drop
Investors
began selling
stocks
Sudden sales
caused prices
to drop more
Investors panicked.
Everyone sold stocks.
Stocks became worthless.
Great Depression
A period of failed
businesses and
massive
unemployment that
lasted throughout the
1930s.
Other events that led to the
Great Depression
Low prices were paid for
farm products. Farmers
were no longer able to
pay mortgages. Banks
stopped getting their
money back, so many
banks failed.
Other events that led to the
Great Depression
People with poor
incomes relied on credit
to buy goods. This
meant less money in
circulation. Many
manufactures went out
of business.
Other events that led to the
Great Depression
The stock market crash
accelerated the process
of depression by ruining
bankers and business
people who had
speculated on it.
Great
Depression
Effect 1
Effect 2
Effect 3
Effect 4
Effects of the
Great Depression
1. More than 5,000 banks
failed.
2. 32,000 companies and
stores closed.
3. 12 million + lost their
jobs.
Effects of the
Great Depression
4. People lost their
homes.
5. People unable to pay
taxes- schools closed.
Summarize
- Name 3 things that caused
the Great Depression
- Name 2 other causes of the
Great Depression.
- Name 1 major effect of the
Great Depression.
What was the
Dust Bowl?
The Dust Bowl
Years of drought during
the 1930s that turned
more than 150,000
square miles of the Great
Plains into dust.
Black Blizzards
Giant dust storms
that blew across
the entire region.
Dust Storms
EFFECTS
Farmers went
Blotted out
the sun
broke
Buried farms
in dust
+ population
left the region
Franklin
Roosevelt
Becomes
President
Lesson EQ: What role did FDR
play in the US recovering from
the Great Depression?
Herbert Hoover
1874-1964
st
31
President
1929-1933
Hoovervilles
Franklin Delano
Roosevelt (FDR)
People felt more
confident with FDR
because he
realized there was
suffering going on.
Hoover ignored
what was going on.
FDR believed the
government
needed to
change the way
the economy
worked.
The
New
Deal
All banks were closed
and then opened
under the
government.
FDIC
(Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation)
The government would pay
back a specified amount of
the investors money.
Loans were
given to farmers
and businesses.
The
government
took control of
the sale of
stocks.
Social Security Act
of 1935
Gave financial help to
retired Americans
and the disabled.
In 1940 it
gave $16
billion to
the jobless.
CCC
Civilian
Conservation Corps
People were hired to work on
government lands.
CCC Requirements
Single
Unemployed
Men between the ages of 1723
Had to promise to send $22 or
more of his $30 back home
WPA Works Progress
Administration
Men and Women
Built more than 650,000 miles of
land
Repaired bridges, parks, landing
strips, and public buildings.
Also hired artists, sculptors,
writers, and musicians to record
life during this time.
The Fair Labor
Standards Act
Children under the
age of 16 could not
work
Set a minimum
wage for all
Americans and
made the
standard work
week 40 hours.
NIRA
National Industrial
Recovery Act
Worked in favor of any
industrial jobs
Congress
passed a law
that allowed
workers to form
labor unions
PWA
Public Works
Administration
Construction of public
roads and buildings.
FHA
Federal Housing
Act 1937
Helped American
workers find safe and
affordable housing.
TVA
(Tennessee Valley
Authority)
Cleared out sandbars in
rivers
Built dams
The dams were hydroelectric
AAA
Agricultural
Adjustment Act
Helped farmers get higher prices
for their products.
Government offered farmers
money not to grow certain items.
If less farmers grew that item
more money would be given to the
ones that did
Eleanor Roosevelt
What was not an effect
from the Great Depression?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Unemployment
Banks closed
More business prospered
The stock market crashed
Which of the following was
not part of the New Deal?
A.
B.
C.
D.
FDIC
CCC
Social Security Act
NATO
