Great Depression to New Deal

Great Depression to New Deal

Great Depression

• The time in our history known as the Great Depression began in 1929. It began after the stock market crashed and people lost money.

• People and companies had bought a lot of stock in the 1920s. Then people panicked and began selling stock quickly. The banks did not have enough money to pay them.

Great Depression

• The stock market crashed or lost its value. Many people lost all of their money. Thousands of banks across the country closed. One of every 4 workers lost their jobs. 

• Other problems made the Depression worse. In 1930, there was a drought. No rain and strong winds ruined farms in many states. This caused a "Dust Bowl" that lasted for five years.

Multiple Select

Check off all the causes of the Great Depression

• Dust Bowl

• Stock Market crashed

• Banks did not have money to give to people who asked.

• U.S. Currency was devalued.

Poll

Would you want to live during this time period?

• YES

• NO

Franklin D Roosevelt (FDR)

• In 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt became U.S. president. Roosevelt signed laws that were known as the "New Deal."

• These were to help banks and the stock market. Some laws helped workers who lost jobs. The New Deal also helped farmers.

FDR Continued

• FDR started a new home loan program. It helped people who could not afford to pay the money they owed on their homes.

  
  

• The New Deal paid for dams to be built in the West. The dams used the flow of rivers and water to make electric power. 

Multiple Choice

What was the

"new deal"?

• A letter from FDR saying he wanted to be the president of the USA.

• A bunch of laws signed by FDR meant to help people get jobs and afford homes.

• A trade deal between china and the united states of america.

• A letter from the american colonists saying they want independence.

FDR TALKS

• First, it is important to look at Roosevelt. As a leader, he was like no one else. FDR helped people think that life in America was getting better. He gave talks on the radio that millions of people listened to. 

• He helped to build giant new programs like Social Security. This program paid people when they got too old to work or were injured and could not work.

Multiple Choice

How did FDR use the radio to communicate to the public?

• To educate them on his plan to recover the economy by giving people jobs and loans to get homes.

• To tell them how happy he was to be their president.

• To bad mouth the previous president to help himself get re-elected.

Multiple Choice

What is social security?

• This is a program that pays military personnel to go overseas.

• This is a program that helps provide security and safety for the president.

• This is a program that provides U.S. diplomats safety when they go to another country.

• This program paid people when they got too old to work or were injured and could not work.

Unions

• Workers got help, too. New laws made unions stronger. Unions are groups of workers who join together. By joining together, they could ask for things from their companies.

• Union workers could ask for more pay. They also wanted to work fewer hours. One large union used strikes when the talking did not solve the problems. A strike is when people suddenly stop working.

Multiple Select

Please check off every benefit of a union.

• They could come together to have more power over negotiating with the bosses.

• Union workers could ask for more pay.

• They also wanted to work fewer hours.

Multiple Choice

Why were unions created?

• Bosses were paying average workers so little and making them work long hours.

• Bosses were paying average workers very well and wanted their support or to unite with them?

The End is Near

• The New Deal seemed to be working. But it did not end the Depression. It was really World War II that ended the Great Depression.

• Factories started making planes and weapons for the war. New jobs were needed to make these things. More people had jobs and money. This finally ended the Depression in 1943.

Multiple Choice

How did the Great Depression end?

• Factories started making planes and weapons for the war. New jobs were needed to make these things. More people had jobs and money.

• European countries came together to give us a loan.

• The Great Depression has never truly ended.

Controversy

• Some leaders wanted the government to be smaller. There were 600,000 government workers in 1932, and Roosevelt added 400,000 more jobs.

• They complained that Roosevelt doubled the amount of money the United States owed. They felt the government wasted a lot of money. 

  
  

Poll

Do you think FDR did a good job or bad job as President?

• Yes

• NO

FDR

• Americans voted for Franklin D. Roosevelt as president. Roosevelt created a group of programs called the New Deal. When he took office in 1933, many people did not have jobs.

  
  

• The New Deal created many different programs. One was the Works Progress Administration in 1935. It gave people jobs building parks, schools and more. 

Multiple Choice

What was the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?

• It gave people jobs building military equipment.

• It gave people jobs building parks, schools and more.

• It gave people jobs transporting goods across the country.

CCC

• The Civilian Conservation Corps was created in 1933. It paid people to plant trees and fight fires. 

  The Agricultural Adjustment Administration was also started in 1933. This program was for farmers. Farmers were paid to reduce the crops they grew. Limiting the crops grown would raise the price of the crops. 

  It created many jobs and helped the economy. 

Multiple Choice

What was the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)?

• This program was for teachers. People needed to be educated so the government incentivized more people to help.

• This program is for hunters. The government paid people to hunt food so people could eat.

• This program was for farmers. Farmers were paid to reduce the crops they grew. Limiting the crops grown would raise the price of the crops.

Multiple Choice

What was the civilian conservation corps?

• It paid people to go work in another country.

• It paid people to be teachers.

• It paid people to be police officers.

• It paid people to plant trees and fight fires.

Open Ended

SUMMARIZE: WHAT DID YOU LEARN ABOUT FDR AND THE NEW DEAL?

THINK ABOUT: FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT, DUST BOWL, GREAT DEPRESSION, HITLER, WW2, NEW DEAL, CCC, AAA, WPA, RADIO