Terms for March 16 & 18th 4 Major Causes of the Great Depression Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) Hooverville Bonus Army “End Poverty in California”

Terms for March 16 & 18th

• 4 Major Causes of the Great Depression• Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)• Hooverville• Bonus Army• “End Poverty in California” (EPIC)• Townsend Plan• Social Security Act of 1935• The New Deal • The Second New Deal

Causes of the Great Depression

1. Stock market crash/lending crisis

2. Pre-1929 weaknesses in the US economy

3. Unequal distribution of wealth

4. Worldwide economic problems

From The Grapes of Wrath (Heritage Press, 1940)Collection of the Pace University Library

A Hooverville

Hooverville in Seattle, WA

Hooverville – Portland, OR

Hooverville – Circleville, OH

Sacramento, CA

Part of the Bonus Army’s CampSummer 1932

Working for the CCC:forestry, flood control, soil erosion

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Begun April 1933: 3 million single, unemployed men ages 18-24. In 9 years accomplished:

• 89,000 miles of telephone line was installed• 126,000 miles of roads and trails were

constructed• 6,459,000 man-days were expended fighting

fires• 6,660,000 erosion control check dams were built

• 2,356,000,000 trees were planted

Challenges from the Left:Upton Sinclair’s “EPIC” Plan

Challenges from the Left:Dr. Townsend