Warm Up • View the following video clips and list the characteristics that you see in each clip. • Marx Brothers (Duck Soup) • https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSabiG8q8-k • Charlie Chaplin (Modern Times) • https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfw0KapQ3qw • Why do you think people in the 1930’s enjoyed watching shows like this?
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Warm Up• View the following video clips and list the characteristics that
you see in each clip.• Marx Brothers (Duck Soup)• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSabiG8q8-k
• Charlie Chaplin (Modern Times)• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfw0KapQ3qw
• Why do you think people in the 1930’s enjoyed watching shows like this?
Cause and Culture of the Great Depression Read Along• Instructions: As we go through the Power Point presentation,
we will stop at the appropriate places and you will answer the following questions/diagrams by talking to your partner. Every question is worth 6 points each.
What is the Great Depression?• Prior to this unit, we learned about the “Roaring Twenties”
and the economic causes of the Stock Market Crash. During this unit we will study other causes of the depression, the geographic impact of the Dust Bowl, Roosevelt’s New Deal efforts, and the changes in the role of the government.
1. Impact of tariffs on world trade – high tariffs limited foreign trade.2. Stock market speculation – buying stocks on margin led to rampant
speculation 3. Bank failures – once the stock market crashed, millions of
Americans began to withdraw their money. They put thousands of banks in peril. The more money Americans withdrew, the more banks failed, and the more banks failed, the more money Americans withdrew.
4. The monetary policy of the Federal Reserve System – the "Fed" indirectly sets interest rates because it loans money, at a base rate, to commercial banks.
Causes Leading to the Great Depression in the Lives of U.S. Citizens Review
1. People put money in banks. 2. Banks invest some of the people’s money3. Stock market crashes (October 29, 1929) 4. People make runs on banks to recover their savings5. Banks don’t have enough money on hand and must close
their doors6. People fall into poverty
Read Along Stop#1• Fill out the graphic organizers “ Causes of the Great
Depression "and “Effects of the Great Depression.
Living in the Great Depression
• Unemployment in the U.S. rose sharply from 1929 to 1933. By 1933 unemployment was at 25%.
• The U.S. government looked for ways to ease the country’s financial hardship.
• In order to make more jobs available, the government deported many people of European and Mexican heritage.
President Hoover• Elected in 1929 from the Republican Party and is conservative.
Believes that least involved the government is in the lives of the citizens the better.
• “Every time we find solutions outside of the government, we have not only strengthen character, but we have preserved our sense of real government.” Herbert Hoover
• Hoover believed in and personified that the notion that expertise and rationalization of politics would carry the day. The problem with him is that he was faced with a crisis (The Great Depression) of unprecedented proportions. Also, Hoover’s inherent caution and conservatism insured failure. He failed to recognize the severity of the crisis and formulate a plan to solve the crisis.