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Ch 25 - The Great Depression and New Deal
Review: AMSCO Ch 24

Detailed outline I:

Detailed outline II:

This Wednesday 2/29: Leap Day Ch 24 quiz

This Friday 3/2 and next Monday 3/5: bring your art supplies for your Great Depression art project

__Mon 2/27__


 * Text pp. 969-979**

FDR recites the entire Oath of Office, March 1933 state bank closures, Rex Tugwell (Brain Truster), "fear itself," FDR's request for emergency power, 1920s speculative bubble in securities, Black Thursday and Black Tuesday, impact of stock market collapse, Bank of the United States,1930 banking panic, consumer spending, purchasing power, "margin buying" of securities, international nature of the Depression, human impact of the Depression (unemployment, foreclosures, homelessness), breadlines and soup kitchens, local relief efforts, Depression's impact on the family, the Depression and racial tension, "Scottsboro boys," California's ejection of Mexican immigrants, Dust Bowl, Okies, Steinbeck and __The Grapes of Wrath__, Herbert Hoover "The Great Engineer," business cycle, Hoover's voluntaristic approach to recovery, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the "Hoover Depression" and "hoovervilles," Bonus Army, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Battle of Anacostia Flats

__Tues 2/28__

Prepare for text Ch 24 quiz. Standard format. Detailed 1920s outline NOT produced by me OR adapted for our textbook:

Use AMSCO Ch 23 for review. Practice MCQ answer key: 1-A 2-C 3-B 4-C 5-A 6-C (but don't make the mistake of seeing Hoover as the same kind of Republican as Coolidge) 7-B 8-E 9-B 10-C

__Weds 2/29__

Happy Leap Day!


 * Text pp. 979-989**

FDR's political biography, TR comparison? (NY legislator, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, NY governor, progressive), 1932 Demoncratic National Convention ("New Deal" speech), John "Cactus Jack" Nance Garner, presidential election of 1928, FDR's inauguration (see opening vignette),

__I. the "First New Deal" aka the "Hundred Days" (1933)__ Financial relief and reform: national bank holiday, Emergency Banking Act, Fireside Chats, (2nd) Glass-Steagall Banking Act, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), financial disclosure, Homeowners' Loan Corporation (HOLC),

Fiscal stability: Economy Act, Beer-Wine Revenue Act (21st Amendment repealing Prohibition passes later)


 * R**elief: Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), Harry Hopkins, Civil Works Administration (CWA)


 * R**ecovery and **R**eform: Public Works Administration, Harold Ickes (rhymes with "Dickies"), Agricultural Adjustment Act/Administration (AAA), allotment policy aka "paying something for nothing," Henry Wallace, //Butler v. US//, National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), National Recovery Administration (NRA), NRA industrial codes, Section 7(a), the Blue Eagle, //Schecter v. US// (the "sick chicken case"), Hoover and Grand Coulee Dams, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Rural Electrification Administration (REA, actually part of 2nd New Deal's Big Bill)

__II. the "Second New Deal" (1935)__ 1934 midterm elections, early New Deal critics (Charles Coughlin, Dr. Francis Townshend, Gov. and then Sen. Huey Long (D-LA), Upton Sinclair's gubernatorial bid, End Poverty in California/EPIC)


 * R**elief: Emergency Relief Appropriation Act (the "Big Bill"), Works Progress Administration (WPA), "Federal One" program (Federal Artists, Writers, Music, and Theater Projects), //American Guide// series, //Life in America//
 * R**eform: National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act), National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Social Security Act/Administration (SSA), unemployment insurance