The+Great+Depression

//**Terms: stock, speculation, margin, SEC, dividend, bull/bear markets, foreclosure, unemployment, "volunteerism", Bonus Army, hobo, subsidy, The New Deal, "alphabet soup programs", FDIC, The Dust Bowl**// Click below to see the Great Depression Power Point we used in class: =**"If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end".**=

="No nation or individual has been able to squander itself into prosperity".=

="Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die".=

="It is a pardox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech.= =Immediately on attainingpower each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own"= media type="youtube" key="FXNziew6C9A" width="420" height="315"
 * President Herbert Hoover**
 * Here are the lyrics to a 1920's pop song...."I'm in the market for you" by George Olsen**
 * I'll have to see my broker**
 * Find out what he can do.**
 * 'Cause I'm in the market for you.**
 * There won't be any joker,**
 * With margin I'm all through.**
 * 'Cause I want you outright it's true.**
 * You're going up, up, up, in my estimation.**
 * I want a thousand shares of your caresses too.**
 * We'll count the hugs and kisses,**
 * When dividends are due,**
 * 'Cause I'm in the market for you.**

Stock

Anti Hoover and Anti FDR Cartoons The Hoover Dam 1931-1935 media type="custom" key="12052507" Hoover Dam Pics Click here for a short video clip about the "Bonus Army". media type="custom" key="12039951" Read an eyewitness account to the famous Bonus Army March of 1932. [] Click here to see some original photos of the Bonus Army [|Bonus Army] Note: The soldiers were to be paid $1 for everday served in the military stateside and $1.25 for everyday served overseas. A typical deployment overseas during WW1 was about 6 months to 1 year so you can do the math..... [|another great description of the Bonus Army here]


 * Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes:**
 * "Our Constitution is so simple and practical that it is possible always to meet extraordinary needs by**
 * changes in emphasis and arrangement with out loss of essential form".**


 * "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether**
 * we provide enough for those who have too little".**


 * "We must be the great arsenal of democracy".**


 * "The truth is found when men are free to pursue it".**


 * "When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries everywhere is in danger".**



Go here for the introductory notes on FDR.

Listen to the first "Fireside Chat" given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in March, 1933. [] If interested, go here for more information on the [|Federal Reserve Banks]

A "hobo" riding the rails "Hooverflags" A "Hooverville": Modern hobo signs: media type="custom" key="5567267"

New Deal Programs

The "Dirty Thirties" a natural disaster coincides with an economic one:

Click on the "black blizzard" photo to the right for more information on the Dust Bowl. Go to this site for lots of photos taken during the Great Depression. []

Click on the photos of "Migrant Mother" below to get the real story! =**"The Migrant Mother photo is the best example of the effect the Depression**= =**had on the American people; true or false".**= Read the account of one of the most famous photographs taken in American History- "Migrant Mother" []

Lou Hoover Eleanor Roosevelt A short introduction to one of our most famous fliers, Amelia Earhart! media type="custom" key="5791841" [|Amelia Earhart Bio] Some 30's entertainment!

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[|King Kong 1933 Bio] Marian Anderson media type="custom" key="22134164" Bonnie and Clyde before and after they were killled in Louisiana in 1934 Bonnie and Clyde car now! Thank you Caroline Juelke! media type="custom" key="12190338"Brother can you spare a dime?

The end of the Great Depression. Did the New Deal work? Read what FDR's Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. thought:

"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong … somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises. … I say after eight years of this Administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started. … And an enormous debt to boot."

media type="custom" key="25222686"media type="custom" key="25222692" The Great Depression Test Review