Tasks:
- Review: What are the problems that emerge from the Great Depression?
- High unemployment
- Failing farms, industry, and banks
- Home foreclosures
- Fear among Americans
- Using your notes, How did the Hoover administration respond?
- Write your response to this question in your notes.
How have people come to view Hoover and his actions in response to the Great Depression?
- Listen to the song "We'd Like to Thank You Herbert Hoover" from Annie musical.
- What is the tone of the song?
- What can we infer about the mood of the country?
- Historian analysis
- What is the argument about Hoover made by the historians, Hofstadter and Jeansomme?
- Are their interpretations of Hoover positive or negative? What evidence in the text can you use as support?
- Segue to the Election 1932
- Significance of election
- Democrats win in landslide victory
- Shifting electorate - African Americans & women vote Democrat
- FDR inaugurated into office, and brings with him enthusiasm & experimentation
- Task: New Deal Program Answers to these questions should be in your notes.
- Describe the purpose of the "Relief" programs, and explain how ONE piece of legislation fulfilled the intended goal.
- Describe the purpose of the "Recovery" programs, and explain how ONE piece of legislation fulfilled the intended goal.
- Describe the purpose of the "Reform" programs, and explain how ONE piece of legislation fulfilled the intended goal.
