US History Unit 5 HW Packet ______This is not just your homework it is also guide as a study tool for both the section quizzes and the unit test. It is very important that you know more than just the definition of each of the terms below. Understand the impact each of the terms had on other events and their connections to other events. Make sure you know the “who, what, when, where, and why” significance, causes and effects, etc. for each term and answer the main idea questions as completely as possible (this means more than a couple of sentences). ______
Chapter 11, section 1 Gross National Product Hoover Black Tuesday Welfare capitalism Buying on margin Stock Federal Reserve System
Main Idea Questions: 1. What economic factors and conditions made the American economy appear prosperous in the 1920s? 2. What were the basic economic weaknesses in the American economy in the late 1920s? 3. What events led to the stock market crash of October 1929? 4. What were the effects of the crash on the economy of the US and the world? How did it affect individual investors, brokers and banks? Why?
Chapter 11, section 2 Hobo Foreclosure Dust Bowl Great Depression Hoovervilles Okies Bank runs Drought
Main Idea Questions: 1. Explain how the stock market crash transformed into the Great Depression. 2. Describe the specific problems that farmers faced during the Depression. 3. What was the human impact of the Great Depression? How did people try to cope with their situations?
Chapter 11, Section 3 Bonus Army Hoover Dam Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act “Rugged individualism” Cooperative Bonus March Associative state RFC
Main Idea Questions: 1. What was President Hoover’s basic philosophy about the proper role of the government? 2. What actions did Hoover take in response to the Great Depression? 3. How did the nation respond to Hoover’s efforts? 4. What were some actions – taken or not taken- that made voters believe Hoover did not care?
Chapter 12, Section 1 Fireside chats 3 R’s Huey P. Long Hundred Days Subsidy Father Charles Coughlin New Deal Indian Reorganization Act Dr. Francis Townsend
Main Idea Questions: 1. Describe FDR’s life prior to running for President. How did he seem different than Hoover? 2. What was Franklin Roosevelt’s campaign strategy in the election of 1932? 3. What initial actions did FDR take to stabilize the economy? 4. Describe the opposition to the New Deal? Who opposed it and why? 5. How did the Supreme Court respond to the New Deal? Explain.
Chapter 12, Section 2 Second New Deal Sit-down strike Deficit Social Security Court Packing Plan John Maynard Keynes
Main Idea Questions: 1. Describe the key programs of the Second Hundred Days. 2. How did New Deal programs help to revive organized labor? 3. What were the key events of the 1936 election? 4. Why was 1937 a troubled year for FDR and the Second New Deal?
Chapter 12, Section 3 Frances Perkins Dorothea Lange Black Cabinet Swing Mary McLeod Bethune
Main Idea Questions: 1. How did the public roles of women and African Americans change during the New Deal? 2. What was the overall effect of Roosevelt’s policies on women and African Americans in the 1930s? 3. How did artists and writers of the era tell the story of the Great Depression?
Chapter 12, Section 4 Minimum Wage Marian Anderson
Main Idea Questions: 1. How did the New Deal impact relationships among important segments of American society? 2. What were some of the limits of the New Deal?