Grade 8 History Remote Learning Assignments: Week 2 For each day’s work, be sure to use all of the strategies that you have learned and answer the questions in Illuminate. Day Assignment Links Resources on Google Classroom Monday The New Deal Link to Illuminate https://www.youtube.com/w ● Read through the atch?v=0rjtOWn5mj0 3/30/202 packet and take notes Link to Google Classroom​ (LES) 0 on a separate sheet of https://www.youtube.com/w paper. *Packet is already in illuminate and on atch?v=WvcWeNf9g6A ● Answer the 2 Multiple Google Classroom Choice Questions and JOY: the Short answer https://www.youtube.com/w Response on *you must know your OSIS ID number in atch?v=hsw4B1PWZLQ order to submit your answers in Illuminate Illuminate. Tuesday Current events - Coronavirus Link to Illuminate Full article on CARES Act Stimulus Package https://apnews.com/be6a3 ● 3/31/202 Read through packet Link to Google Classroom​ (LES) 43cc5a8ee6672a135a968 0 ● Answer 2 multiple 49a4d4 choice questions and *Packet is already in illuminate and on short response Google Classroom question ● Answer bonus *you must know your ID number in order to question on Google submit your answers in Illuminate. Classroom Wednesday The Treaty of Versaille Link to illuminate Two very short and very ● Read through the helpful video clips from 4/1/2020 packet and analyze Link to Google Classroom​ (LES) Crash Course History about images The Treaty of Versaille ● Answer the 3 multiple *Packet is already in illuminate and on choice questions in Google Classroom https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=0jycVFL8CNM Illuminate ● Answer the bonus https://www.youtube.com/ question on Google *you must know your ID number in order to watch?v=vrYhLNQMRro Classroom submit your answers in Illuminate. I. Week 2 Day 1: New Deal (Monday): Before you begin… In our course of study, we learned that the United States came out of World War 1 better than ever. For the first time in history, the United States was beginning to develop into a consumer society and people began to buy using credit, lots of credit! By the end of the decade (1929) however, the stock market crashed and led to a 10 year long economic depression. Before you begin reading about how President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) dealt with the depression during his Presidency, think about the following questions: 1. How should the government help people during an economic crisis? 2. What role should the government play in an economic crisis? 3. What sort of government programs or government assistance comes to mind? New Deal Introduction: After the 1929 stock market crash, President Herbert Hoover and his administration attempted to relieve the negative effects of the Great Depression but were unable to significantly improve the economy. Hoover’s inability to help Americans during the first years of the Great Depression led to his defeat to Franklin Delano ​ Roosevelt (FDR) in 1932. He was the nation's ​ 32nd President and served until his death in 1945. When FDR took office in 1933, he enacted a range ​ ​ ​ of experimental programs to combat the Great ​ ​ Depression known as The New Deal. New Deal Key Points: ● The New Deal was a set of domestic policies enacted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt that dramatically expanded the federal government’s role in the economy in response to the ​ ​ ​ Great Depression. ● Historians commonly speak of a First New Deal (1933-1934), with the “alphabet soup” of relief, recovery, and reform agencies it created, and a Second New Deal (1935-1938) that offered further legislative reforms and created the groundwork for today’s modern social welfare system. ● It was the massive military expenditures of World War II, not the New Deal, that eventually pulled the United States out of the Great Depression. Goals of The New Deal: The New Deal created a range of federal government programs that sought to offer economic relief to the suffering (workers), regulate private industry, and grow the economy. The New Deal is often summed up by the “Three Rs”: ● Relief (for the unemployed) ​ ● Recovery (of the economy through federal spending and job creation), and ​ ● Reform (of capitalism, by creating regulatory laws and the creation of new social welfare ​ programs) Roosevelt’s New Deal expanded the role of the federal government and established a the ​ ​ ​ principle that the government is responsible for the welfare(well-being) of its citizens. As one ​ ​ ​ historian has put it: “Before the 1930s, national political debate often revolved around the question of whether or not the federal government should intervene in the economy. After the New Deal, debate ​ rested on how it should intervene.” ​ ​ The First New Deal (1933-1934) ● At the time of Roosevelt’s inauguration on March 4, 1933 the nation had been spiraling downward into the worst economic crisis in its history. Industrial output was only half of what it had been three years earlier, the stock market had recovered only slightly from its catastrophic losses, and unemployment stood at a staggering 25 percent (Fun Fact: This was the highest rate of ​ unemployment until the CoronaVirus outbreak this year. The current unemployment rate is at about 30% and rising). ● The First New Deal began with legislative action called “The First Hundred Days.” From March ​ ​ through June 1933, at FDR’s orders, Congress passed legislation aimed at addressing the ​ banking crisis, unemployment, and weak industrial performance, among other problems. ● Roosevelt also created government agencies designed to help Americans, because they had long names, they became known as Alphabet Agencies. Some of the most important alphabet agencies created were: → The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), which boosted agricultural prices by offering government ​ subsidies to farmers to reduce output. → The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which employed young, single men at federally funded ​ jobs on government lands. → The Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA), which gave federal grants to states that funded ​ salaries for government workers as well as local soup kitchens and other direct-aid to the poor programs. → The National Recovery Act (NRA), which sought to boost businesses’ profits and workers’ wages ​ by establishing industry-by-industry codes that set prices and wages, as well as guaranteeing workers the right to organize into unions. → Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which guaranteed individuals that money they ​ deposited in a bank would be repaid to them by the federal government in the event that their bank went out of business. Question #1 on Illuminate: 1. The New Deal included programs that… a. assumed the depression would pass on its own. b. expected people to take care of themselves. c. took care of poor and unemployed people. d. discriminated against African Americans. The Second New Deal (1935-1938): The second phase of the New Deal focused on increasing worker protections and building long-lasting ​ financial security for Americans. Four of the most notable pieces of legislation included: 1. The Works Progress Administration (WPA), which employed millions of Americans in public ​ works projects, from constructing bridges and roads to painting murals and writing plays. 2. The Wagner Labor Relations Act, which guaranteed workers the right to form unions and ​ ​ bargain collectively. 3. The Social Security Act (SSA), which required workers and employers to contribute—through ​ a payroll tax—to the Social Security trust fund. That fund, in turn, makes monthly payments to retirees over the age of 65, as well as to the long-term disabled citizens. 4. The Fair Labor Standards Act, which mandated a 40-hour work week (with time-and-a-half for ​ ​ overtime), set an hourly minimum wage, and restricted child labor Legacy of The New Deal: ● Roosevelt’s New Deal sought to reinvigorate the economy by stimulating consumer demand. This was based on the ideas of British economist John Maynard Keynes. Keynes argued that government spending that put money in consumers' hands would allow them to buy then, as employers sold more and more products, they would have the money to hire more and more workers, who could afford to buy more and more products, and so on. In this way, Roosevelt and his supporters theorized, the Great Depression’s downward economic spiral could be reversed. ● Despite the New Deal's lofty dreams, the United States only fully recovered from the Great Depression due to massive military spending brought on by the Second World War. ● Nevertheless, key elements in the New Deal remain with us today, including federal regulation of wages, hours, child labor, and collective bargaining rights, as well as the social security system Analyze the image below and answer Q#2: Title: “ Of course we may have to change remedies if we don’t get results” Question #2 on Illuminate: 2. What is the main idea of this cartoon? a. Congress and FDR were unable to provide relief during the Great Depression. b. FDR used a system of trial and error to mend the economy. c. FDR followed the recommendations of congress. d. FDR and Congress always argued about how to help the economy. Question #3 on Illuminate: 3. What aspects of the New Deal, if any, do you see in American society today? What role do you think the government should play during times of crisis like today and the Great Depression? (Should the government protect its citizens or take a step back). (Short Answer Response) Respond in no less than 5 sentences in addition to directly referencing a law/ agency from today’s lesson. Be specific. Day 2 Current Events (Tuesday): Yesterday you learned about how the New Deal impacted Americans going through difficult financial times during the Great Depression. In current times, the closures of businesses, schools, and the stoppage of public life is beginning to have economic effects.