https://padlet.com/andycardenas2012/nlr9hisev47d I feel pretty depressed myself :D en-us 2018-04-04 19:23:34 UTC 2026-02-21 19:35:25 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Manbag.png andycardenas2012 https://padlet.com/andycardenas2012/nlr9hisev47d/wish/248653628 Economic:
*Around this time, people were constantly buying on credit. They racked up their debt, thinking they would pay it back later on. This only contributed to the instability of the US economy.
*High speculation made things very unstable. People bought stocks that were very risky. When the stocks went bad, people lost money, and there was a run on the banks.
*Banks constantly giving loans, thinking they'd be paid back. When the people defaulted on their loans (couldn't pay back), the banks ran out of money and went bankrupt. 
*Income inequality; the richer people got richer, while the poorer people didn't make much.
Political: 
*Around this time, after WW1, the US was trying to keep away from interacting with other nations. Isolationism had a big impact on policies in the US. 
*The Fordney-McCumber Tariff: raised the tax on imported goods from 25% in 1913 to 38.5% in 1922. This angered US trading partners, and it even angered some businesses in the US. This tariff harmed global trade and made it more unstable. ]]> 2018-04-04 19:27:20 UTC https://padlet.com/andycardenas2012/nlr9hisev47d/wish/248653628 andycardenas2012 https://padlet.com/andycardenas2012/nlr9hisev47d/wish/248653858 The New Deal was a series of economic reforms put forth by FDR when he first entered the office.
*Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC): young men were given work, usually paid one dollar a day.
*Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA): gave $500 million to the starving and homeless people in America.
*Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA): manipulated amount of crops grown to boost crop prices.
*Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA): built multiple dams (like the Hoover Dam), controlled flooding and made jobs.
*Public Works Administration (PWA): created jobs through public work projects like building parks, buildings, etc.
*National Recovery Administration (NRA): prompted employers to pay and charge fairer prices. ]]> 2018-04-04 19:28:00 UTC https://padlet.com/andycardenas2012/nlr9hisev47d/wish/248653858 andycardenas2012 https://padlet.com/andycardenas2012/nlr9hisev47d/wish/248654056 A lot of the causes of the Great Depression in the US were shared with Canada. But the US' drop in imports (due to their spike in import tariffs) during the GD caused a big shock to Canada's economy and was also a big cause of the GD in Canada. Canada, like the US, overproduced in the agricultural industry, and the drop in demand also hit their economy.  However, the stock market collapse and over speculation was not as big of issues in Canada. 
Causes:
*Overdependence in trade; hit when global trade slowed down.
*Overproduction of crops and other products
*Weak demand in some areas; hurt when overproduction increased
*Large gap between rich and poor 
*Increased trade tariffs (like the US), inhibited trade with other countries.
Effects:
*Large increase in unemployment; 4% in 1929 to 27% in 1933
*Trade fell badly, especially after the Harley-Smoot Tariff of 1930
Responses:
Mackenzie King and the Liberal Party thought the GD nothing too significant. They thought the drop in jobs was just "seasonal slackness." The most he did was tariffs, but that only made the situation worse. For this, he was compared to US president Herbert Hoover, he was infamous for having done "nothing." He didn't want to spend money on the provinces, thinking they'd only waste the money. This left the provinces and cities to find relief by themselves.
Then came R. B. Bennett. He was against King, promising to ease unemployment. His early policies were based mainly on preserving order in Canada. He spied on union meetings, dealt with unemployed marchers (some were arrested), and some things were censored. 
Gov. work camps were made with the "Royal Twenty Centers" who were unemployed and unmarried men. They worked on these poor camps for 20 cents a day. 
The "on to Ottowa" protest started off big, and it got bigger. Soon it devolved into riots and it was a direct challenge to Bennett's gov. 
The provinces of Canada were suffering during the GD. Some of them were in desperate need of gov. relief. Initially, Bennett introduced the Unemployment Relief Act of 1931. With it, he gave 20 million dollars for relief. Soon after, the Unemployment and Farm Relief Bill in 1931 was created. He hoped that the provinces themselves could contribute half of the cost needed, but that was unlikely. Some of them requested the gov. contribute up to 80% of the funds. Some provinces moved towards bankruptcy, this is when the gov. actually intervened. 
He also started issuing tariffs, raising tariffs on imports by 50%. It was successful in the beginning, protecting Canadian industry. But in the long run, tariffs inhibited trade; Canada was very dependent on trade, and the decline of trade from tariffs really hurt Canada. 
Bennett was convinced that the provinces were "wasteful," thinking they had enough money to actually handle their own problems. 
He was blamed for failing to keep his promise to bring Canada out of the GD. 

However, after so long, Bennett changed his mind. In 1935, he turned from wanting to keep gov. out of the economy into wanting to use the gov. to assist the economy. He wanted to create his own New Deal. ]]> 2018-04-04 19:28:38 UTC https://padlet.com/andycardenas2012/nlr9hisev47d/wish/248654056 andycardenas2012 https://padlet.com/andycardenas2012/nlr9hisev47d/wish/248654153 Changes in the world (like the state of the US, Britain, France, etc.), would have a big impact on Latin American countries. The dependence of trading one good (such as sugar) inhibited diversification in the economy. Many countries were stuck making big profit on a single kind of crop. When the market crashed in 1929, the demand for crops declined a lot. This left a lot of countries with over-produced crops with no one to sell them to. This led to drastic unemployment in most countries. Brazil, for example, was terribly affected by the drop in demand for coffee, its main export. They had loads of it, keeping it to maintain price in trade. But when the market died and trade fell, the money dried up. ]]> 2018-04-04 19:28:54 UTC https://padlet.com/andycardenas2012/nlr9hisev47d/wish/248654153 andycardenas2012 https://padlet.com/andycardenas2012/nlr9hisev47d/wish/248654294 African Americans: though there were more job opportunities in cities before the depression, African Americans were often the first to lose their jobs when the economy fell. Even the smallest jobs were taken away from them, being replaced by the white men. 
Women: Women who had any job before the depression mostly lost them. Instead, they were replaced by men. There were even some laws that banned women from working in some states. Women were put back in the house, where they worked for the family. This was made even harder when the income was low, and the women had to support their families with this reduced income. if the husband was unemployed, then the wife was often forced to go find work.
Hispanics: many Hispanics worked in agriculture, and when the demand for crops fell, competition for farm jobs rose. Whites often saw Hispanics as rivals or even parasites to their economy and discriminated against the Hispanics. ]]> 2018-04-04 19:29:16 UTC https://padlet.com/andycardenas2012/nlr9hisev47d/wish/248654294 andycardenas2012 https://padlet.com/andycardenas2012/nlr9hisev47d/wish/248654511 The New Deal had some impact on the arts; the Resettlement Agency used photos to show the problems farms face, and what the agency was trying to fix. A famous photographer was Dorothea Lange. She created "Mirant Mother," a photo of an exhausted mother and her children. Overall, a lot of photographs were made to promote the New Deal and its policies. This was a kind of propaganda, which caused some controversy in the US. It made the Republicans look bad, and the Democrats look good. There was also support for film; Pare Lorentz made films like The River and The Plow that Broke the Plains. The films had messages; like the Plow that Broke the Plains was meant to support management of natural resources. Gangster movies are thought to have been made influenced by the GD; they supported hard work and individualism to find success. There were also films that criticized the hardships of the GD. The gov. didn't do much for the art of writing. When the Federal Theatre Project of 1935 came, writers took issues at the time and tried to educate the audience with their writing. The GD saw the decline of individualism with the rise of the radio. Radios were able to expand the news; allowing America to become more connected. It was even used for politics, as FDR used them to connect with Americans. ]]> 2018-04-04 19:29:48 UTC https://padlet.com/andycardenas2012/nlr9hisev47d/wish/248654511