https://padlet.com/klopez144/tmvqz9xcrdfz en-us 2018-04-04 19:21:32 UTC 2018-05-16 04:18:47 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Diskette.png klopez144 https://padlet.com/klopez144/tmvqz9xcrdfz/wish/248655307 - The US banks that had been lending money out to European countries stopped loaning money and were asking for their money back. This only made the depression be felt not only in the US but now European countries. 
-In 1928-29 the Federal Reserve raised interest rates on loans to try and solve the wall street 'bubble.' However the Fed may have over done it because it was a cause for the recession. 
-Black Thursday: People were selling their shares in stocks because they feared a crash in the market. Total loss in the market was $30 billion that was 10x the federal budget. ]]> 2018-04-04 19:32:16 UTC https://padlet.com/klopez144/tmvqz9xcrdfz/wish/248655307 klopez144 https://padlet.com/klopez144/tmvqz9xcrdfz/wish/260908793 It was a global economic crisis which was mainly created because of post WW1 politics and the crash of the stock market.]]> 2018-05-15 15:59:25 UTC https://padlet.com/klopez144/tmvqz9xcrdfz/wish/260908793 klopez144 https://padlet.com/klopez144/tmvqz9xcrdfz/wish/260909525 -Emergency Tariff Act: The president was allowed to adjust tariffs by 50% to balance foreign and domestic production costs, this was done to help American farmers.
-Congress passed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff act. Hoover signed the bill although economists protested. It is unlikely that tariffs alone caused the Great Depression, but they fostered global protectionism; world trade declined by 66% from 1929 to 1934.

]]> 2018-05-15 16:01:21 UTC https://padlet.com/klopez144/tmvqz9xcrdfz/wish/260909525 klopez144 https://padlet.com/klopez144/tmvqz9xcrdfz/wish/260913021 The New Deal was projects created by FDR during the great depression, they were aimed to bring prosperity back to people. He promised Americans that the US would not go to war unless they were attacked by an outside enemy. 
-Roosevelt declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks. On March 9, Congress passed Roosevelt’s Emergency Banking Act, which reorganized the banks and closed the ones that were insolvent. Three days later, the president urged Americans to put their savings back in the banks, and by the end of the month almost three quarters of them had reopened.
-At the end of the year, Congress ratified the 21st Amendment and ended Prohibition for good.
- Tennessee Valley Authority Act into law, creating the TVA and enabling the federal government to build dams along the Tennessee River that controlled flooding and generated inexpensive hydroelectric power for the people in the region.
-June’s National Industrial Recovery Act guaranteed that workers would have the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions; it also suspended some antitrust laws and established a federally funded Public Works Administration.]]> 2018-05-15 16:09:58 UTC https://padlet.com/klopez144/tmvqz9xcrdfz/wish/260913021 klopez144 https://padlet.com/klopez144/tmvqz9xcrdfz/wish/260918540 -The unemployment rate was approximately 30 per cent and one in five Canadians depended on the government to survive.
- R. B. Bennett’s Conservative government at first opposed increases in federal spending and an expansion of the federal role in social welfare because Bennett believed that free enterprise and tariffs would protect Canadian industry and ensure access to export markets. But Bennett’s policies and those of William Lyon Mackenzie King had the desired effect on the Great Depression many Canadians who emerged from the period are haunted by the times they lived in poverty.]]> 2018-05-15 16:23:44 UTC https://padlet.com/klopez144/tmvqz9xcrdfz/wish/260918540 klopez144 https://padlet.com/klopez144/tmvqz9xcrdfz/wish/260920092 Argentina: Tariffs and Debt National debt increased b/c of growth in bureacracy. Government revenue fell from 481M to 461M pesos and spending increased from 503M to 614M in 1921-22.
Trade with the USA suffered because of the Fordney-McCumber Tariff act. They tried to restore relationships with Europe.]]> 2018-05-15 16:27:51 UTC https://padlet.com/klopez144/tmvqz9xcrdfz/wish/260920092 klopez144 https://padlet.com/klopez144/tmvqz9xcrdfz/wish/261082919 -Women now got jobs and helped men the "breadwinners" bring in the money.
-Women made up 25% of the workforce.
-Women worked as teachers, secretaries, librarians and nurses. 
-Women began to take their financial futures into their own hands, turning to college for training for future careers.]]> 2018-05-16 04:08:41 UTC https://padlet.com/klopez144/tmvqz9xcrdfz/wish/261082919 klopez144 https://padlet.com/klopez144/tmvqz9xcrdfz/wish/261083356 -African Americans were the first to go when people got laid off from their jobs.
-African Americans often received substantially less aid than whites, and some charitable organizations even excluded blacks from their soup kitchens.
-the St. Louis Urban League launched a national “jobs for Negroes” movement by boycotting chain stores that had mostly black customers but hired only white employees.
-African Americans benefited greatly from New Deal programs, though discrimination by local administrators was common. Low-cost public housing was made available to black families. ]]> 2018-05-16 04:11:44 UTC https://padlet.com/klopez144/tmvqz9xcrdfz/wish/261083356