Chapter 25 project ––– Catherine, Liza, and Hannah by Catherine Sherling

Catherine Sherling – Picture #1

catherinesherling1 — 2014-02-17 15:56:52 UTC

This is a famous picture about a mother who was traveling with her children. She was migrating to the west. This shows how the other half lives, and how bad the Great Depression.

These are the 6 video questions

hannah_saad — 2014-02-17 16:00:12 UTC

Question 1: Why did people think that they could get rich by investing in stocks?
Question 2: Where did the people borrow money from when they couldn't afford to buy a stock with their own money?
Question 3: Why were people getting frustrated with government?
Question 4: What were margin calls?
Question 5: Why were people so scared of losing all of their money?
Question 6: What did people try to do as a solution to the stock market crashes?

Liza Sharpley - Fun Fact

liza_sharpley — 2014-02-17 16:10:11 UTC

The stock markets all crashed and all of America, even the wealthy people, panicked. People paid for stocks on credit that they couldn't pay, and many people went broke. There were hungry men in the streets. It was a full-out panic

Liza Sharpley - Political Cartoon

liza_sharpley — 2014-02-17 16:17:51 UTC

This man suffered from bank failure and did not save his money for anything like this. The symbols are the picture are the little piece of paper that says victim of bank failure. Also he is sitting on a ugly park bench which most likely means he is homeless.

Hannah Saad - Fun Fact

hannah_saad — 2014-02-18 01:21:15 UTC

People were buying stocks that they couldn't afford so they used credit or borrowed money to pay for them. People thought that if they bought a stock that they would instantly become rich.

Catherine Sherling – Picture #2

catherinesherling1 — 2014-02-18 13:31:09 UTC

This picture shows the troubles of the children with broke parents. These children are starving because of the generation before made mistakes. The turmoil is terrible.

Hannah Saad - Picture

hannah_saad — 2014-02-18 13:36:10 UTC

This is a picture of a sign outside of a soup kitchen. The prices are very cheap because nobody could afford anything more expensive then that.

Liza, Hannah, and Catherine - Change

catherinesherling1 — 2014-02-18 13:38:27 UTC

The change in the Great Depression was enormous. Some people didn't trust other people after they lost their money. Socially, there wasn't much improvement. People were afraid to get too involved in other people. Economically, there was a MAJOR drop in the amount in people's wallets. Even banks went bankrupt, and people lost their life savings. Politically, Herbert Hoover, the prosident at the time, didn't do anything to help the country at this distressed. He believed the country should be able to rebuild it's self. But that didn't happen. Small neighborhoods filled with boxes and homeless were called Hoovervilles, because of how little the president did to help.

Hannah Saad -Economical Change

hannah_saad — 2014-02-18 20:57:58 UTC

The start of the great depression is when the stock market crashed. The stock market lost 11 billion dollars in value on black Tuesday. The value drop in stocks was so dramatic that before the stock market had a value of over $87 billion dollars, and less than two months later that value dropped over $30 billion dollars due to stock market crashes and people not wanting to buy any more stocks. Another thing that was going on was that everybody was losing there money and were trying to with draw all of their money from the bank. The bank did not keep enough on hand to pay everybody back so many banks had to shut down.

Liza POLITICAL CHANGE

liza_sharpley — 2014-02-18 21:53:02 UTC

During the Great Depression, many things changed. The president changed from Herbert Hoover to Franklin D. Roosevelt, because people thought that he was the cause of the Great depression. The stock market crashed, which made stock prices go down, which then made the economy go down. During all of this when Hoover was president, he tried to calm everyone down by saying that everything is okay. People still panicked and tried to sell stocks all at one time, which made stock prices drop. During the 1930s many political changes happened, and they were not for the better. This is why the time period was known as the Great Depression.

SECTION 2

catherinesherling1 — 2014-02-21 15:01:50 UTC

Section 1

hannah_saad — 2014-02-21 15:09:04 UTC

Hannah Saad Picture

hannah_saad — 2014-02-21 15:10:28 UTC

This is a picture of a sit down strike which is when people would sit where they worked but wouldn't work. They would sit and stay there so they couldn't be replaced. This particular strike is a miners strike.

liza_sharpley — 2014-02-21 15:10:44 UTC

Liza Sharpley PICTURE

liza_sharpley — 2014-02-21 15:10:58 UTC

The National Youth assosisation

helped many children continue

school while working to support

their families

hannah_saad — 2014-02-21 15:14:13 UTC

Catherine SOCIAL CHANGE

catherinesherling1 — 2014-02-21 15:14:33 UTC

Further in the Great Depression, there was a new hope of receiving a job. President Roosevelt's New Deal was composed of jobs such as building dams and generators in Tennessee River Valley. When the Social Security Act was taken into place, people rejoiced and were ecstatic. People also performed sit-down strikes, where people refused to leave their jobs so they couldn't be fired.

Liza Sharpley POLITICAL

liza_sharpley — 2014-02-21 15:14:51 UTC

During the 1930s the change in political was massive. President Roosevelt acquired a deal that became known as the new deal. It helped aid our economy, and it helped people who did not have jobs. A lot of new deals were made like the Tenseness Valley Authority which helped people who lived in the Tennessee. Many New deals were made to help prevent the Depression. They may have helped, but they did not prevent. Making this a bad political change.

Hannah Saad Economical

hannah_saad — 2014-02-21 15:19:09 UTC

During the great depression Roosevelt and congress had to work together to help aid the economical recovery. Part of recovering the economy was to help bring confidence bank to the banks. Roosevelt announced a bank holiday making all the American banks close for a few days so that congress could pass the Emergency Banking Relief Act. After the Americans had brought there confidence back to banks they invested over 1 million dollars in banks in only one month. Another thing that was economical change was when Huey Long started a program called Share Our Wealth which was a program that taxed rich Americans to give money to the poor. This program was set up so that every family would get at least a $5,000 income every year. The social security act was put into place so that people who were elderly, disabled, or unemployed would have some financial security

Catherine - Picture

catherinesherling1 — 2014-02-21 15:25:39 UTC

This shows a little boy in rags looking in a mirror inside a house of sheets. The interior is covered in newspaper. It shows how bad things could really get in the Great Depression. People were actually living in these "houses", if you could call them that.

Catherine - Fun Fact

catherinesherling1 — 2014-02-21 15:31:21 UTC

A fireside chat was when President Roosevelt went live on the radio. In his first fireside chat, he explained the bank relief law. People went to hundreds of places with radios just to hear him speak.

Hannah Saad - Fun Fact

hannah_saad — 2014-02-22 00:14:56 UTC

Within his first 100 days of presidency Roosevelt went straight to work to help aid the economy. He and congress put together something called the new deal which was the program that helped recover the economy

Political cartoon

liza_sharpley — 2014-02-23 17:03:14 UTC

This cartoon shows that the new deal crushed the free economic system after the great depression. And they were helping the planned economic system grow and become stronger, and the man who stands for the American people did not look so sure about it.

liza_sharpley — 2014-02-23 17:03:33 UTC

Causes of the Great Depression

hannah_saad — 2014-02-24 21:44:36 UTC

1. (Catherine) One of the major contributors to the Great Depression was buying on Margin. Buying on margin was something where whether you had the money or not, you could buy stocks and not have to pay for it until later. Some people spent all of their money and went into major debt. When people couldn't pay their money, they looked to the banks for loans. When people couldn't get that paid off, they were in more debt than ever.

2. (Hannah) Another thing that helped to cause the great depression was when the men who were fighting in WW1 came home and could not get a job. They couldn't get jobs because they were not skilled in anything but fighting. A lot of people fought in the war and with everything else going on in America lots of people were jobless and poor.

3. (Liza) One of the main causes of the great depression was the stock market.The stock market was booming at first, during the 20s, because many people bought stock which made it boom. But when the stock market started going down because of all the people buying stocks on a margin. When people saw the stock market coming down, people got scared and all tried to sell their stocks at one point. With all the people selling at once, it made the stock market crash completely. Making the great depression just little away.

Causes of the Great Depression

hannah_saad — 2014-02-24 21:49:56 UTC

Section 3

catherinesherling1 — 2014-02-25 14:17:26 UTC

Section 3

hannah_saad — 2014-02-25 14:19:28 UTC

Section 3

hannah_saad — 2014-02-25 14:20:54 UTC

Section 3

catherinesherling1 — 2014-02-25 14:21:31 UTC

Catherine - Picture #1

catherinesherling1 — 2014-02-25 14:23:58 UTC

This shows the devastation of the dust bowl in the 1930s. The Dust Bowl was a period of devastation where there was an extreme drought in the western hemisphere. Thousands of farms were destroyed, and houses were buried in dust and debrie.

Political Cartoon

hannah_saad — 2014-02-25 14:27:54 UTC

This political cartoon represents the dust bowl which was a major drought that lasted nearly a decade. A lot of farmers went into debt because they couldn't sell any crops and that is what the farm bill on dying plant represents.

Catherine - Social

catherinesherling1 — 2014-02-25 14:30:20 UTC

In the Dust Bowl, people were petrified that they would be buried in dust in their sleep. People put cloths on their face to keep from breathing in the dust during daytime. People were desperate for help. When President Roosevelt suggested they plant trees and bushes in front of their houses and their farms, they wouldn't grow. When the intense drought was finally over, people rejoiced and joined neighbors in regrowing farms. There were many new actors and actresses that were in movies.

Catherine - Fun Fact

catherinesherling1 — 2014-02-25 14:39:29 UTC

There were hundreds of actors that were had their big break in the great Depression. Shirly Temple was in introduced in 1935.

Liza Political

liza_sharpley — 2014-02-25 14:41:59 UTC

Politicly, black Americans were not hired for jobs that were greatly needed. Eleanor Roosevelt helped this cause by making african americans have more jobs which made less of a war. The president started making fireside chats which were things where families would listen to the radio and listen to President F.D.R speak and try to calm people down about situations. The dust bowl happened which was a huge storm that hit the great plains making farmers farms to get ruined, and many farmers moved to California to get jobs. The political change is massive in the Great Depression.

Liza Fun fact

liza_sharpley — 2014-02-25 21:54:00 UTC

A major dust storm hit the great plains making the plains a dust bowl.

Hannah Economical

hannah_saad — 2014-02-25 23:36:21 UTC

Some of the economical things that happened in this section is when the dust bowl hit the plains and farmers couldn't grow anything so they went into debt because they couldn't pay off their farms and many people had to close down their farms because they couldn't afford to keep them open. Also people were really really poor so people would save up pennies so that they could go to the movies for 25 cents for a ticket. This example shows just how poor people were.

Hannah Picture #2

hannah_saad — 2014-02-26 00:51:52 UTC

This is a picture of what a farm property might look like when it had gone through the dust bowl. You can see from the picture that everything is totally ruined and that the farmers couldn't make any money because they didn't have anything to sell.

Hannah Picture #3

hannah_saad — 2014-02-26 00:54:49 UTC

During the great depression a famous novel called The Grapes of Wrath was written this is a picture of the cover. It was written by John Steinbeck.

Cause and Effects

hannah_saad — 2014-02-27 22:06:35 UTC

1. Cause: The US was in need of the new deal because a lot of people were unemployed and homeless.

Effect: To fix this a few of the programs that helped with this problem were the CCC and the TVA. These organizations provided jobs for many people.

2. Cause: Another reason that the new deal was important was because of no one having confidence in the banks.

Effect: The deal organized a bank holiday where all of the banks would close so that the government could make sure that they could go back to business and to restore confidence in the banks.

3. Cause: Also we needed the new deal was because the farmers were and dept and they couldn't pay off their farms so they had to shut down.

Effect: The new deal put together a program called the FCA which helped farmers with their finances so they could afford to keep the farms open.

4. Cause: We needed the new deal because we needed to eliminate unfair competition between companies.

Effect: The new deal had a program called the NIRA which totally eliminated any unfair competition between competitions.