Final Exam scores are up on Engrade. Anyone wishing to earn extra credit should compete one of the following assignment (A DBQ on the Great Depression and the New Deal):
http://www.regentsprep.org/Regents/ushisgov/essays/dbq/newdeal/index.htm
You will be awarded 10-15 points for an essay of 300 words that incorporates outside information and data from a minimum of 4 documents. You also need to answer the short answers.
Special thanks to Loretta for finding the picture of the infamous Mexico spill...I will miss all of you (and your stains) very much!
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1. Describe the conditions illustrated by this picture of Kansas in 1941.
This picture is one for the many abounded homes in the United States during the great depression. Many people had to leave there homes, because they couldn’t afford there mortgages.
2. According to the New York Times, what happened to the value of the American stock market in October 1929? According to the New York Times, on October 30th, 1929 the stock market collapsed. It collapsed by 16,410. Many banks also not want to keep providing aid for the stock market. Many Americans lost all there life saving in the stock market.
3. Based on the chart above, what effect did the stock market crash of 1929 have on the rate of unemployment the United States? The chart shows that because of the stock market crash of 1929, about 2million people were unemployed. The stock market crash made unemployment rate grow a 1 million a year.
4. According to Roosevelt, what problems did the United States face in 1933?
According to Roosevelt, united states have had many economic problems during 1933. One problem was the raise of taxes and no one was able to pay. The government couldn’t get the unemployment rate to stop raising let alone decrease.
4b. according to Roosevelt the solution was putting people back to work. The government would be directly employing them or the government leading out money to big industry employers for them to restart their business.
5a. why did President Herbert Hoover follow a trickle-down theory in order to combat the Great Depression? President Herbert Hoover followed a trickle -down theory in order to combat the great depression because he believe if the government protected the big corporations, and kept on investing in to them. These big corps. Will expand the economy and trickle -down to the workers and consumers.
5b. why did President Franklin Roosevelt follow a theory of pump-priming to combat the Great Depression? President Roosevelt followed the pumping- priming to combat the great depression because President Herbert Hoover‘s trickledown theory didn’t work well at all. The only thing it did was sink us deeper into the depression. The government incressed government programs and business activity would go up as well. This will help people in all classes because it would higher business activty.
5. What effect did America’s involvement in World War Two have on the economy? America’s Involvement in world war two has made the government in a big deal of debit. When the government is not doing so well, the economy isn’t doing to up hold. Americas were hurting form the war, and didn’t know how to stop.
i dont know which essay to do!
plesae let me know which one to do so i can finsh up this asisignment
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