Class Outline for the Great Depression Lecture
Transcript of Class Outline for the Great Depression Lecture
Class Outline for the Great Depression Lecture
I. Election of 1928
a. Herbert Hoover—Republicans
b. Alfred E. Smith—Democrats
II. The Great Crash
a. Inauguration
b. Herbert Hoover—the Great Engineer
c. The distorted economy
d. The Stock Market crash
i. October 24, 1929—“Black Thursday”
III. The Great Depression
a. Causes
i. Monetarists
b. Human Toll of the Depression
c. Hoover’s Response
i. Bonus Marchers
d. 1932 election
FDR and the New Deal
I. Three goals of FDR in regard to the Depression
II. Roosevelt and His Circle
a. The Brain Trust
i. Eleanor Roosevelt
ii. Roosevelt’s Cabinet
III. The New Deal
a. The Hundred Days
i. Banking Holiday
ii. Emergency banking Act
iii. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
iv. Home Owners Loan Corporation
v. Civilian Conservation Corps
vi. Federal Emergency Relief Act
vii. Agricultural Adjustment Act
1. Agricultural Adjustment Administration
viii. National Industrial Recovery Act
1. Public Works Administration
2. National Recovery Administration
ix. Tennessee Valley Authority
b. Problems and Controversies of the New Deal
i. NRA
ii. AAA
iii. Dust Bowl
iv. Huey Long
IV. The Second New Deal
a. 1935 State of the Union Address
b. Emergency Relief Appropriation Act
c. Works Progress Administration
d. Social Security Act of 1935
V. Legacy of FDR