Objective: Identify the economic causes of the great depression
Daily Question: What are some ways you or your family tries to save money?
Agenda
Daily Question
Current Event
10 minutes of Study and to gather the following papers and place them in the following order and staple together:
1920 Packet
1920's Notes from Guided Lecture
1920's Advertising
Speakeasies Worksheet -I know it is only 3/4 done.
1920's Slang
1920's Exam- You may write on the exam- Turn into the plastic bin
When you are done with the exam QUIETLY grab a US History Blue textbook from the cupboard. Read Section 1 from Chapter 14 pages 464- 471. Answer question 1 on page 471 on a separate sheet of white lined paper. This is DUE AT THE END OF CLASS!
For each term or name on page 471 write a one or two sentence defining what the term is and then two sentences about the significance of that term or person during the Great Depression
Example:
Term: Price Support
Definition: The maintenance of a price of a product at a certain level through government intervention.
Significance: When farmers could not pay their mortgages Congress tried to help them buy setting Price Support on key products like corn, wheat , cotton and tabacco. The government guaranteed they would buy surplus amount of those products at a higher price and sell them to other countries. This piece of legislation to help the farmers was called the McNary- Haugen Bill.
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