Essential Questions and Vocabulary - Unit #8 – THE GREAT DEPRESSION OF 1930s

Essential Questions from Lesson #1 – THE CRASH

1. Why were so many people freely irresponsible with Stock Market investments?
2. Why did Stock Market prices keep rising, then drop sharply?
3. Why is a Bull Market good for investors?
4. Why can a long Bull Market become a problem?

VOCAB 8:1
Herbert Hoover (232)
Stock Market
Bull Market (233)
Speculation EQ = 2pts each question = 48 pts. (I’m
Buying on margin going to make it out of 50 and give 2
Margin call freebies)
The Great Crash
Black Tuesday (234) V = 5pts each list = 35 pts.
A bank run

Essential Questions from Lesson #2 – ROOTS OF THE DEPRESSION

5. What describes the Great Depression?
6. The stock market crash caused a loss of investments. How did this lead to the Great Depression?

VOCAB 8:2
Buying on Installment Plan (235)
Hawley-Smoot Tariff (236)
Federal Reserve Board
Unemployment (From notes)

Essential Questions from Lesson #3 – THE DEPRESSION WORSENS

7. What did the formation of Hoovervilles say about America at that time?
8. How did Dust Bowl form, and what was the effect?

VOCAB 8:3
Soup kitchens (237)
Bread lines
Shantytowns
Hoovervilles
Hoboes
Dust Bowl (238)
Okies

Essential Questions from Lesson #4 – ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

9. How did people entertain themselves in the 1930s?
10. Why were Soap Operas likely very popular?

VOCAB 8:4
Marx Brothers (238)
Wizard of Oz (239)
Gone with the Wind
Jack Benny – on the radio
Adventures of Green Hornet
Soap Operas (on the radio)
Time and Life
Margaret Bourke-White
Essential Questions from the movie CINDERELLA MAN
11. What happened that Jim Braddock was so poor and desperate?
12. Describe New York during the Depression.

13. The Braddock’s had their electricity shut off. Why? Why would the shutting the electricity off not
give them a break?
14. What did Jim resort to in order to pay the bills?

15. What happened with the Joe Lewis fight?

16. Why was Jim Braddock’s wife so worried about him getting back into fighting?

Essential Questions from Lesson #5 – HOOVER’S REACTION TO THE DEPRESSION

17. What did Hoover do so wrong that pushed USA deeper into the Great Depression?
18. What did FDR try to do to get USA out of the Great Depression?

VOCAB 8:5
Herbert Hoover (240)
Public works (241)
Relief (from government)
Hunger marchers (242)
foreclosed
Bonus marchers
Bonus army

Essential Questions from Lesson #6 – The Rise of FDR

19. Why did FDR win so big?
20. What are three issues FDR faced as the new President?

VOCAB 8:6
Polio (in relation to FDR) (248)
Gold Standard (250)
Bank holiday
Ideology
Hundred Days

Essential Questions from Lesson #7 – FDR’s New Deal

21. What did it seem FDR was providing for Americans that had not in the past?
22. What was his way of providing hope?

VOCAB 8:7
Fireside chats (251)
Glass-Steagall Banking Act
Securities Act
Securities and Exch. Commission (SEC)
FDIC
Home Owners’ Loan Corp. (HOL)
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
Civil Conservation Corps (CCC)(253)
Shelter Belt
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Civil Works Administration (CWA)

Essential Questions from the movie THE STORY OF US: BUST

23. Give two examples of what life is like in the 1930s
24. Describe this movie’s version of how the Stock Market crashed