Hoover, FDR and the Depression

• History
• Secondary Education
• Age 11

Hoover, FDR and the Depression

USA enters WW1

Women given the right to vote under the 19th amendment

The Wall Street Crash triggers the Great Depression

Herbert Hoover is elected the president of the USA

FDR wins the elections presidential elections for the first time and the New Deal starts

Roosevelt attempts to break the Supreme Court's obstruction through the Court Packing  Bill

What changes were experienced in the 1920s in USA?

What did Hoover do to address the problems of the Great Depression?

Primary Sources

• Original materials that provide direct evidence or firsthand accounts of an event, topic, or phenomenon. 
• They are created at the time of the event or by someone with direct experience

Secondary Sources

• A document or work produced long after an event that analyses, interprets, or describes information from primary sources. 
• they are second-hand accounts  based on existing information

Provide an example of a primary source produced during the depression in USA

Provide an example of a secondary source based on the depression in USA

Photo of a 'Hooverville' in USA 1932

What is a Hooverville?

Is this a secondary or primary source?

Is the source a primary or secondary source? Explain why

Franklin D. Roosevelt's inaugural address.
March 4, 1933

"Restoration calls, however, not for changes in ethics alone. This nation asks for action, and action now. Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganise the use of our natural resources".

Identify some key New Deal measures

What is the message and purpose of Roosevelt's speech?

"Restoration calls, however, not for changes in ethics alone. This nation asks for action, and action now"

New Deal Programs

• The New Deal resulted in the establishment of many 'alphabet agencies' to deal with the Great Depression.

What were the main aims of the New Deal?

Identify some alphabet agencies established through the New Deal

Cartoon appearing in a US newspaper in 1937

What is the context of the cartoon?

Identify key changes experienced in th USA as a result of the New Deal.