1930s

The New Deal

100

Benefits for the elderly: takes money out of paychecks to be used later for retirement after age 65

Unemployment benefits: if you lose your job, the government will give you some money to survive for a short period of time

Welfare: the poor with children can get welfare payments to survive

Money for people with disabilities

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT

200

• Programs like the CCC, WPA, and PWA provided jobs and relief to the unemployed
• Built roads, schools, national parks

PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMS

300

Wanted to decrease farm surpluses by paying farmers not to grow certain crops so prices would go up

 AAA

400

Insures deposits and makes people more confident in US banks and financial institutions

Originally insured $5000 in deposits, but today it is $250,000

FDIC

500

Regulates stock market and financial institutions and limits speculation on margin (credit)

Made people more confident with investing and limited risk

THE SEC

Historical Events

100

• 1930s Great Plains farmers faced huge dust storms caused by overproduction and a major drought
• “Oakies”- Many moved from Oklahoma to California to escape

THE DUST BOWL

200

• FDR gave radio speeches letting people know that times would get better which gave people hope

FDR’S “FIRESIDE” CHATS

300

• During the Great Depression World War I veterans asked for their bonus early
• Marched to Washington DC to protest and camp out
• Hoover ordered the removal of the veterans
• The veterans camps were burned down and the public blamed Hoover

THE BONUS ARMY

400

• In the late 1800s, mechanization in the Great Plains led to an increase in food production, but led to overproduction in the 1920s

MECHANIZATION OF FARMS

500

• The Supreme Court declared some and only some small programs in the New Deal unconstitutional because the programs overextended the power of the government
• So, FDR tried to increase the size of the court from 9 to 15 to make it more sympathetic to his New Deal programs
• Congress killed it because it violated "checks and balances"

FDR'S COURT PACKING PLAN

People

100

• Many blamed him for not doing enough during the depression, because he didn’t provide direct relief, and because of the Bonus Army disaster
• Hooverville’s – the Great Depression homeless areas

PRESIDENT HERBERT HOOVER

200

President from 1933-1945

Created the New Deal

Baller

FDR aka 

Franklin D. Roosevelt

32nd U.S. President

300

 Wins four gold medals during the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Jesse Owens

400

Wife of FDR 

changed the first lady roll

promoted Youth engagement and women's rights

Eleanor Roosevelt

500

• On October 17, 1931, Chicago gangster ___________ was convicted of income tax evasion and later sentenced to 11 years in federal prison.

Al Capone

Random 30s Facts

100

John Steinbeck wrote a book called what?

The Grapes of Wrath

200

Female Pilot that went missing 

Amelia Earhart

300

• A famous Dam named after a President is completed 2 years ahead of schedule on March 1, 1936.

Hoover Dam

400

Famous Comic superhero debuts in Action Comics #1 in June 1938.

Superman

500

• This German airship is destroyed while attempting to land at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station on May 6, 1937.

Hindenburg

1920s US History

100

WOMEN SUFFRAGE

THE RIGHT TO VOTE

200

PROHIBITION OF ALCOHOL (1919-1933)

Banned alcohol

300

A young rebellious woman, who drank and smoke, and had short hair, who refused to follow societies expectations and rejected tradition

Flapper

400

Presidents in the 1920s

 PRESIDENT HARDING AND PRESIDENT COOLIDGE

500

What is Consumer Culture

• Consumer Culture
• Automobiles, washing machines, stoves, irons, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, and radios.