The New Deal
What is the definition of The New Deal?
A set of programs adopted during FDR’s administration to combat the Great Depression.
Stock Market Crash
Tuesday, Oct. 29, 1929 the stock market crashed. It is known as Black Tuesday.
When?
Roughly between 1910 to 1970
what are the 2 causes of the Harlem Renaissance?
The Great Migration
The rise of the black middle class, due to better education and jobs
what an investor buys in the company
What is Goal Number 3
Reform:
Programs that sought to stop another depression from happening again
Banking was a major target
What is the Great Depression?
the worst economic crisis in the U.S. history, marked by a plummeting economy and skyrocketing unemployment and lasting through the 1930s.
So what?
This is a turning point in history, it transform urban America.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The Harlem Renaissance was a time in the 1920s when African American art, literature, and music flourished.
What is invest?
to give your money to a business in the hopes of making a profit.
What is goal number 2?
Recovery:
Programs that help the country recover and grow
What is a corporation?
a big business owned by many invest
Why
Sharecropping, Jim Crow, lynching, injustice, the KKK, and economic opportunity
What is Goal Number 1
Relief:
Programs that sought to provide Americans with immediate assistance to help them with the basic necessities of life like food, shelter, and jobs.
What is the definition of Stock Market?
a system for buying and selling stocks.
Who
6.5 millions AAs
What are the 3 common themes?
Strong sense of racial pride
Appreciation of folk roots and culture
Desire for social equality
What are the 3 Hardships?
Unemployment - In 1929 some 1.5 million Americans were unemployed, by 1933 it rose to about 15 million. For those who kept their jobs, wages fell dramatically.
Homelessness
Hunger
What
The mass movement of AAs from the south to the north