Great Depression Outline

Great Depression Outline

I Intro (Leave Blank for now)

II Causes (The causes of the great depression were Over-speculation,Government policy, Unstable economy)

A overspeculation (Define, how important) Over speculation is buying stock that is risky with borrowed money

B Govt Policy, policy lead to the economy crashing because they didn't put regulations one the stock market.

C Unstable Econ, lead to the economy failing because the unbalanced economy had no stable base to fall back upon. Production farexceeded demand; wealth was unevenly distributed; the boom in stock market prices was based mainly on borrowed money, not real value.

1 uneven prosperity, lead the economy failing because the wealth was with all of the business owners and the poor had very little money, so the wealth was not being distribution evenly.

2 overproduction, the farmers were producing to much food and there was not enough people with money to buy so the farmers became poor.

3 worker issues / farm issues, the farmers were producing to much goods, buying land and tractors on loan so when they where not making enough money they couldn't pay the loans so they lost their land.

III Effects

A Poverty is general scarcity or dearth, or the state of one who lacks a certain amount of material possessions or money. because people had little money to buy goods so the company wouldn't do well.

B Society is the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community. Society was changing and people wanted new and better thing sand when they had it they didn't need to buy a newer one, so business would fail after a boom

C World a common name for the whole of human civilization, specifically human experience, history, or the human condition in general, worldwide , i.e. anywhere on Earth or pertaining to anywhere on earth. The world help contribute to the economy failing because during the war America was the top producer of food, but when the war ended other countries were able to farm again, so America didn't have to produce a many crops so farmers went out of business

IV Solutions

A Hoover was the president at the start of the Great depression. hoover didn't do enough to help stimulate the economy.

1 Volunteerism, the act of volunteering on a regular bases. helped open food kitchens so homeless people could eat and the red cross.

2 Public Works, built dams, roads, schools, and reservoirs funded by the government and carried out buy the community

3 Hawley Smoot a tariff that raise tariff prices to the highest level in 100 years

4 RFC, stand for reconstruction finance corporation, their job was to make loans so that people could get back on their to normal.

B Roosevelt was the president during the Great Depression, tried to make more government programs to help people in need

1 new deal, was programs funded by the government to help out the us citizens

a alphabet soup, the relief programs created by the new deal

            SEC- security and stock administration, government commission created by congress to regulate the securities markets and protect investors

            AAA- Agricultural Adjustment Agency, reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock

           FDIC- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, back up your bank account for up too a certain amount

            NRA- National Recovery Association, o eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry, labor and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices

b Criticism? the criticism of the new deal is the left winged were saying he wasn't doing enough to help the economy and the right winged were saying he was doing to much

2 2nd new deal

a

b

c

V Criticicism

B Political Criticism (ex. Came from both the ____________ and ______________)

A Conservatives

B Liberals (ex: criticised the new deal also. They....)

Ex

ex

VI Effectiveness

A Changes in US

B Unions

C Culture

VII Conclusion

Empire State Building

The Empire State Building 

The Empire State Building is a 103 story skyscraper located in Manhattan, New York City. the Empire state building is 1,250 feet tall, with the antenna it is 1,454 feet tall.The building was designed from the top down. Excavation of the sight began on January 22 1930 and construction on the building itself started on March 17 Saint Patrick's Day, this was during the time of the Great Depression. The building was named after New York's nickname the Empire State. The Empire State Building was the tallest building in the world from 1931 to 1970. The building was designed by William F. Lamb from the architectural firm Shreve, Lamb and Harmon. The project involved 3,400 workers, mostly immigrants from Europe, along with hundreds of Mohawk iron workers, many from the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal. According to official accounts, five workers died during the construction. The construction was planed to take 18 months but instead only took 15 months.

The building was officially opened on May 1, 1935 in dramatic fashion, when The United States president Herbert Hoover turned on the building's lights with a push of a button from Washington D.C. Coincidentally the first use of the tower lights atop the Empire State Building, the following year, the purpose was for  signaling the victory of Franklin D. Roosevelt over Hoover in the presidential election of November 1932. The building's opening coincided with the Great Depression in the United States, and as a result much of its office space was initially unrented. The building's vacancy was exacerbated by its poor location on 34th Street, which placed it relatively far from public transportation, as Grand Central Terminal and Penn Station are several blocks away. The lack of renters led New Yorkers to come up with the nickname the Empty State Building.

 In 1945 a plane crashed in to the Empire State Building, the new's report said, " At 9:40 am on Saturday, July 28, 1945, a B-25 Mitchell bomber, piloted in thick fog by Lieutenant Colonel William Franklin Smith, Jr. crashed into the north side of the Empire State Building, between the 79th and 80th floors, where the offices of the National Catholic Welfare Council were located." Over the  years more than thirty people have attempted suicide, most successfully. the first suicide occurred even before its completion, by a worker who had been laid off. The fence around the terrace was put up in 1947 after five people tried to jump during a three week span.

On February 24, 1997, a gunman shot seven people on the observation deck, killing one, then fatally wounded himself. On August 24, 2012 at about 9 am EDT, on the sidewalk at the Fifth Avenue side of the building, a gunman shot and killed a former co-worker from a workplace that had laid him off in 2011. When two police officers confronted the gunman, 58-year-old Jeffrey T. Johnson, he aimed his firearm at them. They responded by firing 16 shots at Johnson, killing him but also wounding nine bystanders, most of whom were hit by fragments, although three took direct hits from stray bullets.

Causes of World War 1

The four causes of World War 1 are Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, and Nationalism. Militarism is the belief or desire of a government or people that a country should maintain a strong military capability and be prepared to use it aggressively to defend or promote national interests. Alliances is a pact, coalition or friendship between two or more parties. Imperialism is an unequal human and territorial relationship, usually in the form of a empire, based on ideas of superiority and practices of dominance and involving the extension of authority and control of one state or people over another. Nationalism is a belief, creed or political ideology that individual identifying with or becoming attached to ones nation. Alliances is a pact, coalition or friendship between two or more parties.

Militarism helped start the war because countries needed more land for their armies and they thought the fight would be over fast. Alliances helped start the war because one country would get in a war and then have another back them up, then the opposing side would also do that, then more and more counties join then the war gets bigger. Imperialism helped start the war because imperialistic countries wanted more land and exclusive trading rights with another country. Nationalism helped start the war because they thought the war would be over in a couple of months.

Unrestricted submarine warfare is the first,Unrestricted submarine warfare is a type of naval warfare in which submarine sink vessels such as freighters and tankers without warning, as opposed to attacks per prize rules, Unrestricted submarine warfare started in 1915. The second was the Lusitania, the Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk by a German u-boat on May 7 1915, the death toll was 1198. The third is Sussex Pledge, the Sussex pledge was a pledge in World War I by Germany to the United States prior to the latter's entry into the war, the date it was May 4 1916. The Fourth is the Zimmerman Note, the Zimmerman Note is was a 1917 diplomatic proposal from the German Empire for Mexico to join the Central Powers, in the event of the United States entering World War I on the side of the Entente Powers, the note was intercepted on January 16 1917.

Great Migration

The Great Migration

The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African American left the Southern states and went to the to the Northeast, Midwest, and West. It started in 1910 and lasted until the 1960's. Between 1910 and 1930 was the first Great Migration in which 1.6 million African Americans immigrated. After a lull during the Great Depression a second Great Migration in which 5 million or more people moved from the South, many of them moved to Western cities. In 1910 and 1970 African Americans moved from 14 states in the South, the most of them moved from Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. Some African Americans moved to Canada in order to remain safe from anti-abolitionists.
 
More townspeople with urban skills moved during the second Great Migration. By the end of the second Great Migration, African Americans had become an urbanized population. More than 80 percent of African Americans lived in cities, a majority of 53 percent remained in the South, while 40 percent lived in the North, and 7 percent lived in the West. Black migration picked up from the start of the new century, with 204,000 leaving in the first decade. The pace accelerated with the outbreak of World War 1 and continued through the 1920s. By 1930, there were 1.3 million former southerners living in other regions.

African Americans were recruited for industrial jobs, such as positions with the expansion of the Pennsylvania Railroad. African Americans moves as individuals or small family groups. There was no government assistance but often but often Northern industries would recruit people.