Read and outline the copied pages from "By the People": pages 657-659, 664 - 669
Learn the following key terms (and underline them in your outline)
Washington Conference Five Powers Treaty Andrew Mellon Warren Harding Calvin Coolidge Dawes Plan Kellogg-Briand Pact Herbert Hoover Al Smith speculation stock New York Stock Exchange buying on the margin Black Tuesday Reconstruction Finance Corporation Smoot-Hawley Tariff Hoovervilles
"Bonus Army" Franklin Delano Roosevelt New Deal fireside chats Eleanor Roosevelt Glass-Steagall Act Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Brain Trust First 100 Days Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Federal Emergency Relief Act Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) National Industrial Recovery Act Public Works Administration (PWA) National Recovery Administration (NRA)
3. Answer the following reading questions:
What issues helped decide the election of 1928?
What caused the stock market crash of 1929?
Evaluate Hoover's economic policies. Were they effective?
How did FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) propose to end the depression?