Students,
The following questions should be answered by Thursday, April 24, 2014. Students, essay questions should be
answered in your own words by summarizing, paraphrasing, and/or analyzing
content information. You should use the textbook or internet as a resource but not to copy and
paste or write in someone else words. Content information should be accurate
and based on informational readings and text.Students are to select one (1)
question to answer in two detailed paragraphs and state a thesis sentence based
on your argument to be explained (Thesis statement should be in the 1st
paragraph). Grammatical errors should be reviewed and corrected before
submitting
your essays questions. The essay is worth 80 points total.
Extension
Assignment- Students should comment on at least two of their classmates’ essays
by Monday, April 28, 2014, 12:00a.m. Your comments should be at least 2-3
sentences in length. The comment should be a critical evaluation of the essay and
explain whether you agree with the argument or disagree. This assignment will
allow students to become peer supporters in this AP US History class and help
critic the writings of their classmates. This assignment is worth 20 points (10
points per comment). Your overall grade will come from Mrs.
Ladd.
Select one of the following questions:
1. Compare and contrast Herbert Hoover's economic policies with those of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
2. Analyze the role of TWO of the following in explaining the causes of the Great Depression.
A. Farming Problems
B. Income Distribution
C. World Trade and Finance
D. Government Policy
3. Select TWO New Deal Agencies or commissions and assess how well each satisfied the three Rs of relief, recovery, and reform.
2. Analyze the role of TWO of the following in explaining the causes of the Great Depression:
ReplyDeleteFarm Problems
Income Distribution
World Trade and Finance
The roots of the depression on the farms began when low commodity prices led many farmers to borrow money to fill the voids. With the Depression, bankers became fearful of repayment. The people began to demand that their loans be repaid, but many farmers could not repay back to the banks due to their crops being worth so little. As cities trimmed back meat purchase prices. The markets for slaughtered pigs and cattle dropped to the point where a farmer got less money for livestock than it cost to ship the livestock to the market.
Poor distribution of income meant there was a big gap between the rich and poor. This was due to many people having to rely on credit during those times.When people spent on a credit based system the factories weren't getting payed. When the companies lost money jobs were being lost. This meant that the rich got most of the money and the money won't flow that well in the economy due to that small percentage owning majority of the money.
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DeleteAriel your blog was well detailed and informational. Great Job!
DeleteAnalyze the role of TWO of the following in explaining the causes of the Great Depression.
ReplyDeleteA. Farming Problems: Many American farmers were already having a hard time before the Depression, mostly because they were producing too much and farm product prices were too low. Things were so bad in some areas that farmers burned corn for fuel rather than sell it. Then one of the worst droughts in recorded history hit the Great Plains. The Midwest became known as the "Dust Bowl." Dry winds picked up tons of topsoil and blew it across the prairies, creating huge, suffocating clouds of dirt that buried towns and turned farms into abandoned deserts.
Income Distribution:Many small banks, particularly in rural areas, had overextended credit to farmers who, for the most part, had not shared in the prosperity of the 1920s and often could not repay the loans. Big banks, meanwhile, had foolishly made huge loans to foreign countries. Why? So the foreign countries could repay their earlier debts from World War I. When times got tough and the U.S. banks stopped lending, European nations simply defaulted on their outstanding loans. The result of all this was that many banks went bankrupt. Others were forced out of business when depositors panicked and withdrew their money. The closings and panics almost completely shut down the country's banking system.
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DeleteI like how your information was formatted and contained a lot of analysis.
DeleteElisha Davis
Compare and contrast Herbert Hoover's economic policies with those of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
ReplyDeleteHerbert Hoover delayed taking action to help and revive the economy allowing the Great Depression to become the greatest economic crisis in the history of the U.S. Roosevelt took immediate action by enforcing the New Deal and even though it didn't solve the Depression it put people back to work and it lead the country out of the Depression.
Hoover advise businesses not to cut wages, unions not to strike and private charities to increase their efforts for the needy and jobless. Until the summer of 1930, he dithers to ask Congress for legislative action on the economy, fearing that government assistance would destroy their self-reliance. In June of 1930, President Hoover passed a schedule of tariff rates that was the highest in history. Its political proposes was to gratify U.S. business leaders who thought a higher tariff would protect their markets from foreign competition, but it backfired because European countries enacted higher tariffs of their own against U.S. goods. The effect was to reduce trade for all nations, meaning that both the national and international economies sank further into depression. Franklin Roosevelt on the other hand took a different approach.
During the early years of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency, he organized his new deal programs. The three R’s: relief for people of our work, recovery for business and the economy as a whole, and reform of American economic institutions. The institutions set up by FDR were much better in organization and in resolving important issues such as bank problems and unemployment.
Great Job on contrasting both Hoover and Roosevelt but you didn't compare them both. The information was great and detailed.
Delete1. Compare and contrast Herbert Hoover's economic policies with those of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
ReplyDeleteDespite being at the helm of government when the stock market crashed and the Great Depression set in, Herbert Hoover was not the do-nothing president his detractors claimed. In fact, he entered the presidency with an array of programs and reforms designed to address the most pressing issues of the day. His fault lay mainly in his approach. While he went out of his way to encourage businesses and organizations to refine their operations for the betterment of all, he refused to challenge Congress or assert forceful presidential leadership. Further, his firm belief in American individualism blinded him to the necessity for governmental intervention in even the most dire of circumstances.
Roosevelt passed a flurry of economic legislation during the first hundred days of his administration as part of his New Deal domestic program. Measures like the Conservation Corps (CCC), Works Progress Administration (WPA) and Tennessee Valley Authority brought hundreds of thousands of unemployed men to work on rural local projects and earn a paycheck again. Although these early economic reforms did little to immediately solve the problem of massive unemployment.
Analyze the role of TWO of the following in explaining the causes of the Great Depression.
ReplyDeleteFarming failure was a big cause for the Great Depression. Farmers were producing too much and product prices were too low. Farmers had to borrow money to fill the vacancy.The people began to demand that their loans be repaid, but many farmers could not repay back to the banks due to their crops being worth so little. The Midwest became known as the "Dust Bowl." Dry winds picked up tons of topsoil and blew it across the prairies smothering clouds of dirt buried towns and turned farms into abandoned deserts.
Bank failure was a major cause to the Great Depression as well. People were investing into the stock market that the stock market crashed. Banks went bankrupt. People start buying things on credit which they could not afford to pay the banks back. Banks and factories were shut down nobody had jobs.
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DeleteThis was a great topic.
DeleteElisha Davis
. Analyze the role of TWO of the following in explaining the causes of the Great Depression.
ReplyDeleteA. Farming Problems
B. Income Distribution
C. World Trade and Finance
D. Government Policy
Farming problems was huge in the great depression. With the economy losing money, it was hard for farmers to make money and if they couldn't make money then they couldn't produce or create products to put into the economy. The more and more the economy lost wealth, the harder it was to make products so that was one involvement of The Great Depression.
Income distribution was also another involvement in The Great Depression. One of a outraged income event was the stock market crash. That is what led to The great depression. See, back before it happened people would hold their money in banks and nothing like Social Security or welfare was made then so it was hard for people to manage while they were unemployed. When the stock market crash happened, people collected their money from banks and that led to economy wealth dropping. That event was a major involvement of the Great Depression