Main Themes 1. How weaknesses underlying the apparent prosperity of the 1920s led to the Great Depression, and how the stock market crash touched it off. 2. That neither the efforts of local and private relief agencies nor the early volunteerism of Herbert Hoover was able to halt the spiral of rising unemployment and declining production. 3. How the economic pressures of the Depression affected the American people, especially minorities. 4. How the misery of those affected by the Depression swept Franklin Delano Roosevelt into the presidency.
| Learning Objectives A thorough study of Chapter Twenty-Five should enable the student to understand: |
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The relationship between the stock market crash and the subsequent Great Depression. |
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The reasons that the Great Depression started and lasted so long. |
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The effects of the Depression on business and industry. |
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The problems of unemployment and the inadequacy of relief. |
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The particular problems of farmers in the Dust Bowl. |
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The impact of the Depression on minorities. |
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The impact of the Depression on working women and the American family. |
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The reflection of the economic crisis in American culture. |
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President Herbert Hoover's policies for fighting the Depression. |