Class Outline for the Great Depression Lecture

I. Election of 1928

a. Herbert Hoover—Republicans

b. Alfred E. Smith—Democrats

II. The Great Crash

a. Inauguration

b. Herbert Hoover—the Great Engineer

c. The distorted economy

d. The Stock Market crash

i. October 24, 1929—“Black Thursday”

III. The Great Depression

a. Causes

i. Monetarists

b. Human Toll of the Depression

c. Hoover’s Response

i. Bonus Marchers

d. 1932 election

FDR and the New Deal

I. Three goals of FDR in regard to the Depression

II. Roosevelt and His Circle

a. The Brain Trust

i. Eleanor Roosevelt

ii. Roosevelt’s Cabinet

III. The New Deal

a. The Hundred Days

i. Banking Holiday

ii. Emergency banking Act

iii. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

iv. Home Owners Loan Corporation

v. Civilian Conservation Corps

vi. Federal Emergency Relief Act

vii. Agricultural Adjustment Act

1. Agricultural Adjustment Administration

viii. National Industrial Recovery Act

1. Public Works Administration

2. National Recovery Administration

ix. Tennessee Valley Authority

b. Problems and Controversies of the New Deal

i. NRA

ii. AAA

iii. Dust Bowl

iv. Huey Long

IV. The Second New Deal

a. 1935 State of the Union Address

b. Emergency Relief Appropriation Act

c. Works Progress Administration

d. Social Security Act of 1935

V. Legacy of FDR