Monday, March 25, 2013

How TND Affected Peoples of Color pt1

Why did Pedro Gonzalez become a Mexican-American hero?

  • Gonzalez tried to stop the descrimination of mexicans by being a DJ in his radio station


Why was Frances Perkins a hero for women?
  • The first women to be a a cabinent member as a secretary of labor


What was the "Black Cabinet" and who was the leader?
  • The Black Cabinent is a group of African-American advisers that supported Roosevelt on racial issues and the leader is Mary Mc Leod Bethune.


Tuesday, March 19, 2013

The Great Depression-President Hoover's Handling of the crisis

Herbert Hoover, a Rebublican president of the begining o the Great Depression,was ineffective on his response because many people where angry with president Hoover and expressed it by  they burned their crops and pour milk on the highways and would block shipmen to the stores.Hoovers principals are that he refused to the government give things to people he did not support helping the community. The person who made up the bonus army are the veterans from WWI it affected president Hoover because many veterans marched to Washington D.C

The Great Depression

94% of Americans made how much in one year?
-   94% Americans made under $5,000

Why is wall street important to American buisness?
-Its important because the New York companies sell in the New York Stock Exchange.

If the stock market cash DID NOT cause the Great Depression,what did?
  • Tariffs and war debt policies that cut down the foregign market for American goods.
  • A crisis in the farm sector
  • The availibility of easy credit
  • An unequal distribution of income
What of what you read is similar to what is happening in the Great Depression?

what I read is similiar to whats happening to the Great Depression becase there are millions of people loosing their jobs and plenty of people going on to unemployment.