New Deal Essay Outline

How, and with what success, did the United States government try to solve the problems caused by the Great Depression?

A strong, well-developed thesis statement that provides a structured framework for an argument.
The nature and scale of the problem facing Roosevelt
The action he took through the 1930s (the "Hows")
The impact of the New Deal on Americans (Successes / Failures / In-betweens)
The reasons for opposition to the New Deal (Counter-argument)
Your own judgement on its success. (To what extent... / with what success...)

Thesis: There were many problems caused by the Great Depression, such as Unemployment, the Homeless, and the Economy, and these problems were dealt with by the goverment by Relief, Reform, and Recovery. These attempts were greatly successful because it provided people with Jobs as well as helped with the banking problems.

Paragraph #2: (How- helping the struggling people)
-Federal Emergency Relief Administration
-How it helped

Paragraph #3: Recovery
-FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and how it helped
-Securities Exchange Commission and how it helped.


Paragraph #3: REFORM
-Emergency Banking Act
Stabalizes banks keeps people from loosing all their money

Paragraph #5: (Counterargument)
-FDR seen as dictator because packed supreme court so that he would have 10 votes
-Unemployment and homeless
-FDR laid off many workers who had been employed by the New Deal's own organizations
-FDRcut the New Deal budget in 1937, the country went back into recession.

Causes of the Great Depression Outline

Prompt: To what extent was the Wall Street Crash a cause of the Great Depression of 1929? Support your argument with specific examples.

The Wall Street Crash was one of the major causes of the Great Depression, Along with over-production, over-use of credit and small wages. These worked in unison to cause the Great Depression of 1929.

The Wall Street Crash
I. People lost great amounts of money
-People who bought stocks using loans because they believed the market would continue to rise lost money and the loaners also lost their money
II. No money to buy products
-Products are being over-produced and so the companies are loosing money because the people do not have the money buy them

Over Production
I. Too many products are being made
-consumers do not need all of them
-Consumers do not have money from stock market crash
II. Soldiers home from war do not need rations
-crops harvested are going to waste because they are not needed and people do not have the money for them

Over-Use of Credit
I. People were using money they did not have to buy things
-Increased the debt
-People were not able to receive payment for things, debts were not able to be payed back because of the loss of money from the Stock Market Crash

Small Wages and Lay-offs
I. People had no money to buy things
-Prices kept increasing but wages did not so people could not afford items
II. People could not pay off stock market debts because of the wages
-Lay-offs because companies are not making money

Causes & Early Effects of the Great Depression

1. What happened on "Black Tuesday"?
On black tuesday the stock market completely crashed and then people tried to sell all their stocks and it just made the market drop even more.


2. How did the economic trends of the 1920s in industry, agriculture, and with consumers help cause the Great Depression? (Make sure you include significant details about each area in your answer. It should be at least a paragraph)
The industries in the 1920's were not performing well, and agriculture helped because they didnt need to supply the troops anymore so the crops were not getting bought. THerefore the prices dropped, and Consumers helped because they did not have the money to buy the products which prices kept going up.

3. According to your reading, what are the major causes of the Great Depression?
The major causes of the Great Depression were credit cards, not big enough salaries and wages for workers, and over production of things when people weren't using them.

4. What was Hoover’s philosophy of government?
Hoover believed that government should make competing groups cooperate.

5. What was Hoover’s initial reaction to the stock market crash of 1929?
Hoovers initial reaction was to get the leaders of the economy to keep wages the same and get them to work together, but this did not work. The hoover damn was also created.

6. What was the nation’s economic situation in 1930?
The nations economy was becoming worse and more people were becoming unemployed. Also the number of homeless people was rising.

7. How did voters in 1930 respond to this situation?
Lots of the republicans were voted out of office and many anti-hoover Democrats were voted in.

8. What did Hoover do about the economic situation?
Hoover helped make lots of cooperatives and also created the Federal Home Loan Bank Act, the Glass-Steagle Banking Act, and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

9. How did the economy respond to his efforts?
The economy just got worse and worse.