Terms for March 16 & 18th

1. Terms for March 16 & 18th • 4 Major Causes of the Great Depression • Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) • Hooverville • Bonus Army • “End Poverty in California” (EPIC) • Townsend Plan • Social Security Act of 1935 • The New Deal • The Second New Deal

2. Causes of the Great Depression • Stock market crash/lending crisis • Pre-1929 weaknesses in the US economy • Unequal distribution of wealth • Worldwide economic problems

4. From The Grapes of Wrath (Heritage Press, 1940)Collection of the Pace University Library

5. A Hooverville

6. Hooverville in Seattle, WA

7. Hooverville – Portland, OR

8. Hooverville – Circleville, OH

9. Sacramento, CA

12. Part of the Bonus Army’s CampSummer 1932

20. Working for the CCC:forestry, flood control, soil erosion

21. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Begun April 1933: 3 million single, unemployed men ages 18-24. In 9 years accomplished: • 89,000 miles of telephone line was installed • 126,000 miles of roads and trails were constructed • 6,459,000 man-days were expended fighting fires • 6,660,000 erosion control check dams were built • 2,356,000,000 trees were planted

22. Challenges from the Left:Upton Sinclair’s “EPIC” Plan

23. Challenges from the Left:Dr. Townsend