Transcript Launch List - Mr. Cochran

Launch List
• 1. Copy New Objectives
• 2. Copy New Homework
• 3. Have homework out
• Compare and contrast how Huey Long
and the Liberty League felt about the new
deal.
• Describe what escapism is.
• HW: Pg 726- Define 1-5, Explore 1-5
• On a scrap sheet of paper, answer the
questions from a “letter from a child written
during the great depression”
2a. Pension
• A sum of money paid to people on a
regular basis after they retire
2b. Collective Bargaining
• Process where unions and ownership negotiate
for a contract
2c. Sit-down Strike
2c. Sit-down Strike
2c. Sit-down Strike
• Workers stopping their work until their
union is recognized.
• Literally sitting down on the job and not
getting up until management recognized
their demands
2d. Unemployment insurance
• People who lose their
job received small
payments until they
found work again.
2e. Laissez faire
• “Lazy Government”
• Government should stay as small as
possible, especially out of the affairs of
business.
2f. Deficit Spending
• When the government spends more
money than it takes in
2g. National Debt
• Total sum of money the government owes
4. How did the Wagner act help
workers?
• It protected workers from unfair business
practices
• Guaranteed the right of collective
bargaining
5a. How did the new deal change
the role of government?
• The new deal greatly expanded
governments role; size and power of
government.
5b. State one argument for and one
argument against the new deal.
• For the new deal– Help get us out of the depression
– Put people to work
– Saved American Democracy
5b. State one argument for and one
argument against the new deal.
• Against the new deal
• Made Government Too Powerful
2/28 New Deal Perspectives:
• Was the New Deal good or bad?
Huey Long
• Believed the New
Deal did not do
enough
• Popular governor
from Louisiana.
Huey Long
Huey Long
Huey Long
• “Share our wealth” Program
• Every family is entitled to a car, a house
and a decent income.
• No one can make more than 1 million per
year, the rest goes to the government
Liberty League
• Opposed the new deal because it
interfered too much in private business
• Big government takes away individual
freedoms
Liberty League
• Laissez faire = Lazy Government
• New Deal Raises Taxes/Debt/Deficit
Old Test Question- 2003
#43
• “Unemployment Levels Reach New High”
• “Farmers Flee Dust Bowl”
• “Hundreds Line Up at Soup Kitchens”
With which decade are these headlines most
closely associated?
• (1) 1900–1910
(3) 1921–1930
• (2) 1911–1920 (4) 1931–1940