Warm-ups Unit 5

What do you know about the Great Depression, list as many things as you can? After the

discussion then have the students write what they now know. (T chart)

• Know • Know now

Warm up : Longshoreman article:1. What are longshoremen & what were their demands in 1933?2. What happened in July 1934?3. What was the end result?

Answers to Longshoremen Warm-up

• Workers at docks and harbors-unloaded cargo. They wanted 6 hour day, fair wages, equalized work opportunities, end of discrimination

• “Bloody Thursday”-They held a strike and in 1934 the National Guard was called in to break up strike. They used guns, goon squads, tear gas. Hundreds wounded 2 killed.

• End result was that the public supported strikers after Bloody Thursday and after federal government got involved they got what they wanted

• Tues/Wed 1/8-9• Stock Market article. How does the Stock

Market work? Explain and describe in at least four sentences.

Thu/Fri 1/10-11• Dust Bowl map handout & questions

• Monday January 14th

• Page 489• In the 1932 election why did FDR win and

Hoover lose? What was the 20th amendment, why was it enacted?

• Warm up: What programs of the New Deal do we still utilize today and how do they impact our lives?

• Thursday/Friday 1/17-18• Warm up: What were the arguments for &

against the New deal ( pg 516)