Today's Agenda

Content Standards: HS.UH.CE.3
Explain the political, social and economic causes and effects of economic boom and bust cycles between 1877-1945.

Learning Target:
I can explain the causes of the Great Depression, & I can describe its effects on ordinary Americans.

Critical Vocabulary: Dow-Jones Industrial Average, Speculation, Buying on Margin, Black Tuesday, Great Depression, Rugged Individualism, “Hoovervilles," Bread Lines, Soup Kitchens, Bonus Army, Dust Bowl, Reconstruction Finance Corporation New Deal, Emergency Banking Act, Fireside Chat, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Securities & Exchange Commission, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Civilian Conservation Corps, Court-Packing Bill, National Labor Relations Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, Social Security Act, Works Progress Administration, New Deal Coalition, Deficit Spending, Totalitarianism, Fascism, Nazism, Allied Powers, Axis Powers, Isolationism, America First Committee, Neutrality Acts, Internationalism, “Quarantine” Speech, Cash & Carry Policy, “Arsenal of Democracy," Lend-Lease Act, Atlantic Charter, Pearl Harbor, Battle of the Atlantic, North Africa Campaign, Battle of Stalingrad, Italian Campaign, Normandy Invasion, Battle of the Bulge, Bataan Death March, Doolittle’s Raid, Battle of the Coral Sea, Battle of Midway, Island-Hopping, Battle of Okinawa, Hiroshima, Office of War Information, Selective Training & Service Act, “Double V” Campaign, War Production Board, Zoot Suit Riots, Office of Price Administration, Executive Order 9066

Today's Agenda:

1. Background Question: How did President Hoover respond to the Great Depression?
2. Citizenship Question: What is freedom of religion? 
   1. Religious leaders are exempt from the law. 
   2. States may choose a religion for the people.
   3. Religious institutions do not have to pay taxes.
   4. People may or may not choose to practice a religion.
3. ​Individual Learning: Blackout Poems Activity
4. Reflection Question: Complete the Unit 6 Vocabulary.