Unit VIII

1
Unit VIII Boom Times and Challenges

• Chapter 25 The Great Depression
• Section 1 The End of Prosperity

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The End of Prosperity

• The Big Idea
• The collapse of the stock market in 1929 helped
  lead to the start of the Great Depression.
• Main Ideas
• The U.S. stock market crashed in 1929.
• The economy collapsed after the stock market
  crash.
• Many Americans were dissatisfied with Hoovers
  reaction to economic conditions.
• Roosevelt defeated Hoover in the election of 1932.

3
The Stock Market Crash 27 min.
4
Black Tuesday (0506)
5
The Great Depression Begins in America
324 min.
6
The Great Depression
430 min.
7
President Hoover vs. World War I Vets (0303)
8
Welcome to Hooverville (0622)
9
Herbert Hoover (0649)
10
Introduction of FDR's Democratic Family (0042)