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HIPP Analysis Assignments

1. Previous HIPP Analysis 1. Previous Assignments

1. Marginal Trades / Farm Sim2. Great Depression Web3. Great Depression Video Notes4. Great Depression CLAIM, EVIDENCE,

COMMENTARY, Paragraph5. Great Depression Flow Chart 6. Graphing the Great Depression

1. Brother Can You Spare a Dime

Assignment 1 Journal entries for either Marginal Trades or Oklahoma Farming Simulation

Great

Depression

Republican Economic Policy

High Tariffs

Tax on Imported Goods Laissez

Faire

trickle-down economics

Stock Market Crash

Low Government Regulations

Run On Banks

Uncheck Stock Speculation

Real Estate Market

Buying up Land Cheap to sell to developers high

Banks Collapse

Overproduction

WWI – Europe relies on US Goods

Farming Industry Decline

Take out loans to survive

Dust Bowl

Ecological Damage to Farm Land

Unequal Distribution of Wealth

Europe Recovers & U.S. Loses Market

Bad Loans

Bad Lo

ans

Assignment 2

Assignment 3Video Notes - Stormy Weather: Watch the video, fill out note-sheet located below video

Assignment 4Read Reading Guide article.Write a paragraph using Claim, Evidence, Commentary.

As the 1920s came to an end, a wave of bank failures foreshadowed the human tragedy soon to follow. Set off by the stock market crash in October 1929, 659 banks failed in 1929; in 1930 the number had risen to 1,350. As people lost their job and their investments, millions defaulted on loans and mortgages, spurring an even large epidemic of a failures. The number increased to 2,293 in 1931, and 1,453 banks closed their doors in 1932, the worst year of the depression. In total, $3.2 billion in savings accounts were lost. Many families were left penniless, and thousands who had saved for homes or retirement lost everything.

As one bank after another failed during the Great Depression, depositors rushed to withdraw the savings from their bank accounts. People were often met with closed doors, shuttered windows, and silence in the face of their frantic appeals. In Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? author Milton Meltzer presents one journalist's account of a bank failure in a small Midwestern town:

"In the middle of the banking day the doors were closed by the examiners .... [One woman] beat with her fists upon the closed plate-glass doors and screamed and sobbed without restraint. She had in a savings account the $2,000 from her husband's insurance and $963 she had saved over a period of twenty-five years from making rag rugs. Nothing was left but charity."

The Failure of U.S. Banks

Assignment 5

Flow Chart Example

Assignment 5

Assignment 6

Assignment 6

Assignment 6