Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Great Depression and Unit Test


This week we will be finishing up the unit on the Great Depression and having an exam this Friday. All materials for the exam are on the right hand side of this blog under the category called assignments. These materials need to be reviewed extensively for the Friday Exam

Thursday, March 17, 2011

The Great Depression... The Beginnings

This week we've started the Great Depression period 1929-1939. What started this period was a combination of several events that built up in the late 1920's Overproduction of Goods, Banking Failures and the Stock Market Crash of 1929 are most notable.

For the rest of this week we will be discussing how the President at the time, Herbert Hoover, tried desperately to fix all of these problems....

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

"The Roaring 20's" ...contined



This week we will be finishing up the Roaring 20's decade by looking at the leadership in our government, changes in immigration, and the underlying problems in the economy leading up to the Stock Market Crash of 1929.

There will be a Quiz this Thursday on Material from Chapter 22 in the Textbook
Student should complete homework assignments, review notes and stay turned for more details regardign the quiz.