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1 News Story Joe Jones HST/165 May 24, 2017 MB 2 News Story Instructions Please use this template The 1920s introduced many modern conveniences, such as the widespread use of the washing machine, and many modern ideas, such as buying on credit. Imagine you are a newspaper reporter, magazine writer, or radio newsperson. Choose one of the following topics for your news story: • • • • • • • • • • • • Red Scare Sacco and Vanzetti Volstead Act Al Capone 19th Amendment to the Constitution Scopes Monkey Trial Ku Klux Klan Buying on credit Birth control clinics Films and celebrities Professional sports: baseball and boxing Immigration Act of 1924 Write a 700- to 1,050-word news story. If you choose the role of radio newsperson, you must write a broadcast script. The news story must address the following: • • Detailed description of the topic, and its significance to the time Implications for American society in terms of economic, social, and cultural trends Choose one of the following companies and write an advertisement for that company to accompany your news story: • • • • • • • • • • Ford Motor Company RCA Coca-Cola Sears, Roebuck & Co. General Electric Maytag Hallmark Cards Hoover American Tobacco Co. Nabisco Format your news story according to appropriate course level APA guidelines. 3 Include 3 references The Great Depression HST/165 Version 2 University of Phoenix Material The Great Depression Part 1 Complete the chart by filling in each president’s views on the Great Depression. Great Depression Herbert Hoover Franklin Delano Roosevelt Causes of the Great Depression General description of response to the Depression Beliefs that guided him in his attempt to solve it Copyright © 2015, 2014, 2011, 2008, 2005, 2004 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. 1 The Great Depression HST/165 Version 2 What he told Americans they had to do to overcome the Depression What agencies he relied on to provide relief Significant acts passed during his presidency to help end the Depression Success or failure of his program, and why Copyright © 2015, 2014, 2011, 2008, 2005, 2004 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. 2 The Great Depression HST/165 Version 2 Part 2 Most historians agree that the New Deal did not solve the problems of the Great Depression and that, in short, it failed to bring about full economic recovery. Nevertheless, it can be argued that the New Deal was significant in that it introduced a new political tradition and brought fundamental change in a number of areas to America. Write a 350-word response to each of the following questions: • What do you think is meant by the statements above? How did the New Deal change America? • Do you think the New Deal changed the relationship between citizens and the federal government and, if so, how? For example, should the government help regulate the economy? Copyright © 2015, 2014, 2011, 2008, 2005, 2004 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. 3
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The Great Depression
HST/165 Version 2

University of Phoenix Material
The Great Depression
Part 1
Complete the chart by filling in each president’s views on the Great Depression.
Great
Depression

Causes of
the Great
Depression

Herbert Hoover

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

He had the view that the primary cause of the

Considered the banking calling for higher interest rates was

Depression was the imposition of tariffs and taxes by

the cause of the depression.

the government.

Restored the banking system and authorize loans to
General
description
of response
to the
Depression

farmers and businesspeople to prevent bankruptcy.

Beliefs that
guided him
in his
attempt to
solve it

He believed in private and public cooperation and

Closed all the banks in his first 100days until the
government could get control of the situation. Sacked the US
Supreme Court judges who were ruling out of favor of his

Pressured business and companies from laying off

New Deal (Himmelberg, 2001).

workers or reducing wages (Ohanian, 2009).

opposed massive government involvement in the

He was willing to apply government influence to the
weakening economy and regain Americans confidence.

businesses.

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1

The Great Depression
HST/165 Version 2

What he told
Americans
they had to
do to
overcome
the
Depression

What
agencies he
relied on to
provide
relief

Significant
acts passed
during his
presidency
to help end
the
Depression

He said to the Americans to volunteer in controlling

He told the Americans that the only thing they have to fear is

the business sector which was deteriorating will help

fear itself, nameless, unjustified terror and unreasoning.

solve the depression.

He relied on businesses to function well so as to

Relied on the supreme court not to rule against his policies

employ many people. Also relied on the banking

that are why he fired all those judges against his policies and

system to provide loans to the people to practice

appointed new judges who will implement and not question

agriculture so as to find a way out of poverty which

his policies (Ohanian, 2009). He also relied on the Congress

will help in the eradication of the depression

to help solve the banking crisis.

The Reconstruction Finance corporation, Glass-

There was the pass of the New Deal by congress and franklin

Steagall and emergency Relief, Agricultural

to control depression and also franklin directed the closure of

marketing act and Construction acts were passed so as

all the banks until the government be control of the banking

to enable USA end the depression period.

system.

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The Great Depression
HST/165 Version 2

Success or
failure of his
program,
and why

His policies and programs failed to achieve success.

The policies and programs were a success in reducing the

Through loans given to the farmers it drove the

depression although world war II enable the end o...


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