American Studies
Thursday - Quiz #1. If absent, you have 3 days to make up the quiz.
Friday - After a discussion and analysis of some items related to the Dust Bowl, we collectively reviewed some of the problems related to the Depression, from massive unemployment to systemic financial collapse. The discussion then turned to Herbert Hoover and his economic philosophies, as well as the prevailing philosophies to that point. For example, laissez-faire philosophies and worries about "moral hazards" led Hoover to pursue policies relying on volunteerism and "trickle-down" economics. These policies ultimately did not work, and the 4 million unemployed of 1929 became 16 million unemployed by 1932.
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