Historical Investigation Questions

How is your HI going? I have a couple of ideas to either get you going or to un-stick your research.

#1- Put the paper aside and just research. Pull pieces of evidence from a wide a source base as you can. Spend most of your time dong this as you can now read with a critical eye rather than throwing together stuff that sounds good for the deadline. Once you have a good list well beyond what you need for the summary of evidence. Now pair down and keep only the best.

#2- Once you have a solid or improved summary evidence, go ahead and begin the analysis anew given that trying to revise it might be harder. When I went for my National Boards I revised a paper over and over instead of rewriting it. It received the lowest score of my my four papers.

#3- If you scored a twenty or over do not mess with it. But remember that does not guarantee what your final score so you will want to make some changes. DO A LITTLE AT A TIME.

Please post your questions and ideas here. Also if you have a request for a certain type of post please let me know. Good Luck. I hope you are enjoying your summer.

Bouchard

Hoover and FDR/New Deal Review Post- Seniors

With reference to specific programs, discuss to what extent Hoover and FDR/New Deal successfully addressed one of the following groups.

Banks, Industry, Elderly, Arts, Labor, Farmers/Rural Areas, Women, Youth, African Americans, Women, Native Americans and Mexican Americans.

Review for New Deal Critics- Seniors

Take one of critics of FDR's, give their critic and how it impacted FDR and the New Deal? Which critic do you think had the greatest impact on the New Deal? Why?

Stock Market Crash Post- Juniors have to post and Seniors can post.

"October 29, 1929, "Black Tuesday," is remembered as the most devastating day in American stock market history. Stock prices fell in a selling frenzy that began the moment the opening bell sounded. When the trading day was over, the Dow Jones Industrial Average had dropped more than thirty points, with some leading stocks plummeting $30-$60 a share. Billions of dollars of fortunes and the life savings of many small investors were wiped out as the decline of the market, which had begun in September, culminated on Black Tuesday. Few people had foreseen the coming of the Great Crash. The country had been riding on the boom of the 1920's."
Source Citation: "The U.S. Stock Market Crashes On Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929." DISCovering World History. Online Edition. Gale, 2003. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/History/

The Stock Market Crash was less dramatic than the common lore portrays it, but it was dramatic given the way people in the twenties viewed the time period. So respond to the following IB prompt given what you know from class and reading the two articles.

"To what extent was the Wall Street Cash a cause of the Great Depression of 1929 in the United States? Support your argument with specific examples"