1. This is a picture of Herbert Hoover. He was the President during the Great Depression.
2. Hoovervilles was the popular name for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression. They were named after President Hoover.
3. This picture shows people lined up in a breadline. Breadlines were for the people during the Great Depression who didn’t have work, and didn’t have money to eat, so they go and get free bread.
4. The dust bowl period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 (in some areas until 1940).
5. The stock market is The October 1929 crash came during a period of declining real estate values in the United States (which peaked in 1925 near the beginning of a chain of events that led to the Great Depression, a period of economic decline in the industrialized nations.
6. Black Tuesday is also known as the great crash in 1929 The depression originated in the United States, starting with the stock market crash of October 29, 1929 (known as Black Tuesday), but quickly spread to almost every country in the world.
7. Bonus Army the Bonus Marchers were more popularly known as the Bonus Army The war veterans, many of whom had been out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression, sought immediate cash payment of Service Certificates granted to them eight years earlier via the Adjusted Service Certificate Law of 1924.
8. Shantytowns are mostly found in developing nations, or partially developed nations with an unequal distribution of wealth.
9. The Grapes of Wrath I chose this one because it was a novel Set during the Great Depression.
10. Speculation implies that a business or investment risk can be analyzed and measured, and its distinction from the term Investment is one of degree of risk.



1. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States. He is known for helping bring the country out of the Great Depression.
2. Eleanor Roosevelt supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights.
3. WPA (Works Progress Administration) was the largest New Deal agency, employing millions to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads, and operated large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects.
4. Social Security Act the Act provided benefits to retirees and the unemployed, and a lump-sum benefit at death.
5. AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act) restricted agricultural production in the New Deal era by paying farmers to reduce crop area.
6. New Deal was a series of economic programs passed by Congress during the first term of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States, from 1933 to his reelection in 1937.
7. FDIC (Glass-Steagall Act) was a law that established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in the United States and introduced banking reforms, some of which were designed to control speculation.
8. CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) was a public work relief program for unemployed men, providing vocational training.
9. SEC (Federal Securities Act) was created by section 4 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
10. Motion Pictures the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry.



1. This is a picture of Babe Ruth I choose this picture of him because he was an American major league baseball player during 1914–1935, who became the best player in baseball during the 1920s.
2. This picture of the NAACP, which represents the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, gained strength and membership during the 1920s.
3. F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American author of novels and short stories, whose works are the paradigm writings of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself.
4. This is a picture of one of the most popular woman blues singer’s Bessie Smith in the 1920s.
5. I chose this man Langston Hughes because he was well known for his poetry and he was also known for what he wrote about the Harlem Renaissance.
6. Zora Neale Hurston I picked her because she was an American folklorist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance.
7. Charles Lindbergh was a famous American aviator from the 1920s. He was also an inventor an explorer.
8. Duke Ellington is largely recognized as one of the greatest figures in the history of jazz. He career flourished during the Harlem Renaissance.
9. Claude McKay was a Jamaican writer and poet who gained recognition during the Harlem renaissance.
10. George Gershwin was an American composer who played the piano. His music was widely listened to during the 1920s.

Unit 7: Life Changing Events

Many people change the way they act towards people because something might of happened to were they don't have anything to say to them anymore. Most people change the way they feel for a person if it's in a relationship situation or even in friendship.i know like for me i try to make some type of changes in my life and even like if I'm like hanging with a group of people that are up to trouble i try to keep my distance from them at all time 's. I think that's why i only hang out with certain people because allot of people cause drama an problems with other people like fights.

Is it ok to get involved on other people's business?

Is it ok to get involved on other people's business?

No not really because if things get out of hand and you witness something that doesn’t have to do with you .You can be considered a party to whatever happens because you know too much of what’s going on. So I really think people should stay out of other people’s business if it doesn’t concern them at all .now a days people are to noisy they like to be caught up in a lot of drama that doesn’t concern them. I also think people should keep personal stuff to themselves instead of telling people or there close friends because you never know if they can keep things you talk about to themselves.

Unit 5: Is it all about the money?

To be honest most people think its all about the money because like now everybody wants to play the lottery because they think if they would win they could bnuy a whole bunch of things that they really want but they really dont look at things like how homeless people need places to go and places to sleep. Like if i was a persont hat had alot of money i would atleast try to help out all of the people on the streets that dont have homes or jobs. So really i think it's really not all about the money i think its mainly about what you do with your money instead of using it all on yourselfes . But like there are stingy people that just think about thereselves and not the people that are hurting . So really it's not all about the money because money comes and goes.

Assignment 8 2nd poem

Amputation being performed in a hospital tent, Gettysburg, July 1863

I see fear I see near
I see people I see clear
Amputation is always near
Amputation is always full of fear

Lies between fears
Lies between near
Lies between gods
My name is fear

Imagine life without walking
My fear is always near
My life under a tent
Full of fear but will always stay near
Let’s pray let’s imagine life without walking

More fear more tears
My life is always near and full of fear
I close my eyes think of fear but at the end

I see fear
I see near
I see life
I see clear

Assignment 8: Civil War Perspectives- Blog Post

33Freedmen's School Poem

33 young children
33 young lives as they wait for freedom
They starve they crave they mourn
33 young children wanting freedom

33 young lives wait for freedom
33 young children want to read
33 young children want freedom
They just want equal opportunities
Equal rights, equal rights to vote

Freedmen school 33 young children that need help
33 children that look for hope, pride
And opportunities like other white children
33 young children
33 young lives as they wait for freedom

Freedom as one priority
Freedom for slaves
Freedom for all blacks
33 young lives that want houses
33 young children that want nice clothes
33 people and children that need help

Top 10 Most Painful Topics

1. Northwest Ordinance -The banning of slavery in the territory had the effect of establishing the Ohio River as the boundary between free and slave territory in the region between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River.
2. James Madison was an American politician and political philosopher who served as the fourth President of the United States (1809–1817) and is considered one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
3. Fugitive Slave Act was laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a public territory. In an effort to dislodge them, the US government waged the Seminole Wars, in which a total of about 1,500 U.S. soldiers died.
4. Volta invents electric battery was an Italian physicist known especially for the development of the first electric cell in 1800.
5. War of 1812 there was many immediate stated causes for the declaration of war.
6. Louisiana purchase there population is estimated to be 97,00 an the 1810 census
7. John Adams with his one term as president he was very frustrated with all the battles in his own federalist party which Alexander Hamilton had the bi-partisan disagreements with Jeffersonian republicans.
8. Cherokee “Trail of Tears a lot of the natives suffered from disease and died.
9. Library of Congress After much of the original collection had been destroyed during the War of 1812; Thomas Jefferson sold 6487 books to the library, his entire personal library, in 1815.
10. Alien and Sedition Act to seditious attacks from weakening the government.