Project Plan

I am going to do theme number 1 and use the MCAS standards #25-27 and 30 and mabey 21.
I am going to do a power point type thing.

North Africa Summary #2

In north africa the economy has been very diverse. A servey found that one in ten people had paid a bribe in the past 12 months. Many of these bribes had been payed to police. In africa 42% of people paid a bribe to obtian a service. France is compensating thousands of vetrens who fought against thier own countrymen inorder to prserve French colonial rule in Algeria. Also the Cotonou agreement was made. This revised the old Lome conventions which allowed mineral and manufactored goods to enter European Community free of duty. Since the World Trade Orginazation regulations deemed in incompatibe they changed it so that goods whouldnow be open to European goods. In Europe the sugar farmers prices have been cut by 36 percent, reducing the amount of farmers. African sugarcane producers now have a greater demand for thier product. Also the French oil group Total is investing 1bn euros in a petrochemical complex in Arzew (western Algeria). In Tuisia the Gulf Finance House is setting up the Tunis Financial Harbour, which has an estimated value of $3 billion.

Chapter 23 section 5 Critical Thinking #4

How successful do you think Franklin Roosevelt was as a president? Support your answer with details from the text.

I think Franklin Roosevelt was an extremly succsessful president. He, in about 200 days, fixed the nations economy and decreased the nations uneployment rate by a significantly large number. He created social security, making a back up plan for people who were not working of needed aid for certain reasons. He protected workers rights. He made jobs (CCC) that helped the nation by lowering the unemployment rate and helping the nation by building things like railroads, parks, and planting trees. He made a back up plan so that the banks in fact could not all go bankrupt at once again, and made it so people could only sell on margin with specific restrictions, making it so the nation could not go back into such a large amount of debt.

Chapter 23 section 5 Critical Thinking #3

Some critics have charged that the New Deal was antibusiness and anti–free enterprise. Explain why you agree or disagree with this charge. Think About:
• the expanded power of the federal government
• the New Deal’s effect on the economy
• the New Deal’s effect on the American people


I agree with that staement. By expanding the power of the federal government more government jobs were issued in order to stop unemployment. This was obviously not in favor of buisnesses. However this change helped the nations economy and boosted it outrageoulsy. It also helped the american people by giving them jobs, money and helping restore life back to nomral.

Chapter 23 section 4 Critical Thinking #3

What type of movies do you think might have been produced if the government had supported moviemaking as part of the New Deal? Use evidence from the chapter to support your response.

The type of movies that may have been produced would have probley been the same type of movies. This is because the movies that were made were made unpurpose to make people feel like they were in a differnt reality, like it was an escape from thier hardships. They had movies hat had to do with romance, riches, and good times. They also made movies that people could relate to, showing the hardships of the time. Also there were many movies in which it showed the New Deal in a good light, if the government was envolved there owuld probley have been many more of these.

Chapter 23 section 2 Critical Thinking #3

Why might the Social Security Act be considered the most important achievement of the New Deal? Think About:
• the types of relief needed in the 1930s
• alternatives to government assistance to the elderly, the unemployed, and the disabled
• the scope of the act

The Social Security Act may have been considered to be the most important achievement of the New Deal because it benefited everyone who needed help and had no other means to get it. Before Social Security if people were unemployed they had no means of aid. Elderly relied on their savings during retirement, and when banks crashed, they lost their money. People with disabled children were unable to have aid for the extra help they needed. The act made it so there was a supplement retire plan so that when a person retires they will have money that the government owes them in order to make sure they can not lose all of their money again. Unemployed people now got payed for a amount of time after they lost their jobs, making it so they had something to live off of while looking for a new job. Families with disabled members of the family now had an aid paid by federal funding, helping the fa miles money wise.

Chapter 23, sec.1, Critical Thinking#3

Of the New Deal programs discussed in this section, which do you consider the most important? Explain your choice. Think About:
• the type of assistance offered by each program
• the scope of each program
• the impact of each program

I think the most important New Deal program is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). One of the major issues of the depression was the fact that Americans were loosing jobs and were unable to find new ones. The CCC came up with government projects that would employ the unemployed. They made it so men from 18-25 worked building railroads, parks, plainting trees, ect. and they made $30 a month. $25 of thier saliries went straight home to thier familes. This program significantly improved the uneployment rate and helped support families who were suffering.