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Franklin D Roosevelt
32nd preident. Helped america through the Great Depression. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration. -
Langston Hughes
American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright. He was one of the earliest innovators of the literary art form jazz poetry -
Unemployment
5.2% -
unemployment
5.2% -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression didn't just happen for the Untied States but it was world wide. Most countries it hit during the 1930's til 1940's. In american the unemployment was up to 25%. The reason it was world wide was because the world was intertwined with trade, importing and exporting goods, loaning money etc. Once the Stock market crashed other countries, including america, started to feel the reprecusions. -
unemployment
4.2% -
The deportation of Mexican Americans in the Great Depression
During the Great Depression close to 2million Mexican Americans were deported. Due to the high precentage of unenployment the government started to deport these hispanics in hopes to free up jobs for the 'real americans'. Through out the 1930s Mexiacn Americans were deported, even ones who were legal US citizens. -
Medicare & Medicaid
Medicaid and Medicare are two governmental programs that provide medical and health-related services to specific groups of people in the United States. -
unemployment
23.6% -
The New Deal
The new deal was the governments attempt to fix the economy. When Franklin Rosevelt took office he started many government programs that gave jobs, and new hope for people. The new deal lasted all the until 1969. Though Franklin was trying to help many of the programs were unconstituional and that is why we dont see them around today. -
Tennesse Valley Authority
the TVA was createsd to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development -
Relief, Recovery, Reform
This was the plan FDR had when he took office. Relief-Immediate action taken to stop the economies deterioration. Recovery-Temporary programs to restart the economy. Reform-Permanent programs to avoid another depression and reasure the people of america. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
is an independent agency created by the U.S. Congress to maintain stability and public confidence in the banks -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was caused by many factors, one of the big ones was crop rotation. There was also the fact that som many people were buying land planting and replating and not worrying what was happening to the soil. Over grazing was a factor as well. with no grass to hold the top soil in tact it just blew away. -
Securitites and Exchange Commission
A U.S. government agency that supervises the exchange of securities so as to protect investors against malpractice -
Social Security & Social Security Administration
It was created as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal with the signing of the Social Security Act of 1935. -
judicial Interpretation during the New Deal
The Great Deperssion hinder the US government just as muchas it had hurt the citizens of the US. When FDR started to pass these programs that would help the economy the Supreme Court turned a lind eye knowing that they were unconstituonal they knew it was in best interest. -
unemployment
19% -
unemployment
4.7% -
unemployment
5.3% -
unemployment
5.6% -
unemployment
5.6% -
unemployment
9.3% -
unemployment
9.2%