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great depression
the great depression was a national nightmare during the nineteen 20s many Americans lost their jobs with their material possessions when the great depression struck people felt worthless when president Roosevelt came into office his administration passed legislation that aimed to stabilize
industrial and agricultural production create jobs and stimulate -
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black tuesday-ww2
ctober 29, 1929, was a dark day in history. "Black Tuesday" is the day that the stock market crashed, officially setting off the Great Depression. Unemployment skyrocketed--a quarter of the workforce was without jobs by 1933 and many people became homelessThe end to the Great Depression came about in 1941 with America's entry into World War II. America sided with Britain, France and the Soviet Union against Germany, Italy, and Japan. -
20 admendment
the 20th amendment was written because the constitution was ratified to reduce the amount of time lame duck presidents and congressmen had to push politics before the new administration and legislators took over -
gold reserve act
the Gold Reserve Act outlawed most private possession of gold, forcing individuals to sell it to the Treasury, after which it was stored in United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox Normally the nationalization of a commodity would have been a huge controversy, but the Gold Reserve Act was seen as a necessary step to ending the Great Depression. Its was also moderated by the fact that an executive order had already made the private ownership or trading of gold a criminal offense. -
migrant mother
As the United States sank into the Great Depression, a photographer named Dorothea Lange turned her attention away from studio and portrait work toward the suffering she was seeing around her. she was tasked with helping poor families relocate,she went around and gave families food