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The Great Depression
The Great depression was a national nightmare during the 1920's many Americans had started to equal their self worth with their material possessions when the great depression struck people felt worthless the worst unemployment rate was 25% in 1933 (13-15 million) when president Roosevelt came into office his administration passed legislation that aimed to stabilize natural and agriculture production create jobs and stimulate recovery they called it the 3 R's -
Robert taft
robert taft was against the new deal he wanted to end it by stopping the growth of the new deal and eliminating many of its gov like spending high subsides gov bureaucracy he instead wanted to increase was to end the great depression -
The 20th amendment
*The 20th amendment was written because the constitution was ratified was to reduce the amount of lone duck presidents and congressmen had to push policies before the new administration and legislation took over -
The migrant mother
*Dorothea lange focused on recording the misery of the great depression and revealing her compassion for the poor and destitute she saw around her
*her photographs of the migrant workers helped draw attention to the despente conditions an america and helped to understand the need for direct relief