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Model T
The Model T was created by Ford Motor. It was one of the cheapest cars around 1908 through 1927. That car was meant for the middle class. Almost anyone could buy a car before the Great Depression. -
18th Amendment
The amendent prohibited alcohol. People demanded alcohol during the Great Depression -
Tea Pot Dome Scandal
During the Harding administration in which the Secretary of the Interior gave away government oil reserves to pay back bribes. it made oil prices go up. -
Dawes Plan
The plan helped Britain and France repay their debts to the U.S. After the stock market crash, Germany stopped reparation payment so Britain and France ended payments to the U.S. -
Black Tuesday
Black Tuesday is when the Stock Market went down so quick, that a lot of people lost a lot of money. That was the beginning of the Great Depression. -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
The Smoot-Hawley Tariff raised US tariffs to historically high levels. It did not help end the Great Depression and in fact caused more suffering. -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
It was an indepedent agency. Its purpose was to facilitate economic activity by lending money during the Great Depression. So it helped people and companies during the Depression -
Bonus Army March
The Bonus Army, some 15,000 to 20,000 World War I veterans from across the country, marched on the Capitol. Because of the Great Depression many veterans were jobless -
Tennessee Valley Authority
Even by Depression standards, the Tennessee Valley was in sad shape in 1933. TVA was designed to modernize the region, using experts and electricity to combat human and economic problems. -
Public Works Administration
Public Works Administration (PWA) budgeted several billion dollars to be spent on the construction of public works. More jobs were open. -
national industrial recovery act
It was sought to assist the nation's economic recovery during the Great Depression. -
Civilian Construction Corps
It was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1943 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages 18-28. It helped many young men get jobs during the Great Depression. -
Security and Exchange Commission
After World War I, securities trading surged, but little effort was made by federal officials to regulate the industry by requiring financial disclosure of participants. -
Social Security Act
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Agricultural Adjustment Act
Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus so farmers could raise the value of crops. As the agricultural economy plummeted in the early 1930s. So the act didnt help out during the Great Depression.
