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Frankin D Roosevelt
32nd President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II (1882-1945) -
Dorothea Lange
an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration -
Langston Hughes
An American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry. -
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Great Depression Era
the economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s. -
Unempolyment rates
11.7% -
Unempolyment rates
3.2% -
The Great Depression
An economic crisis that began with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing the in 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment. -
The deportation of Mexican Americans in the Great Depression
Many returned to Mexico either by choice but many by force. There were few economic opportunities for unskilled workers in Mexico in the 1930s. The economic advances achieved by these immigrant Mexican laborers and their US.-born children, during the early decades of the twentieth century were probably little to nothing. Immigration to the United States was sharply ceased during the Depression. These actions were authorized by President Herbert Hoover in CA, TX, CO, IL, and MI. -
Unemployment Rates
25% -
The New Deal
Was a series of economic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936. They involved presidential executive orders or laws passed by Congress during the first term of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
“Relief, Recovery, Reform”
"Relief, Recovery, Reform” means: Relief for the unemployed and poor; Recovery of the economy to normal levels; and Reform of the financial system to prevent a repeat depressionwas. It is the ideas of the New Deal. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is a United States government corporation, which mean objective is to guarantees the safety of deposits in member banks. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is a federally owned corporation in the United States created to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression. -
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
Federal agency. SEC holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws and regulating the securities industry.SEC enforces the Securities Act of 1933, the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, along with others. -
The Dust Bowl
Got its name after Black Sunday. Areas of southeastern Colorado, southwest Kansas and the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas where affected by the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl was where there was dust storms that were swept in the air. -
Social Security & Social Security Administration (SSA)
FDR signs the Social Security Act guaranteeing pensions to those retiring at 65 with contributions from both employees and employers. Also provides financial aid to dependent children and blind people and establishes a system of unemployment insurance. -
Mexican Americans
Mexican Americans were treated poorly during the Great Depression and even unconstitutionally deported. -
Judicial Interpretation during the New Deal
Court packing was an entempt to expand the membership of the Supreme Court so that he could nominate justices who would uphold the constitution's New Deal., FDR wanted new supreme justices everytime they were doubted. -
Unemployment Rates
4.6% -
Medicaid and Medicare
Medicaid is a U.S program of health, for people with low incomes and resources. And the Medicare is also a health program, but hat guarantes access to health insurance for Americans ages 65 and older and younger people with disabilities as well as people with end stage renal disease
