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Great Depression era
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Unemployment rates for the years 1920, 1921, 1929, 1932, 1938, 1942, 1950, 1975, 1990, 2009, Today
1920:5.2%
1921:11.7%
1929:4.2%
1932:23.6%
1938:19.0%
1942:4.7%
1950:5.3%
1975:6.3%
1990:5.6%
2009:9.3%
TODAY:7.9% -
Langston Huges
Langston Hughes was 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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The Great Depression
The US Economy crashed causing a nationwide collapse in the economy. Many people went to banks for money the had invested but the money wasnt there so the bank made people pay but they couldnt. So many people lost their life savings and homes leaving them without anything. -
The deportation of Mexican Americans in the Great Depression
US Citizens became overwhelmed with fear and began deporting mexicans who help job possesions that we feared kept americans from gaining economical needs. -
The Dust Bowl
This dust storm accured during the great depression when tons of topsoil was blown away in the wind.This is directly caused by over farming and working of the land. -
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
TVA InfoTVA was created by George norris in 1933, who was a senetor in Nebraska. TVA Is the nations largest public power provider, it was allowed by congress in 1933 to help with a wide range of environmental, economic and social problems. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
He was the 32 President of the US. Who was in office from March 4, 1933-April 12,1945. He is alos known by his initial FDR. He helped US citizen regain faith in themselve durning the depression and is now for saying "The only thing we need to fear is fear itself." -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
This promotes US Citizens faith in the US financial sysem. It was created in 1933 to fight multiple bank failures. -
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The New Deal
A series of economic programs enacted in the US durning the Great depression. It made a political alighnment giving the democratic party more power. Roosevelt was elected in 1932 promising this new deal to try to bring economic stability. -
“Relief, Recovery, Reform”
These are three of the New Deal programs.
otherwise known as "The 3 R'S" or Roosevelts phylosophy on kensineayan economics. Roosevelt use these ideals to try to help the US economy get out of the depression. -
Entitlement Programs and Solvency
Created during the Great Depression of the 1930s, Social Security was the first “entitlement” program created by the federal government. The solvency and potential vulnerability of Social Security continues to be the subject of much heated political debate, particularly during times of economic distress and election-year fever it is a essensial to an election. -
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
It was created by congress to regulate securities markets and to help protect their investers. -
Social Security & Social Security Administration (SSA)
The social security is a government independent agency that hlp distribute Social Security, consisting of Retirement, disibility, and survivors benefits. -
Dorothea Lange
Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security, she took pictures of ordinary area people suffering in the depression era. She took 6 pictures labled as the "Migrant Mother" one of her most well known works. -
Judicial Interpretation during the New Deal
The judicial Interpretation during the New Deal consealed of a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Roosevelt's purpose was to obtain favorable rulings regarding New Deal legislation that had been previously ruled unconstitutional. -
Medicare & Medicaid
Medicare and medicaid are two government programs the provide people wth health services!
