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Stock Market Crash of 1929
-Black Tuesday
-beginning/cause of the Great Depression -
Hoovervilles
-towns made by homeless people during the Great Depression
-named after President Herbert Hoover, who was blamed for the Great Depression -
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Great Depression
-time of severe, worldwide economic depression
-used as an example of how bad the world's economy can get -
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New Deal
-a series of economic programs enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Great Depression
-Relief, Recovery, and Reform: relief for the unemployed and the poor, recovery of the economy, and reform to prevent another economic depresssion -
Eleanor Roosevelt
-human rights activist
- first presidential spouse to hold press conferences and speak at a national convention
-expanded roles for women in the workplace -
Tennessee Valley Authority
-corperation to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley -
Huey Long
-Share Our Wealth plan
-new wealth redistrubution plan
- Advocated federal spending on public works, schools and colleges, and old age pensions to stimulate the economy -
Dust Bowl
-drought
-severe dust storms caused ecological and agricultural damage -
Neutrality Act
-stated that America stay neutral during the beginnings of World War II -
Wagner Act
- preventied employers from interfering with workers’ unions and protests in the private sector
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Social Security Act
-created the Social Security system
-was an attempt at limiting modern American issues -
Court Packing bill
-President Franklin D. Roosevelt added more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court in order to obtain favorable rulings regarding New Deal legislation