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Black Tuesday
Most catastrophic stock market crash in the history of the united states. -
immigration during the Depression
tension grew towards immigrant and migrant worker both Mexican and European due to the lack of jobs and dust bowl. After a certain amount of time during the depression, U.S. stopped allowing immigrants into the country. The police stopped deporting Mexicans and European immigrants and some rare occasions farmers in the south were deported because they were mistaken as immigrants. -
Dorethea Lange
Ms. Lang during her career in 1930's she wanted to use the power of the image to effect political change. Many Americans lost their homes and families in the depression. People were homeless and went hungry millions depend on soup kitchens for their food the last photo "Migrant Mother" was published in the San Francisco March 10, 1936. Effect: was funded by federal agencies farm security administration helped draw attention to the desperate conditions in rural America during GD. -
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commsion
Created to watch over the stock market, prevent fraud and guard against another stock market collapse. -
20th Amendment
sets the dates at which federal government elected offices end also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies. Elected officials who had been replaced were officer longer than was necessary called "Lame Duck" period mire the new president from taking in office in February back to January to lesson lame duck period. -
Agriculture Adjustment Act
Its purpose was to help farmers by reducing production of staple crops, taxes forced farmers to cut amounts they marketed the gov even paid for farmers not to grow crops so prices would not go up and help the land. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
Was created to by congressional in may 1933 to provide flood control electricity generator and economic development during the depression this was president Roosevelt new deal for reform largest public power company in the U.S. owns the 5th largest river system provides electricity for Tennessee but also parts of Kentucky Alabama Georgia north Carolina and Virginia some feared the TVA was form of socialism. -
Francis Townsend
An American physician who was best known for his revolving old-age pension proposal during the great depression. -
21st Amendment
Many people had simply refused to accept the ban on alcohol, even president Harding drank alcohol in the white house. Prohibition was repealed by the twenty first amendment, the experience of prohibition demonstrated that unpopular laws are sometimes unenforceable. -
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Insured bank deposits so that people would not lose their savings in the event of a bank failure. -
21st Amendment
The 21st amendment ratified the 18th amendment and ended prohibition -
FDR First term
Roosevelt's famous quote "Only thing we have to fear is fear itself" addressing himself to cause of the economic crisis and its moral, dimensions, Roosevelt placed blame squarely on the greed and short sightedness of bankers and business me. He defended Herbert Hoover, major issue Americans facing wide spread unemployment. Great depression continued the nation's economy continued to wheeze. -
Securities and Exchange Commison
The purpose of the sec is protection investor from dangerous or illegal financial practices of fraud the issues it addressed was the fact that one was watching the stick markets the effects of its passage was to prevent another stock market collapse, in doing so it evolved our markets into high-tech trading conter. -
Social Security Act
was probably the most important measure of the new deal. It provided workers with unemployment insurance, old age pensions, and insurance if they died early. workers and their employers each paid new contributions to fund these benefits. -
Huey Long
U.S. senator and former governor of Louisiana Huey Long promised to give each american family an income of $5,000 was assassinated before he was able to mount his campaign FDR -
Judicial Procedures Reform Bill
The reform was frequently called the "court packing plan" a legislative proposed by U.S. president Franklin D Roosevelt to add more justice to the U.S. supreme court. The bill was to increase the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices then bring in several new justices who would change the balance of opinion on the court. Roosevelt failed many times at attempting to pass the law its failure exposed the limits of Roosevelt abilities to push legislation through direct public appeal. -
Robert Taft
Cooperating with conservative democrat and led the conservative that opposed the new deal. The republican gains in the 1938 elections combined with the creations of the conservative had stopped the expansion of new deal, calling for economy in government, a balanced budget and less centralized of power in the nation capital -
William Randolph Hearst+