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Migrant Mother
Her photographs of migrants workers helped draw attention to the desperate conditions in rural america and helped to underscore the need for direct reliefs
Dorothea Lange -
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Huey Long
Opposed the new deal because he believed that Roosevelt plan to help the american economy after the great depression not adequately help citizens living in poverty
Share our wealth plan also known as Huey Longs a program designed to provide the decent standard of living to all Americans by spreading the nations wealth among the people -
Stock Market Crash part A
Stock Market crash was a decline in u.s. Stock Market values in 1929 that contributed to the great depression of the 1930
Buying on the margin became so popular that by the late 1920's 90% of the purchased price of the stock was being
Us .economy had come to depend on activity
Before the crash nearly 40 cents of every dollar loaned in America was used to buy stocks -
Stock Market Crash of part b
President Harding wanted to return to normally and the economy became good
Millions of Americans became unemployed
Protections was a rescue of the great depression which was a result of the crash -
Stock Market Crash Part C
As a bank run progress it generates its own momentum: as move people with draw cash the likelihood of default increased triggering further with drawls
This can destabilize the bank to the point where it runs out of cash and thus faces sudden bank failure -
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Great Depression
One fourth of the labor force was out pf work hourly wages dropped by 50% hundreds of books had faded price for agricultural products dropped to their level the civil war
The worst unemployment hate was in 1932 and it was 23.6% 13 to 15 million was unemployment
The government instructed a sense it experimental projects and program known collect as the new new deal that that elected to restore property to many Americans
Many were depended at their homes or evicted -
Immigration during the Great Depression
Immigration Act Opposed quotas on immigrants from Europe but not from mexico
Mexicans freely entered the us as long as they payed tax and passed a test
Many came to escape tumoial cased by the Mex revolution
Immigrants were talking all the jobs so hoover passed a Mexican reparation act to send them back to mexico -
William Randolph Hearst
Hearst reputation suffered in the 1930's as his political views change in 1932
He was major support of FDR is was a newspaper through 1933
Hearst broke with FDR in the spring of of 1935 when president voted the pat man bonus bill -
Dust Bowl
Human causes
Farmers had been plowing the grass lands for the crops in central plains and trapping under ground water supplies
Natural causes were 10 year drought has occurring
Farmers had to move to California because their harvest mas being destroyed
The Carrie the top soil away this why if was called the dust bowl -
20 th amendment
20th Amendment intended for lame duck sessions to occur
A lame-duck session of Congress in the United States occurs whenever one Congress meets after its successor is elected,
What each amendment did it changed where both president couldn't be in the same building -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt presidency
He defeated Herbert Hoover in the 1932 election
only thing we have to fear is fear itself FDR was trying to say that fear is whats causing things to go wrong it gave the american people government time to calm down & make recovery plans
the greatest problem was the widespread of unemployment due tot the stock market crash of 1932
Promised Americans a New Deals to put them back to work 3r's relief recovery & reform -
FDIC
Is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Its on independent agency of the Federal government that preserves public confidence in the banking system by insuring deposit
President Franklin Roosevelt signed the banking act in 1933 a part which established FDIC
This was part of Roosevelt reform legislation during the New Deal -
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The New Deal
The New Deal was helped am recover from the depression
Relief provide temporary help to suffering and unemployment am includes the social security act
Recovery was to help the economy bounce back from the depression includes the agricultural adjustment
Reform targeted the caused of the depression creating FDIC & Bank reform played a big part
He expanded the role of government through programs designed to restore public confidence and provide jobs -
Francis Townsend
Dr. Francis was a physician who devised the Townsend plan
The plan promised to the end the great depression by opening up jobs for younger workers while forcing senior to spend money in the consumer economy
Adopted a version of the Townsend plan when the social Security program was created -
21 st amendment
It passed in 1933
Repealed the 18 th Amendment
Cause- Americans concerned about the adverse of drinking
Effect- Brought an end to the era of national probation of alcohol in America
Even president Harding drank alcohol in the white house -
SEC
SEC was created to watch over the stock market prevent fraud and guard against other stock market collapse
Was Roosevelt reform against the New Deal -
Gold Reserve Act & the Gold standard
Gold & silver have provided two accepted forms of exchange
Came to an end in 1933 when pres Roosevelt issued an executive out landing the ownership of gold, except for jewelry
Roosevelt wanted people rely on paper money in order to expand the money supply stimulated economic activity
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S.E.C Security & Exchange Commission
Was created to watch over th stock market prevent fraud & guard against another stock market collapse
Part of the Reform in the 3 R'S
Required public corporation to register their stock sales -
Social Security Act
in the pre-social securities era almost no one had any reliable cash generating form of retirement security
It is an act to provide for the general welfare by enabling the states to make more adequate provision for aged people and many of hers needing assistance
Helps elderly people get checks a for retirement due to the dedicated social security pay roll taxes paid by employee nd employers -
AAA- Agricultural Adjustment Acts
In 1936 the supreme court declared the AAA constitutional
Was a US federal law of the New Deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsides not to plant on part of their land to kill excess livestock
Its purpose was to reduced crops surplus there fore effectively raise the value of crops part of recovery in the 3 R'S -
Judicial Procedures Reform Bill
Purpose to obtain favorable ruling regarding New deal legislation
Cause add more justices to the US Supreme Court
Viewed The Congress saw it as unconstitutional
Issued he stepped pass presidential power & did not follow check & balance -
Grapes of wrath
Author: John Steinbeck
route 66 main road of exodus for those fleeing from harsh economic and environmental conditions of the dust bowl
Oakies they called immigrants workers this it was a nickname that meant scum
Migrants hopes-
They moved to find new means to survival
Mild climates allowed for a long growing season in California
Steady income
Reality-
They found low paying jobs corporation owned farms