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Dorothea Lange
-Migrant mother is one of a sires of photograph her subject are homeless women their children and migrant workers.
-Her work was funded by federal agencies security administration.
-The editor than told the federal authorities whom urged the government to rush did to the camp to prevent starvation. -
Immigrants during the depression
-The stock market crashed in 1929.
-It caused high unemployment Americans panicked they began to blame Mexicans and European immigrants for their problem. -
Stock market crash A
Buying on the margin : Meant people had to pay 10 - 20% of the value of the shares you were borrowing 80-90 of the value of the shares. -
Stock market crash B
Warren G. Harding campaign promised to return the U.S prewar mentally without the through out of war tainting the minds of american people. -
Stock market crash event
It was a result of varicose economies imbalances & struetual failings , .In 1920 a rapid growth in bank credit & loan in the U.S . People millionaires get wiped out when stock market falls. -
Stock market C
-Disposable income is the amount of money that households have available for spending.
-people were spending instead of saving when the market crashed all the people did a "bank run " to get more money .
-The "Bank Run" caused the bank failure because the banks couldn't keep up with the people demands for money. -
William Randolph Hearst
-Hearst reputation suffered on the 1930 as his political view changed 1932 he was a major supporter of FDR his new papers through out 1933.
-Hearst broke with FDR in the spring of 1936 when president vetoed the pat man bonus bill. -
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 office 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. -
AAA ( Agricultural Adjustment Act )
-Its purpose was to help farmers by reducing production of staple crops, taxes forced farmers to cut amounts they marketed the government even paid for farmers not to grow crops so prices would not go up and help the land. -
Tennessee valley authority
-It was created by congressional in may 1933 to provide flood control electricity generator and economic development during 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 & Virginia some feared the TVA was a form of socialism. -
21st Amendment
-Many people had simply refused to accept the ban on alcohol.
-Even president Harding drink alcohol in the white.
-Prohibition was repealed by the twenty - first amendment.
- The experience of prohibition demonstrated that unpopular laws are sometimes unenforceable. -
Securities and exchange commission
-The purpose of the sec is protecting investors from dangerous or illegal financial practices of fraud.
-The issue id addressed was the fact that no one was watching the stock market. -
FDIC
-Purpose was to provide stability to the economy and the failing bank system.
-Instead bank deposit so that people work lose their saving in the bank failed -
Gold reserve act
-United stated had bi-metallic system of money.
- Silver was also traded.
-Gold standard came to an end in 1933 when Roosevelt issued an executive order outlawing the ownership of gold besides jewelry.
-Roosevelt wanted people to rely on " Fiat Money " ( paper money ) -
Huey Long 1935
-U.S senator & former governor of Louisiana Huey Long promised to give each american family and income of $5,000 was assassinated before he was able to mount his campaign FDR -
Reform of the New Deal
-Social security was probably the most important measure of the new deal provided workers with unemployment insurance , old age early workers and their employers can paid new contributions to fund these benefits in part of roosevelt. -
Social Security Act
-In 1935 social security act was created for old age unemployed people who cant help there -self's the SSA was part of the 3R's of the new deal that " FDR " put in place because of the great depression -
Judicial Procedures Reform Bill
-The reform bill was frequently called the "court packing plan" a legislative imitative proposed by US president Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justice to the US supreme court.
The bill was to increase the number of US supreme court justices then to 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 ( new deal socialism )
-Cooperating with conservation democrat and led the conservative that opposed the new deal.
-The republican gains in the 1938 election combined with the creation of the conservation had stopped the expansion of new deal.
-Calling for economy in government, a balanced budget and less centralization of power in the nation capital. -
Grapes Of Wrath
-the grapes of wrath in an american realist novel written by john Steinbeck and published in 1939 an okie is a resident native or cultural descendant of Oklahoma the route 66 ( U.S 66 or route 66 ) , the main hwy in the 1930s that connected the great plains to California migrant went to California in hopes to find jobs and to work but when they got there the jobs were taken.