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Dorothea Lange
Migrant mother is one of a series of photographs her subject are homeless women their children & migrant works
Her work was funded by federal agencies such as the farm security administration
The editor than told the federal authorities whom urged the gov to rush to the camp to prevent starvation -
The Stock Market Crash
Main causes of Great Depression:
Tariff and was debt policies that cut down the foreign market for American goods
A crisis in the farm sector
The availability of east credit
An unequal distribution of income
The Stock Market Crash was a result of various economic imbalances and structural failings -
Immigrants during the Depression
The stock market crashed in the 1929, it caused high unemployment. Americans panicked and began to blame Mexican & European immigrants for their problems
The U.S deported about 1.5 million Mexican & Europeans between 1929 & 1935
President Hoover authorized a special Mexican Repatriation Act to send the Mexican-American immigrants back to Mexico -
Robert Taft
Co-operating with conservation democrat and led the conservative that opposed the new deal The Republican gains in the 1938 elections combined with the creation of the conservative had stopped the expansion of New Deal
Calling for economy in government a balanced budget and less centralization of power in the nations capital -
Francis Townsend
Dr.Francis T was an American physician who devised the Townsend Plan, a popular proposal for state-funded old-age pensions
Planned to end the Great Depression by opening job for young people -
Dustbowl
Human Causes:
Farmers had been plowing the grass lands for crops in central plains & trapping underground water supplies
Natural Causes:
10 year drought occurred. Farmers had to move to California because their harvest has been destroyed the wind carried the topsoil away this is why it was called the Dustbowl -
William Randolph Hearst
Hearst's reputation suffered in the 1930's as his policy/views changed in 1932. He was a major supporter of FDR his newspaper throughout 1933
Hearst broke with FDR in the Spring of 1935 when the president vetoed the pat man bonus bill -
FDR first term
Roosevelt's famous quote "Only thing we have to fear is fear itself" addressing himself cause if the economic crisis and its moral, dimensions , Roosevelt placed blame squarely on the greed and shortsightedness of bankers and businessman
He defeated Herbert Hoover
Major issue Americans facing widespread unemployment
Great Depression continued the nations economy continued wheeze -
The Gold Standard
Gold and silver were traded
Use of the gold standard came to an end in 1933 when president Roosevelt an executive order outlawing the ship to gold but Roosevelt wanted people to rely on paper money (fiat money)
To expand to money supply and stimulated economic activity -
20th Amendment
Sets the dates at which Federal Government elected offices end, also defines who succeeds the president if the president dies
Cause: Elected officials, who had been replaced were holding office longer than was necessary called "lame duck"
Effect: Mire the new president from taking in office in February back to January to lesson lame duck period -
Tennessee Valley Authority
it was created by congressional in May 1933 to provide flood control, electricity generator and economic development during the depression
This was president Roosevelt's New Deal for reform
Largest public power company in the U.S was 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 a form of socialism -
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 gov even paid for farmers not to grow crops so prices would not go up and help the land -
FDIC
Purpose was to provide stability to the economy and the failing system
Insured bank deposits so that people wont lose their saving in bank failure
This was Roosevelt's Reform of the "New Deal" -
Securities and Exchange Commission
The purpose of the SEC is protecting investors from dangerous or illegal financial practices of fraud
The issue it addressed was the fact that no one was watching the stock markets
The effects of his passage was to prevent another stock market collapse; In doing so it evolved our markets into high-tech trading centers -
21st Amendment
Many people had simply refused to accept the ban on alcohol
Even president Harding drank alcohol in the white house
Prohibition was refused by Twenty-first amendment
The experience of prohibition demonstrated that unpopular laws are sometimes unenforced -
New Deal
He tried to stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering and aimed to restore some measure of dignity and prosperity to many Americans through this deal
The federal government helped care for dependent children's and the disables, and the federal gov built dams along Tennessee River that controlled flooding and generated inexpensive hydroelectric power for the people in the area -
Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath is an american realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939
An okie is a resident native or cultural descent of Oklahoma
The route 66 (U.S.66 or route 66) the main Hwy in the 1930s that connected the great plains to California
Migrants went to California in hopes to find jobs and places to work when they got there the jobs were taken -
Social Security Act
In 1935 the Social Security Act was created for old age unemployed people who cant help there self's the SSA was part of the 3Rs of the new deal that "FOR" put in place because of the great depression -
Huey Long
U.S Senator and former governor of Louisiana Huey Long promised to give each american family an income of $5000 a year to be paid for by taxing the rich
Long was assassinated before he was able to mount his campaign against FDR -
Judicial Procedures Reform Bill
The reform bill was frequently called the"court packing plan"was a legislative initiative 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 justice then to bring in several new justice 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's abilities to push legislation through direct public appeal -
Return to Normalcy
Warren Hardig's "Return to Normalcy" (before WW1) b/c "America first" campaigned which encouraged industrialization & a strong economy, independent of foreign influence
He supported isolationism
He wanted the U.S to focus on peace firm production and prosperity (better life) BANK RUN a large # of customers of a bank or other financial intuition withdraw their deposits simultaneously
Bank failure when a bank is unable to meet obligation to its deposit of other creditors b/c insolvent
