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immigration during the great depression
-the immigration act of 1920s had opposed quotas on immigrants from europe but not from mexico or the rest of americans
-mexicans freely entered the states as long as they payed a tax and passed a heath and literary test
-many came to escape the turmoil caused by the mexican revolution
-immigrants were taking up all the jobs so hoover authorized a special mexican repatriation act to send mexican immigrants back to mexico -
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great depression
1/4 of the labor force was out of work hourly wages 50 percent
-hundreds of banks failed
-the worst unemployment rate was in 1932 and it was 23.6 percent
-many were deprived of their homes or were evicted -
immigration during the great depression
-legislation was already in place restricting certain ethnic groups from entering the us
-many refugees fleeing from nazi persecution were denied entry into the us
-the chinese exclusion act of 1882 prohibited chinese people from entering the us until the act was appealed and ended in 1943 -
migrant mother
her pictures of migrant workers helped draw attention to the desperate conditions to the desperate conditions in rural america and helped bring attention to the need of direct relief -
20th ammendment
-the cause was for lame duck sessions
-lame duck sessions of congress in the us occurs whenever one congress meets after is where both presidents couldnt be in the same building -
franklin d roosevelt
-he defeated herbert hoover in the 1932 election
-the greatest problem was the widespread of unemployment due to the stockmarket crash of 1932 and the dustbowl
-promised america a new deal -
FDIC
-is the federal deposit insurance corporation
-independant agency of the us federal government preserves public convidence in the banking system -roosevelt signed the banking act in 1933 which established fdic -
21st ammendment
-was passed in 1933
-repeated the 18th amendment
-caused by americans concern about the adverse of drinking
-brought an end to an era of national prohibition of alcohol -
gold reserve act and the gold standard
-gold and silver provided two accepted forms of exchange
-came to an end in 1933 when roosevelt issued an executive order outlawing the ownership of gold
-roosevelt wanted people to rely on paper money in order to expand the money supply to simulate economic activity -
social security act 1935
-in the presocial security era almost no one had any reliable cash generating form of retirement security
-an act to provide for general welfare by enabling the states to make more adequate provisions for aged people and mainly others needing assistance
-helped elderly people get checks for retirement -
agricultural adjustment act
-in 1936 the supreme court declaired the aaa consitutional
-was a us federal law of the new deal era which reduced agricural productions by paying farmers
-purpose was to reduce crops surplus -
judicial procedures reform bill 1937
-was to obtain favorable ruling regarding new deal legislation
-add more justices to the us supreme court
-congress saw it as unconstitutional
-stepped passed presidential power -
grapes of wrath
-author was john steinbeck
-main road of exodus for those feeling from harsh economic and envirnmental conditions of the dust bowl
-they moved to find new means of survival
-mild climats allowed long growing seasons in california and steady income
-owned farms -
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us office of war information
-responsible for production of proallied, anti axis propoganda such as movies and posters and to make citizens aware of how they could help in the war effort
-activities for producing it own radio, programs, released its own newreels and required that all movies produced during the war contribute to the war effort -
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us office of war information
-responsible for production of proallied, anti axis propoganda such as movies and posters and to make citizens aware of how they could help in the war effort
-activities for producing it own radio, programs, released its own newreels and required that all movies produced during the war contribute to the war effort -
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us office of war information
-responsible for production of proallied, anti axis propoganda such as movies and posters and to make citizens aware of how they could help in the war effort
-activities for producing it own radio, programs, released its own newreels and required that all movies produced during the war contribute to the war effort -
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us office of war information
-responsible for production of proallied, anti axis propoganda such as movies and posters and to make citizens aware of how they could help in the war effort
-activities for producing it own radio, programs, released its own newreels and required that all movies produced during the war contribute to the war effort -
Period: to
us office of war information
-responsible for production of proallied, anti axis propoganda such as movies and posters and to make citizens aware of how they could help in the war effort
-activities for producing it own radio, programs, released its own newreels and required that all movies produced during the war contribute to the war effort -
Period: to
us office of war information
-responsible for production of proallied, anti axis propoganda such as movies and posters and to make citizens aware of how they could help in the war effort
-activities for producing it own radio, programs, released its own newreels and required that all movies produced during the war contribute to the war effort -
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sec security and exchange commission 1934
-was created to watch over the stock market to prevent froud and guard against another stock market crash
-part of the reform in the 2r's
-required public corporations to register their stock sales -
the new deal
-was orginized to help us recover from depression
-provided termporary help to suffering
-targeted the cause of the depression and sought to prevent crisis