Week Five Great Depression and New Deal

  • Dorothea Lange

    Migrant mother is one of a series of photograph her subject are homeless women their children & migrant workers
    Her work was funded by federal agencies such as the farm security administration
    The editor then told the federal authorities whom urged the government to rush the camp to prevent starvation
  • Tenesee Valley Authority

    It was created by congressional in may 1933 to provide flood control electricity generator and economic development during the depression
    -this was the presidents new deal for reform -largest public power company in the us was the 5th largest river system provides electricity for Tennessee but also parts of Kentucky and Alabama.
  • Security and Exchange Commision- S.E.C

    It was created to watch over the stock market, prevent fraud, and guard against another stock market collapse.
    Part of the Reform in the 3 R's of the New Deal.
    Required public corporations to register their stock sales.
  • Social Security Act

    In the pre–Social Security era, almost no one had any reliable cash-generating form of retirement security.
    Ii is an act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the States to make more adequate provision for aged people, and many others needing assistance.
    The social security act is intended to provide a base of protection, and benefits are financed primarily through dedicated payroll taxes paid by workers and their employers.
  • Judicial Procedure Reform Bill

    The reform bill was frequently called "court packing plan"was a legislative initiative proposed by us president Franklin D Roosevelt to add more justice to the US supreme courts
    The bill was to increase the number of US 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 abilities to push legislation through direct appeal