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fear of communism
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lodge did his best to "americanize" the treaty
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prohibition
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harding defats cox in presidential election
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broadcast on radio
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an attempt to stem the flow of immigrants
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darwinism in school?
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people began to fear for the price of stocks.
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construction of the hoover dam
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stock prices hit all time low as thousands scrambled to sell
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due to over farming and drought much of central america came to be known as the dust bowl
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Sent 250,000 young men to work camps to perform reforestation and conservation tasks. Removed surplus of workers from cities, provided healthy conditions for boys, provided money for families.
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Distributed millions of dollars of direct aid to unemployed workers.
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Created NRA to enforce codes of fair competition, minimum wages, and to permit collective bargaining of workers.
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Created federally insured bank deposits ($2500 per investor at first) to prevent bank failures.
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F.D.R's new deal
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Received $3.3 billion appropriation from Congress for public works projects.
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restoration of ancestral lands to tribes
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roosevelts plan included making houses more accessible and affordable.
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Regulated stock market and restricted margin buying.
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Response to critics (Dr. Townsend and Huey Long), it provided pensions, unemployment insurance, and aid to blind, deaf, disabled, and dependent children.
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Provided public works jobs at $15/week to four million workers in 1934.
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Provided part-time employment to more than two million college and high school students.
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Encouraged farmers to join cooperatives to bring electricity to farms. Despite its efforts, by 1940 only 40% of American farms were electrified.
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Protected farmers from price drops by providing crop subsidies to reduce production, educational programs to teach methods of preventing soil erosion.
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the beginning of WWII