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With the depression of 1920-1921 the unemployment rate rose rapidly from 5.2 to 8.7 percent
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Relief, Recovery, and Reform was used to help the people during the 1929 - 1945 time period. During this time, people were unemployed and poor
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U.S. government looked for ways to ease the country's financial hardship. In order to make more jobs available, the government deported more than 500,000
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James Mercer Langston Hughes was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist. He was one of the earliest innovators of the then-new literary art form jazz poetry.
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New Deal for the American people. Roosevelt worked quickly upon his election to deliver the New Deal, an unprecedented number of reforms addressing the catastrophic effects of the Great Depression.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century
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is an independent agency created by the U.S. Congress to maintain stability and public confidence
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Even by Depression standards, the Tennessee Valley was in sad shape in 1933. Thirty percent of the population was affected by malaria
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Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration.
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or the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie
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The judical branch in the government interprets the constitution, and during the New Deal,
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The Great Depression, an immense tragedy that placed millions of Americans out of work, was the beginning of government involvement in the economy and in society as a whole.
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Many of the federal and state programs that provide income security to U.S. families have their roots
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also reinforced the employment-based health insurance system. By the 1960s, it was clear the system of private health insurance in the United States was well established and in no danger of being dismantled.
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Holding Company Act of 1935, Investment Company Act of 1940, Investment Advisers Act of 1940
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Your full retirement age is 65 and 6 months. Remember, the earliest a person can start receiving Social Security retirement benefits will remain