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The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a national nightmare. During the 1920's, many Americans had started to equate their self-worth with their material possesions. When the Great Depression struck, people felt worthless. The worst unemployment rate was 25% in (13-15 million). when president Roosevelt came into office, his administration passed legislation that aimed to stabilize industrial and agricultural production, create jobs, and stimulate recovery. they called the 3 R's. -
20th Amendment
-20th Amendment was written because the constitution was ratified to reduce the amount of time lame duck presidents and congressmen had to push policies before the new administration and legislators took over. -
Robert Taft
-Taft was the Senate's Main opponent of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal domestic policies, he felt the New Deal Socialism.
-During his first term in the Senate. Taft criticized what he believed was the inefficiency and waste of many New Deal programs & businesses restore the nations economy instead of relying upon government programs to end the Great Depression. -
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's First term
-F.D.R. defeated Herbert Hoover in the election.
-The Great Depression
-The economy was very bad the day F.D.R. took office
-"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." the meaning of this quote is that we have nothing to fear. -
Gold Reserve act
The gold reserve act outlawed most private possesion of gold forcing individuals to sell it to the treasure after which it was stared in the us ballon de pository at fort knox normally the nationalization of a commidity would have been ahage contraversiry but the gold act was seen as a necessary step to ending the Great Depression. It shock value was also moderated by the fact hatan executive order had already made the private ownership or trading gold a criminal offense. -
Migrant Mother
Ms.Lange was hired by the government to photograph the effects of the Great Depression. Her images revealed her compassion for the poor. Her photographs of migrant workers helped draw attention to desperate conditions in rural America and helped to underscore the need for direct relief.