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The Great Depression
-The great depression was a national nightmare during the 1920s many americans started to equate their selfworth with their material possesions -
20th Amendment
-Was written because the constitutional was ratified to reduce the amount of time lame duck presidents and congress men had to push policies before the new administration and legislators took over -
Robert taft
- Taft was the senates main opponent of Franklin Roosevelt 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 and business restore the nations economy instead of replying upon government programs to end the great depression
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The gold reserve act
-Out lawed most possessions of gold forcing industrials to sell it to the treasure after which it was stored in the u.s at fort knox -
Migrant mother
-Ms. lange was hired by the government to photograph effects of the great depression
-her images revealed her compassion for the poor the photographs of migrant workers helped draw attention to desperate conditions in rural america and helped the underscore the need for direct relief