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Dorothea was a photographer, mostly known for her photos concerning the suffering of families during the great depression.
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Known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance, Langston was one of the original Jazz poets.
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5.2%
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Begining with the New York Stock Exchange, many banks and people began to lose money in 1929. By the mid 1930's so many people were in debt that almost everybody was living in poverty.
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4.9%
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During the great depression, many people believed getting rid of immagrants would help the economy by giving white people jobs. By the end of the great depression, around 35,000 Mexicans had been deported to Mexico. Many of these were legal immagrants.
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7.9%
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23.6%
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With so much economical crisis, the current president, Franklin D. Roosevelt, put in new acts called "The New Deal" that prevented people from spiraling into poverty in the future.
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In 1933, FDIC was created. FDIC is basically a program that keeps peoples money safe in banks and things.
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Franklin was the 32nd president of the U.S. He is very well known for all his economical changes to help keep people out of poverty. For example, he invented the Social Security plan.
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Tenessee Valley Authority was put into place during the Great Depression in order to help regulate things like flood control and navigation.
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Inacted in 1934, the SEC (Security Exchange Cooperation) makes sure that all security laws are followed in exchange.
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Begining in 1934 and lasting well through the 30's, the dust bowl was a time period where America and Canada were badly affectedin their famrs areas by many giant dust storms. People died not only from low crop supply, but also from breathing all the dust in.
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This is when the scoial security act was established, and it gave financial security to retired people.
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On this day, one of the most well known entitlement programs, the social security act, was put into place.
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"Court Packing" is the more common term for what took place in the federal government during the great depression. The goal was to add more justices to the supreme court.
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19%
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4.7%
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5.3%
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In 1965, medicare was put into action in the US. It is a program that garuntees insurance to people who are retired or disabled.
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6.2%
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5.6%
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9.3%
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9.6%
