The Depression & New Deal

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    Great Depression

    The Great Depression was national nightmare. During the 1920, Many Americans had started to equate their self-worth with their material possessions when the Great depression struck, people felt worthless. The worst unemployment rate was 25% in 1933.
  • 20 Amendment

    The 20th Amendment was written because the constitution was ratified to reduced the Amount of time james duck presidents and congressmen had to push policies before the new adminitration and legislation took over
  • Migrant mother

    -Took photos of the misery of Great Depression
    -Much of langes work was funded by federal angencies, such as the farm security adminsitration, which was established rural poverty.
  • Robert taft

    The Dust Bowl also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the U.S. and Canadian prairies during the 1930 severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion caused the phenomenon.
  • Gold Reserve Act and the Gold Standard