The Great Depression

  • Unemployment rates for the years 1920, 1921, 1929, 1932, 1938, 1942, 1950, 1975, 1990, 2009, Today

    1920:5.221:11.729:4.232:23.638:19.042:4.750:5.375:6.390:5.6 09:9.3%TODAY:7.9%
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    The Great Depression

  • Langston Huges

    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.
  • Dust Bowl

    This dust storm accured during the great depression when tons of topsoil was blown away in the wind.This is directly caused by over farming and working of the land.
  • Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

    TVA was created by George norris in 1933, who was a senetor in Nebraska. TVA Is the nations largest public power provider, it was allowed by congress in 1933 to help with a wide range of environmental, economic and social problems.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    He was the 32 President of the US. Who was in office from March 4, 1933-April 12,1945. He is alos known by his initial FDR.
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

    This promotes US Citizens faith in the US financial sysem. It was created in 1933 to fight multiple bank failures.
  • Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)

    t was created by congress to regulate securities markets and to help protect their investers.
  • Entitlement Programs and Solvency

    Created during the Great Depression of the 1930s, Social Security was the first “entitlement” program created by the federal government.
  • Social Security & Social Security Administration

    The social security is a government independent agency that hlp distribute Social Security, consisting of Retirement, disibility, and survivors benefits
  • Dorothea Lange

    Dorothea Lange was an influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security, she took pictures of ordinary area people suffering in the depression era.
  • Judicial Interpretation during the New Deal

    The judicial Interpretation during the New Deal consealed of a legislative initiative proposed by U.S.
  • Medicare & Medicaid 25 Sep 1965

    Medicare and medicaid are two government programs the provide people wth health services.
  • Relief, Recovery, Reform

    These are three of the New Deal programs.
  • The deportation of Mexican Americans in the Great Depression

    US Citizens became overwhelmed with fear and began deporting mexicans who help job possesions that we feared kept americans from gaining economical needs.