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The Great depression and the New Deal
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Dorthea Lange
An influential American documentary photographer and photojournalist, best known for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Lange's photographs humanized the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography -
Langston Hughes
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. Hughes is best known for his work during the Harlem Renaissance. -
Unemployment rates for the years 1920, 1921, 1929, 1932,1938, 1942, 1950, 1975, 1990, 2009, Today
2.5%
4.0%
5.2%
3.6%
3.7%
3.9%
5.3%
8.5%
5.6%
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Entitlement Programs and Solvency
Solvency is a term given to a goverment that has lost all of its money or basically went broke. this term was given to many governments ideas during the great depression. it is not common very much now because if so, the public would scared of yet another depression. -
The deportation of Mexican Americans in the Great Depression
The Mexican Repatriation refers to a mass migration that took place between 1929 and 1939, when as many as 500,000 people of Mexican descent were forced or pressured to leave the US.[1] The event, carried out by American authorities, took place without due process.[2] Some 35,000 were deported, amongst many hundreds of thousands of other immigrants who were deported during this period. -
The Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in 1930 and lasted until the late 1930s or middle 1940s. -
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
A United States government corporation operating as an independent agency created by the Glass–Steagall Act of 1933. guarantees the safety of deposits in member banks, up to $250,000 per depositor per bank as of January 2012. it was a way of the government convincing that banks were still good to use. the public uses banks to this day because of FDIC. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
A Democrat and the only American president elected to more than two terms, he facilitated a durable coalition that realigned American politics for decades. A central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic depression and total war. -
Relief, Recovery, Reform
These were FDR three main topics when he became president. relief was first for stoping the economy of going down any more. recovery was to start building it back up. the new deals so to say, like making jobs. recover was to prevent it from happening again. this slogan was FDR's catch frase so to say during the great Depression. -
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
A federal owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression. TVA's service area covers most of Tennessee, portions of Alabama, Mississippi, and Kentucky, and small slices of Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of economic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936. The programs were in response to the Great Depression, and focused on what historians call the "3 Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform. -
Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
A federal agency which holds the main responsibility for enforcing the federal securitiy laws and regulating the securities industry, the nation's stock and options exchanges, and other electronic securities markets in the United States. this was created to regulate the stock market and to hope that the great depretion will never again. -
The Dut Bowl
A period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands in the 1930s, particularly in 1934 and 1936. this storm made many people love away from there homes a adapt to new farming techniques so that it doesn't happen again. -
Social Security & Social Security Administration (SSA)
This was created to help the unemployed and the diabled. everyone gets social security when they get old a retired. mainly at the age of 65. SSA s an independent agency of the United States federal government that administers of Social Security. This agency's only job is to distribute social security. -
Judicial Interpretation during the New Deal
The judical branch in the government interprets the constitution, and during the New Deal. -
Medicare & Medicaid
Medicaid and Medicare are two governmental programs that provide medical and health-related services to specific groups of people in the United States. Medicare is a social insurance program that serves more than 44 million enrollees. Medicaid is a social welfare (or social protection) program that serves about 40 million people.
