U.S History week 5

By dsoler
  • Dorothea Lange

    Migrant mother is one of a series of photographs her subjects homeless women and children her work was funded by federal agencies that urged the government to make camps to prevent starvation
  • immigrants during the depression

    -During the Great Depression, tension towards immigrants both European and Mexican due to the lack of jobs and rush of immigration to the US
    -The US started deporting hundreds of immigrant and migrant workers in attempt to make more jobs for US citizens
    -In some cases Farmers in the south were deported because they were mistaken by police to be Mexican
  • 20th ammendment

    -Sets the dates at which federal government elected offices the end of the presidents term
    -elected officials who had been replaced
  • Tennessee Valley Authority

    Created by congress in may of 1933 to provide flood control electricity generator and economic development
  • AAA

    -the purpose was to help farmers by reducing production of staple crops
  • Judicial Procedures Reform Bill

    -The reform bill was frequently called the court packing plan was a legislative initiative proposed by US president FDR
  • Grapes of Wrath

    -the grapes of wrath is an american realist novel written by john steinback
    -an okie is a resident native of oklahoma
    -migrants went to california to seek work