Week 5

By arleneprieto

  • Robert Taft

    • Robert Taft was a conservative American Politician ,Statesman & Presidention hopeful
      -Taft was the senates main opponent of Franklin Roosevelt's new Domestic Policies called "The New Deal" -He denounce the socialism trends of the New Deal

  • Migrant mother

    Her photographs of migrant works help draw attention to the desperate conditions in rural America & helped to bring attention the need for direct relief

  • Tennessee Valley

    • Built 21 Government owned dams along the River
    • Controlled floods & produced electricity *Some feared it as a form of socialism
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    New Deal

    • Roosevelt blamed the Bankers selfishness & financiers for current crisis * Roosevelt pused through legislation which is hard in less critical times *All the important bills submitted in these 1st 100 days Roosevelt explained these "New Deal " Measures as the three R's Relief ,Recovery , Reform ,Change

  • Grapes of Wrath

    Author: John Steinbeck
    "Oakies" moving from Oklahoma to California increased the average intelligence of both states also meant scam.
    Route 66 is refereed to the mother road
    They hoped to find jobs . Once in California they find out jobs are scarce and wages are low. the exiles find Weed patch camp

  • Dust Bowl

    • Natural causes - Droughts every so often heavy winds . *Human Causes - tilling the great plan , cutting the grasses covering the top soil & tapping underground watter supplies .
    • Effect - money was tight ,people lost there lands due to not being to pay the Bank . Crops did not grow in central Am . *Result-men became discouraged they abandoned their families womes canned food & sewed clothes to support their families.
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    Great Depression

    • Effects on society ; Started the downward economic Spiral that led to bankruptcies , mass unemployment and despair -worst unemployment rate - for over a decade the unemployment rate was about 15% IN IN 1940 Albert down from the high of 25 % in 1933 -Roosevelt created a new deal using the 3 R's Relief , Recovering , Reform , this was