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the great depression
during the peak of the great depression the lowest unemployment
rate was 15% until the us entry of war.
due to the lack of jobs people would have to live up for free bread, soup, most people also lost their homes. -
Huey long
long was rollicking country lawyer who became governor of Louisiana he propose against FDR at ''shores of wealth plan'' the prootest american were promised an esate worth no less tha 5,000 with yearly 2,500. -
the stock market crash
main causes
tariff and war debt policies that cu t down the foreign market for american goods.
a crisis in the farm sector. -
migrant mother
ms lang during career in 1930s
she wanted to use the power of the image to effect political change.
many Americans lost their homes and family in the depression. People were homeless and wen hungry. Millions depended on soup kitchens for their food. -
immigration during the depression
tension grew towards immigrant and migrant worker both Mexican and European due to the lack of jobs and dust bowl.
after a certain amount of time doing the depression the us stopped allowin immigrants into the country -
FDR first term
Roosevelt famous quote ''only thing we have to fear is fear itself'' addressing himself to cause of the economic crisis and its moral dimensions, Roosevelt placed blame squarecy on the greed and shortsightedness of bunkers and buisnessman.
he defeated hebert hoover -
20th amendment
the 20th amendment was to move the inavguration up for feburary to janurary. so two presidents will not be in office at the same time. this period is called the ''lame duck'' period.
lame duck is an elected official whose timec in an office or position will soon end. -
21 amendment
the 21st amendment repealed prohibition
the 21st amendment was ratified because many people had simply refused to accept the ban of alcohol
-president Harding drank alcohol in the white house during the prohibition. -
AAA agriculture adjustment act
its purpose was to help farmers by reducing production of staple crops, taxes forc ed farmers to cut amounts they marketed.
the gov even paid for farmers not to grown crops so prices would not go up and help the land. -
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new deal
he tried to stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering, and aimed to restore some measure of dignity and prosperity to many americans through this new deal -
tva
the Tennessee valley authority (TVA) is a federally owned corporation in the united states to prove navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer generation.
this war part of Roosevelt 3 R's of the new deal. -
Robert Taft
he opposed roosevelts new deal because he felt it was socialism. his alternative plan was calling for economy in government, a balanced budget, and less centralization of power in the nations capital. -
grapes of wrath
the author was john Steinbeck published in 1939.
-okies farm families from southern plains who migrated to california for better future but reality is it is hard to find jobs
-route 66 was the path migrant farmers used to get to california from the dust bowl area. -
dust bowl
human causes-farmers have been tilling the great planes, cutting grass,covering the topsoil.
natural causes- droughts dried up plants, which turned into soil into dust.
results of he causes-lasting for a decade, heavy winds carried topsoil across hundreds of miles, burying homes and destroying harvest. -
return to normalacy
warren Harding ''return to normaky meaning life before war because ''america first'' campaign which encouraged industrialization and a strong economy independent of foreign influence.
Harding supported the idea of isolationism
he wanted the us to focus on peace production and prosperity