Week 5

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    Huey Long

    -opposed the New Deal because he believed that Roosevelt plan to help the American economy after the great depression no adequately help citizens living in poverty
    -"share our wealth" plan also known as Huey Long's a program designed to provide a decent standard of living to all Americans by spreading the nations wealth among the people
  • Immigration During the Great Depression

    -immigration act opposed quotas on immigrants from Europe but not from Mexico
  • Dust Bowl

    -farmers had been plowing the grass lands for crops in central plains and trapping under ground water supplies natural causes were 10 year drought was occurring
    -farmers had to make to Cali because their harvest was being destroyed
    -the wind carried the top soil away, giving the name "dust bowl"
  • FDIC

    -is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation