week 5

  • Robert Taft

    -Reason for oppossiton was the New deal had “socialist trends”
    -alternative plan was to get economy in the government, a balanced budget, and less centralization of power in the nation’s capital.
  • immigration during the great depression 1930

    -immigration act passed quotas on mmigrants fromeurop but not from Mexico
    -Mexicans freely entered the U.S. as long as they paid tax and passed a test
    -many came to escape turmoil cased by the mex revolution
    -immigrants were taking all the jobs so hoover passed a Mexican reputation act to send them back to mexico
  • migrant mother of 1930

    -her photographs of migrant workers homeless, women,an children helped draw attention to the desperate conditions in rural America and helped to bring attention to the need for direct relief
  • 21st amendment

    -it passed in 1933
    -repeated the 18th amendment
    cause- Americans concerned about the adverse of drinking
    effect- brought an end to the era of national probation of alcohol in america
    -even president harding drank alcohol in the white house
  • S.E.C security & exchange commission

    -was created to watch over the stock market prevent fraud & guard against another stock market crash
    -part of the reform in the 3R's
    -required public corporations to register their stock sales
  • AAA- agricultural adjustment ads

    -in 1936 the supreme court declared the AAA constitutional
    -was a US federal law of the new deal era which reduced agricultural productions by paying farmers subsideries not to plant on part of their land & to kill excess livestock
    -its purpose was to reduce crops surplus & therefor effectively raise the value of crops part of recovery in the 3R'S