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stock market crash
main causes
-tariff and war debt policies that cut down the foreign market for Americans goods -
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The great depression
-During the peak of the great depression the 10 west unemployment rate was 15% until the US entry of ww2
-Due to the lack of jobs people would have to live up to free bread and soup, most people also lost their homes.
-FDR created new jobs with the new deal and the 3rs,reform recovery relief . -
Immigration during the depression
-Tension grew towards immigrants and migrant workers, both Mexican and European due to the lack of jobs and dust bowl
-After a certain amount of time during the depression the us stopped allowing immigrants into the country
-The police started deporting Mexicans and Europeans immigrants and in some rare occasions farmers in the south were deported because they were mistaken for immigrants -
Migrant mother
Ms Lange during her career in 1930"s
-she wanted to use the power of the image to effect political change
-Many american lost their homes and family in the depression.People were homeless and went hungry
-millions depended on soup kitchens for their food
-The last photo "migrant Mother" was published in San Francisco march 10,1936
-effects: Was funded by federal agencies,farm security administration helped draw attention to the desperate conditions in rural america during the great depression. -
FDR first term
-Roosevelt's famous quote "only thing we have to fear is fear itself" addressing himselfnto cause of the economics crisis and is more demensions ,Roosevelt's placed blame squarely on the greed and shortsightedness of Bunkers and businessman.
-He defeated Herbert Hoover
-major issue Americans facing widespread unemployment
-Great depression continued the nations economy continued to wheeze. -
20th amendment
-The 20th amendment was to move the anuaguration up for February to jenuary . 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 time in an office Or position will soon end and does little as the president . -
AAA (Arlington Adjustment Act )
-its purpose was to help farmers by reducing production of staple crops,taxes forced farmers to cut amounts they marketed .
- the government even paid for farmers not to grow 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 the new deal .
-The federal government helped care for dependent children and the disabled,so president Roosevelt helped through the 3rs : relief -helped the unemployed, recovery-helped by giving money , and refers-helped the defects of the economy -
21st Amendment
-The 21st amendment repealed prohibition
-The 21st amendment was ratified because many people had simply refused to accept the ban on alcohol
-President Harding drank alcohol in the white house during the prohibition. -
Judicial procedures reform Bill
-The reform bill was frequently called the "court packing"
-was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S supreme courts
-The bill was to increase the number of US supreme court justice then to bring in several new justices who would change the balance of opinion on the court .
-Roosevelt failed many times at attempting to pass the law , its failure exposed the limits of Roosevelt abilities to push legislation through defect public appeal -
Robert Taft
-Senate in 1938, he opposed Roosevelt's new deal because he felt it was socialism
-His alternative plan was calling for economy in the government, a balanced budget and a less centralized of power in the nations capitol -
Grapes of wrath
-The author was John Steinbeck, published in 1939
-Okie's;farm families from southern plains who migrated to California in 1939
-People think they were migrating to California for better future but reality is its hard to find jobs.
-Route 66 was the path migrant farmers used to get to California from the dust dowl area . -
Dust bowl
Human causes-Farmers have been tilling the great plains,cutting the grasses covering the topsoil.
Natural causes-droughts dried up crops,which turned soil into dust .
Results of the causes-Lasting for a decade,heavy winds carried topsoil across hundreds of miles,burying homes&destroying harvests
Effects-Not able to grow enough to pay their bills,farmers were faced to abandon their farms.Many farmers moved west to California,&found work as farm hands -
Gold reserve Act and thge gold standard
- The act was to restrict the private use of gold , transfer ownership of all momotary gold to the US treasury,prohibited the Treasury and financial institutions from reedeming dollars for gold . and regulated the use of gold within the US. -It addressed the no reedeming dollars for gold because before the act people would go to the bank and ask for loads of money in gold . -The long term effects is that people still cannot go into banks and get loans for gold and most gold goes to US treasury.
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Return normalcy
-womens haldings "retun to normalcy"