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-the immigration act of 1920s had opposed quotas on immigrants from europe but not from mexico or the rest of americans
-mexicans freely entered the states as long as they payed a tax and passed a heath and literary test
-many came to escape the turmoil caused by the mexican revolution
-immigrants were taking up all the jobs so hoover authorized a special mexican repatriation act to send mexican immigrants back to mexico -
1/4 of the labor force was out of work hourly wages 50 percent
-hundreds of banks failed
-the worst unemployment rate was in 1932 and it was 23.6 percent
-many were deprived of their homes or were evicted -
-legislation was already in place restricting certain ethnic groups from entering the us
-many refugees fleeing from nazi persecution were denied entry into the us
-the chinese exclusion act of 1882 prohibited chinese people from entering the us until the act was appealed and ended in 1943 -
her pictures of migrant workers helped draw attention to the desperate conditions to the desperate conditions in rural america and helped bring attention to the need of direct relief
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-the cause was for lame duck sessions
-lame duck sessions of congress in the us occurs whenever one congress meets after is where both presidents couldnt be in the same building -
-he defeated herbert hoover in the 1932 election
-the greatest problem was the widespread of unemployment due to the stockmarket crash of 1932 and the dustbowl
-promised america a new deal -
-is the federal deposit insurance corporation
-independant agency of the us federal government preserves public convidence in the banking system -roosevelt signed the banking act in 1933 which established fdic -
-was passed in 1933
-repeated the 18th amendment
-caused by americans concern about the adverse of drinking
-brought an end to an era of national prohibition of alcohol -
-gold and silver provided two accepted forms of exchange
-came to an end in 1933 when roosevelt issued an executive order outlawing the ownership of gold
-roosevelt wanted people to rely on paper money in order to expand the money supply to simulate economic activity -
-in the presocial security era almost no one had any reliable cash generating form of retirement security
-an act to provide for general welfare by enabling the states to make more adequate provisions for aged people and mainly others needing assistance
-helped elderly people get checks for retirement -
-in 1936 the supreme court declaired the aaa consitutional
-was a us federal law of the new deal era which reduced agricural productions by paying farmers
-purpose was to reduce crops surplus -
-was to obtain favorable ruling regarding new deal legislation
-add more justices to the us supreme court
-congress saw it as unconstitutional
-stepped passed presidential power -
-author was john steinbeck
-main road of exodus for those feeling from harsh economic and envirnmental conditions of the dust bowl
-they moved to find new means of survival
-mild climats allowed long growing seasons in california and steady income
-owned farms -
-responsible for production of proallied, anti axis propoganda such as movies and posters and to make citizens aware of how they could help in the war effort
-activities for producing it own radio, programs, released its own newreels and required that all movies produced during the war contribute to the war effort -
-responsible for production of proallied, anti axis propoganda such as movies and posters and to make citizens aware of how they could help in the war effort
-activities for producing it own radio, programs, released its own newreels and required that all movies produced during the war contribute to the war effort -
-responsible for production of proallied, anti axis propoganda such as movies and posters and to make citizens aware of how they could help in the war effort
-activities for producing it own radio, programs, released its own newreels and required that all movies produced during the war contribute to the war effort -
-responsible for production of proallied, anti axis propoganda such as movies and posters and to make citizens aware of how they could help in the war effort
-activities for producing it own radio, programs, released its own newreels and required that all movies produced during the war contribute to the war effort -
-responsible for production of proallied, anti axis propoganda such as movies and posters and to make citizens aware of how they could help in the war effort
-activities for producing it own radio, programs, released its own newreels and required that all movies produced during the war contribute to the war effort -
-responsible for production of proallied, anti axis propoganda such as movies and posters and to make citizens aware of how they could help in the war effort
-activities for producing it own radio, programs, released its own newreels and required that all movies produced during the war contribute to the war effort -
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-was created to watch over the stock market to prevent froud and guard against another stock market crash
-part of the reform in the 2r's
-required public corporations to register their stock sales -
-was orginized to help us recover from depression
-provided termporary help to suffering
-targeted the cause of the depression and sought to prevent crisis