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Huey Long
-Long was a rollicking country lawyer who became governor of Louisiana in 1928.
-He propose against FDR at " shores of wealth plan" the poorest Americans were promised an estate worth no less than $5,000 with a $2,500 yearly minimum income guaranteed.
-He wasn't able to propose against FDR the New Deal because he was assassinated before he could it. -
The Great Depression
-During the peak of the Great Depression the 10 west unemployment rate was 15% until the U.S entry of WW2.
-Due to the lack of jobs people would have to line up for free bread and soup, most people also lost their homes.
-FDR created new jobs with the New Deal and 3 R's reform, recovery, relief. -
The Stock Market Crash
Main Causes
-Tariff and war debt polices that cut down the foreign market for American goods.
-A aisis in the farm sector
-The availability of easy credit.
-An unequal distribution of income.
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Migrant mother
Ms Lange during her career in 1930's.
-She wanted to use the power of the image to effect political change.
-May Americans lost their homes and family in the depression. People were homeless & went hungry.
-Millions depended on soup kitchens for their food
-The last photo "Migrant mother" was published in the San Francisco March 10,1936.
Effect- was funded by federal agencies form security administration helped draw attention to the desperate conditions in rural America during Great Depression -
Immigration during the depression
-Tension on screw towards immigration and migrant worker both Mexican, and European due to the lack of jobs and dust bowl.
-After a certain amount of time during the depression the U.S stopped allowing immigrants into the country.
-The police started deporting Mexican & European immigrants and in some rare occasions farmers in the south were deported because they were mistaken for immigrants. -
Franics Townsend
-Dr. Francis T was an American physician who devised the Townsend plan, a popular proposal for state-funded old-age pensions.
-Planed to end Great Depression by opening jobs for young people. -
William Randolph Hearst
-Hearst's reputation suffered in the 1930's as his polical views changed in 1932 he was a major supporter of FDR his newspapers throughout 1933.
-Hearst broke with FDR in the spring of 1935 when President voted the pat man bonus Bill. -
Dust Bowl
Human Causes
-Farmers had been plowing the grass lands for crops in central plains and trapping under ground water supplies natural causes were 10 year drought has occurring.
Farmers had to move to California because their harvest had been destroyed. The wind carried the top soil away this is why it was called the Dust Bowl. -
FDR First Term
-Roosevelt's famous quote "only thing we have to fear is fear itself" addressing himself to cause of the economic crisis and its moral dimensions, Roosevelt place blame squarely on the greed and shorts sightedness of Bankers & businessman.
-He defeated Herbert Hoover
-Major issue Americans facing widespread unemployment.
-Great Depression continued the nations economy continued to wheeze. -
Gold Reserve Act And the Gold Standard
-The act was to restrict the private use of gold, transfer ownership of all monetary gold to the US Treasury, prohibited the Treasury and financial institutions from redeeming dollars fr old, and regulated the use of gold within U.S.
-It addressed the no redeeming dollars for gold because the act people would go to the bank and ask for loads of money in gold.
-The long term effects people still cannot go into banks and get loans for gold, and most gold goes to U.S Treasury. -
20th Amendment
-The 20th Amendment wa to move the inauguration up for February to January. 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 & does little as the President. -
Agricltural Adjustment Act(AAA)
-Its purpose was to help farmers by reducing production of staple crops, taxes, forced farmers to cut amounts they marketed.
-The Gov. even paid for farmers not to grow crops so prices would not go up an help the land. -
FDIC(federal deposit insurance corporation)
-Purpose was to provide stability to the economy and the failing bank system.
-Insured bank deposits so that people wont lose their savings in bank failure.
-This was Roosevelt's reform of the "New Deal". -
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. -
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 may Americans.
-The federal gov helped care for dependent children and the disabled, Roosevelt helped through the 3 r's.
-Relief-helped the unemployment people, Recovery-helped by giving money, and Reform- helped the defects of the American economy.
-Roosevelt explained his polices in simple conversational terms known as "freeside chats" -
TVA
-The Tennessee valley authority(TVA) is a federally owned corporation in the United States to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer generation fertilizer manufacturing, and economic.
-This war part of Roosevelt's 3r's f the new deal. -
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Franklin D Roosevelt
-He defeated Herbert Hoover in the 1932 President election.
-Major issues were the cultural issues which had before dominated previous elections
-He took office during the Great Depression(1929-1939)
-The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" His meaning for this quote was that the fear they had was making things worse. -
SEC
-SEC was created to watch over the stock market, prevent Fraud and guard against other stockmarket collapse.
-Was Roosevelt's reform against the New Deal. -
Gold Reserve Act
-United states had a bi-metallic system of money.
-Silver was also traded.
-Gold standard came to an end in 1933 when Roosevelt issued an executive order outlawing the ownership of gold besides jewelry.
-Roosevelt wanted people to rely on "flat money"(Paper money) -
Judicial Procedures Reform Bill
-The reform Bill was frequently called the "court packing plan" was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S President Franklin D Roosevelt to add more justice to the U.S supreme crt.
-The Bill was to increase the number of U.S supreme crt justice than to bring in several new justices who would change the balance of opinion on the crt. Roosevelt failed may 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 was opposed Roosevelt's new deal because he felt it wa socialism.
-His alternative plan was calling for economy in government, a balanced budget, and a less centralization of power in the nation's capital. -
Grapes of Wrath
-The author was John Steinbeck published in 1939.
-Okies fa m families from southern plains who migrated to California in the 1930.
-People think the are migrating to California for better future but reality it is hard to find jobs.
-Route 66 was the path migrant farmers used to get to California from the Dust Bowl area.