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Promised to give each American family 5,000, taxing the rich

Promised to give each American family 5,000, taxing the rich. Hoovervilles. New Deal measures simplified. Sent Mexican-Americans back to Mexico. Overproduction, speculation, shaky banking, restricted international trade. Causes of the Great Depression. Dust Bowl.

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Promised to give each American family 5,000, taxing the rich

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  1. Promised to give each American family 5,000, taxing the rich Hoovervilles New Deal measures simplified Sent Mexican-Americans back to Mexico Overproduction, speculation, shaky banking, restricted international trade Causes of the Great Depression Dust Bowl Radio programs FDR used to explain his plan to Americans President at start of Great Depression; didn’t do enough to end it Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Eleanor Roosevelt Gave young men jobs planting trees and cleaning forests FDR’s eyes and ears; supported poor; political activist Herbert Hoover Attempt to add new appointments of Justices over the age of 70 Court Packing Scheme Stock market crash of 1929

  2. Securities and Exchange Commission Hired artists, writers, musicians, to create works of art Effects of the Great Depression Result of tapped water supplies, heavy winds, and drought Helped workers collectively bargain with employers Wagner Act Wrote about Oakies; wrote The Grapes of Wrath Agricultural Adjustment Acts Federal Emergency Relief Act Hired millions on “make work” projects Paid farmers to produce less to increase prices Fireside chats John Steinbeck Event that signaled the beginning of the Great depression Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Insures bank deposits if banks fail

  3. Pouring money into the economy to get it working again Built dams; controlled floods; produced electricity Tennessee Valley Authority Said that Congress couldn’t give the President more power than Constitution grants National Recovery Administration Oakies Black Tuesday Set production limits, standard prices, and minimum wage October 29,1929; date of stock market crash Schechter vs US Created jobs building schools, roads, courts, post offices, and bridges Person buys 10% of stock; rest paid by stock broker Public Works Administration Shanty towns of homeless or unemployed Relief, Recovery, Reform Mexican Repatriation Act

  4. Took photographs showing misery of Great Depression Priming the pump Dorothea Lange Provided unemployment insurance and old age pensions Government more involved in business and personal life Brain Trust Lasting impact of the New Deal Farmers who left Oklahoma for California Group of talented advisors to FDR Social Security Act Period when most of FDR’s New Deal Policies got passed First Hundred Days (of FDR’s presidency) Margin Business failures, unemployment, bank failures, foreclosures Watched over stock market to prevent another collapse Works Progress Administration Huey Long

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