America In The 1930s Flashcards
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What happened in the economic depression in 1930s?
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- high levels of unemployment, poverty and homelessness
- increasing mechanisation, driving farmers off land (itinerant workers)
- banks were collapsing
- drought and over-farming
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Boom time?
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Low inflation, low unemployment and low interest rates - high standard of living
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What was Franklin D Roosevelt ‘New Deal’?
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Relief - help improve people’s lives
Recovery - begin rebuilding US industry and trade
Reform - change conditions to ensure future progress
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Who suffered the most in the 1930’s?
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Farmers
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What was the biggest form of mass entertainment in the 1920s?
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Films
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Who in the book dreamed of becoming an actress?
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Curley’s Wife
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What is the Declaration on Independence?
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All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among there are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness
