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Chapter 21 and 22 Reading Flashcards

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roaring 20’s

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republican decade; supported republicans by electing Hoover

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republican presidents

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led the nation and took credit for the good economic times

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American farmers

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borrowed money to buy land and machinery to increase the harvest yields during WW1; still producing large harvests; problems worsened during the depression

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demand for American crops

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fell after the war

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cheap food

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flooded the markets lowering farmers profits and making debt harder to pay off

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industrial workers

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wages rose steadily; did better than farmers

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owners of companies

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did even better than industrial workers; became very rich

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1929 percentage

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wealthiest .01% of the population earned about the same amount of money as the bottom 42%

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easy credit meant many workers

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took advantage to buy products; disguised the problem and helped the economy grow

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1929 too much money was

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being poured into stock speculation

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investors

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borrowed money to buy stocks then sold them to turn a quick profit

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inflating the prices of stocks

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led to frantic buying and selling; unrealistic levels

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sharp drop in stock prices

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led to panicked selling

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black Tuesday

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Oct 29, 1929; stock market crashes and stock prices bottomed

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stock market crash marked the beginning

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of the Great Depression

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the Great Depression

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period lasting from 1929 to 1941; US economy faltered and unemployment soared; thousands of banks closed and many businesses failed; cities and minorities hit hardest

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Hawley-Smoot tariff

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government tried to boost the sale of American goods; placed high taxes on foreign goods; result was closed markets and unsold goods; destroyed international trade

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bread line

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people lined up for handouts from charities or public agencies

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Hoovervilles

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makeshift shantytowns of tents and shacks built on public land or vacant lots

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tenant farmers

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working for bigger land owners rather than for themselves

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severe drought and over farming

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turned soil to dust on the Great Plains; made farming impossible and creating huge dust storms

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dust bowl

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high plain regions in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, and Colorado; many farmers left and moved to California for work

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Okies

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dust bowl refugees from California

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African American sharecroppers

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thrown off the land they were working on and migrated north

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repatriations

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government efforts to send Mexico immigrants and their American children back to Mexico; southwest white Americans urged it

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Herbert Hoover

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president; struggled to respond to the nation’s problems; felt the government shouldn’t interfere with what he thought was the natural downswing of the business cycle; volunteerism; later called in the military on the bonus army

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volunteerism

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Hoover asked business leaders not to cut prices and wages; government to simultaneously reduce taxes, lower interest rates, and create public-works programs; wealthy to give to poor through charities

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localism

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asked the state and local governments to provide more jobs and relief measures; businesses instead cut wages and laid off workers

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towns, states, and charities

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didn’t have the resources to respond to the crisis; charities ran low on money

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trickle-down economics

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government would provide loans to bankers so they in turn could lend money to businesses; then hire workers, leading to the increase production and consumption and the end of the depression

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reconstruction finance corporation

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RFC; provide loans to businesses; businesses that did receive loans didn’t always use them to hire workers

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Hoover Dam

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Colorado River; brought much-needed employment to the southwest in the early 1930’s

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bonus army

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group of almost 20 thousand unemployed WW1 veterans; marched in protest and set up camps in Washington, DC; wanted early payment of a bonus promised them; congress agreed; Hoover vetoed

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general Douglas MacArthur

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led army troops against the veterans

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FDR

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won the presidency by more than 7 million votes; lost the use of his legs to polio; congress passed 15 bills; used the legislation passed by the 2nd new deal to accomplish the goals of promoting the general welfare and protecting citizen’s rights

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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became FDR’s eyes and ears during his presidency; transformed the office of the First Lady to a politically active position; traveled extensively and advocated equal justice for all

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first new deal

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first 15 bills; 3 goals; relief, recovery, and reform; brought fundamental changes to the nation

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relief

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referred to improving the immediate hardships of the depression; immediate effort involved the government paying farmers subsides to reduce production; move that helped raise farm prices

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recovery aimed at

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achieving a long-term economic recovery

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reform

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designed to prevent further depressions

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Tennessee valley authorities

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TVA; build dams in the Tennessee river valley to control floods and generate electric power, and the creation of the CCC

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civillian conservation corps

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CCC: provided jobs for more than 2 million young men; replanted forests, built trails, dug irrigation ditches, and fought fires

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recovery efforts; 2

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national recovery administration; NRA; public works administration; PWA

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national recovery administration

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NRA; developed industry codes that set minimum wages for workers and minimum prices for goods

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public works administration

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PWA; created millions of new jobs, constructing bridges, dams, power plants, and government buildings

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federal deposit insurance corporation

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FDIC; insured bank deposits

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securities exchange commission

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SEC; regulated the stock market

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FDIC and SEC

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reformed the nations financial institutions

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some Americans

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thought the new deal made the government too powerful

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other Americans

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thought the new deal didn’t provide enough help to citizens; strongest criticism came from individuals with roots in the Populist movement

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Father Charles Coughlin

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Roman Catholic priest who aired increasingly angry views on a weekly radio show; Roman Catholic officials forced Coughlin to stop his broadcasts

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Senator Huey Long

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Louisiana; proposed placing high taxes on wealthy Americans so their income could be redistributed to the poor

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works progress administration

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WPA; provide new jobs doing public works; provided programs to employ displaced artists; government paid for programs by spending money it didn’t have; allowed people of varied backgrounds to get to know one another, breaking down regional and ethnic prejudice

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John Maynard Keynes

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British economist; argued that such deficit spending was needed to end the depression

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social security act

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created pension system for retirees, as well as unemployment insurance for workers who lost their jobs and aid for the disabled

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new programs and laws aided

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farmers and industrial workers

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rural electrification administration

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helped bring electricity to farms

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Wagner act

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gave workers the right to collective bargaining

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collective bargaining

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employers had to negotiate with unions about hours, wages, and other working conditions

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fair labor standards act

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established a minimum wage and a maximum number of hours for the workweek; outlawed child labor

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congress of industrial organizations

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CIO; established to organize workers in major industries; members staged a sit-down strike against General Motors refusing to leave the workplace until a settlement had been reached

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success in sit-down against General Motors

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led to other strikes, which improved wages and working conditions for union members

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supreme court

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FDR faced struggles; struck down a number of the key laws in the new deal

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court packing

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dilute the power of the 6 justices; FDR asked congress to add 6 new justices to the 9 member court

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new economic downturn in 1938

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FDR chose not to try to force more reforms through congress

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secretary of labor Frances Perkins

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first female cabinet member; played a leading role in establishing social security and minimum wages

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African American leaders

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FDR invited to advise him

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black cabinet

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unofficial advisers of FDR

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Mary McLeod Bethune

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member of the black cabinet; powerful champion of racial equality

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Indian new deal

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program to help American Indians by providing funding for the construction of new schools and hospitals

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Indian reorganization act

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restored tribal control of American Indian lands

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bureau of Indian affairs

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stopped discouraging the practice of traditional American Indian customs

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new deal coalition

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FDR united a culturally diverse group of Americans into a strong political force; gave the Democratic Party a sizable majority in both houses of congress; unify the nation

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new deal programs increased

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size and scope of the federal government like never before

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government assumed the responsibility for

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providing for the welfare of children and the poor, elderly, sick, disabled, and unemployed; led to the rise of a welfare state

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expanding role of the government included

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creation of many federal agencies; gave the executive branch much more power

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22nd amendment

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limited the president to 2 consecutive terms in office

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large network radios

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dominated the airwaves

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movies were a form of

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escapism during the Great Depression as American sought relief from their concern

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the wizard of oz

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promised wearily audiences that their dreams really could come true

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many films reflected

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public’s distrust of big businesses and the government

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films of Frank Capra

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celebrated American idealism and the triumph of the common man over adversity

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fireside radio chats

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FDR used; to explain his new deal programs

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national radio networks broadcast

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dramas, comedies, soap operas, and variety shows

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war of the worlds movie

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many people believed the martians were actually invading

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music

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swing music played by big bands

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blues singers

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focused on the harsh conditions faced by African Americans

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Woody Guthrie

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wrote ballads about the Oakies

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federal art project

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government funded arts for the first time; artists painted huge murals on walls

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Dorothea Lange

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documented the plight of America’s farmers

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writers produced

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novels featuring working-class heroes

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the grapes of wrath

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John Steinbeck; fictional Joad family from the Oklahoma dust bowl to California

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Lilian Hellman

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wrote several plays featuring strong roles for women as well as scnreeplans for movies

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