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What was the goal of the TVA (Tennessee valley authority)

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Develop the underdeveloped regions in America
They created a series of dams to control floods, prevent deforestation, and provide cheap electric power to rural countries

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What was the new deal?

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Social and economic legislation designed by Franklin Roosevelt

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The dust bowl most likely impacted farmers because

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There’s surplus was destroyed without any form of compensation

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why did some disagree with the new deal from a social point of View?

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1) social programs, possibly would never end once started leading to dependency on the government 2)contributes the national debt

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True or false, Hitler and the Nazis were voted into power

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True

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what does A on the business cycle represent

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Spark in economy, due to government, technological, or some other cause

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What does B on the business cycle represent?

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Hiring do to increase production

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What does C on the business cycle represent?

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Surplus of goods

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What does D on the business cycle represent?

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Firing due to business cuts

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what does E/a represent on the business cycle?

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Waiting for a response or a spark

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What did the CWA do?

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hired people and gave them jobs for improving roads and airports

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What did WPA do?

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employed individuals with artistic ability

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What did CCC do

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clearing forests, beaches and repairing parks

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What did AAA do?

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Paid farmers to destroy crops

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What did the SSA (Social Security act) do?

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Money for older population, not able to work

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The new deal programs helped America by

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Providing jobs that allowed Americans SSI

17
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The best argument for defective segregated area of NJ would be

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Oak tree Road

18
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why would support for communism increase in the 1930s?

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People were willing to listen to change, (always possible, when leaders “fail”)

19
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why did standard oil increase?

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Increase demand for driving consumes more gas

20
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why did Ford jump from 5 to 9?

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Industry benefits from car production

21
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sheer metal over entire six days

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Impact of car sales (metal needed to make cars)

22
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What did SEC do?

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allowed Americans to get their deposits (insured, the money and banks)

23
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What are Okies?

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Okies arm, migrant workers who went to California for work

24
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from the owners point of you, when school was removed from the equation for producing workers became

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Mundane

25
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example of skilled work in class

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Making military weapons

26
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what presented the biggest problem for business factory owners during the 1920s

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How to control ones workforce

27
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what does a revolutionary Vanguard do?

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Activate the revolution

28
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what was the Texas heartbeat law?

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A physician has a test for a fetal heartbeat or cardiac activity before performing an abortion and prohibits. Abortion is fetal heartbeat is detected.

29
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What do they call homosexuals in the 1920s

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Invert

30
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True or false the great depression was caused by the stock market crash of 1929

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False; it was correlated with it not caused by it

31
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Why did farmers have a depression in the 1920s

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farmers received a boom during World War I, which caused them to buy expensive machinery, that they couldn’t afford and put them into debt. Additionally, many farmers went into debt to finance the expansion, and then a combination of overproduction in low prices meant it off in their farms were foreclosed upon.

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What made the great depression the GREAT depression

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In the great depression, the great depression with massive unemployment and accompanying hardship, and this didn’t actually begin until like 1930 or 1931

33
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Name a cause of the great depression

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Americas weak banking system

34
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What did the PWA

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Appropriated to build things like roads and bridges

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