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Why do male suicidal rates increase?

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They were ashamed because they couldn’t support their families (pride)

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Why do lines become a symbol for this time period?

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Lines for food, bank, unemployment

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Bank run

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Storm a bank that is closing as an attempt to get their money back

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Where are women in the Great Depression?

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Invisible

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Hoover ville or shanty town

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Houses built of scrap material (found in today’s major cities)

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Who was hurt the most?

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The middle class

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New deal

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Programs to end depression started by franklin Roosevelt

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GDP

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Value of our products

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Dorothea Lang

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Famous photographer in the 1920-30s

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What causes the Great Depression?

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Market for American goods
A crisis in the farm sector
The availability of easy credit
An unequal distribution of income
The overuse of credit
Stock market crash
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Can the this happen to the stock market today?

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No they have to close it down

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Black Thursday and Tuesday

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Stock falls and ppl panic oct. 24+29

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Hoovervilles

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Shanty towns

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Hoboes

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Men who wander across the us often on trains, looking for work, food, shelter

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Hobo language

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Signs written in chalk or scratched into buildings to warn other hoboes

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Silent cal Coolidge

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Believed in a small govt. (not many rules) took over the Harding presidency

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Herbert hoovers campaign slogan

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A chicken in every pot and a car in very garage

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What was hoovers goal?

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To end poverty

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Hoover

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Best presidential resimay and wealthiest president enters in the 1920s and stock market crashes 8 months after he enters as president

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Hawley smoot tariff

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Biggest tariff that shuts down foreign trade, harms economy, but intentions were to protect American businesses

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How does Hoover deal with the crash?

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He first encourages optimism or denial, then says charity will fix it and does nothing, finally he institutes the reconstruction finance corps in 1932, but its not a direct relief and loans money, too late to help

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Ragged individualism

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Get through the Great Depression by being tough (encouraged by Hoover)

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Getting hooverd

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To lose everything

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Dust bowl

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Dust storms and black blizzards in he bread basket of the world stretched from middle to eastern US ruining crops and farmland. Farmers left

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Hundred days
1st hundred days in office for GDR promised change and acted quickly
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New deal
Plan for fighting the GD using the government
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Alphabet agencies
New government programs designed to create jobs and help people
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The 3 R's
Relief Recovery Reform
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Relief
Direct assistance to people in need (short term)
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Recovery
Getting American business back to normal
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Reform
Changing laws to prevent another GD
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1st new deal
Reform, short term, many things, helps with unemployment but doesn't totally fix the economy
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2nd new deal
Big things, upcoming election programs, response to slow change if the 1st new deal
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Works progress administration
Relief, jobs for anyone to do anything (2nd)
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Social security administration
Reform, pension for retired and injured workers (2nd)
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Rural electrification administration
Electricity to rural America, very costly
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Social security
Helping retired and injured workers by taking $ from pay and podded among all workers and given in monthly payments after retirement
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Critics of the new deal
Huey long Dr. Townsend Fr coughlin
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Fr coughlin
Critic of bankers and Jews
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Dr. Townsend
Wants pension for elderly
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Huey long
Share the wealth, has incredible political power, take from the rich and give to the poor
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Movies
Stay warm, cheap
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War of the worlds
Tv broadcast that Martians invaded earth, false, but caused a panic
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Religion
Gave hope and faith
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Radio
Entertainment and kept you informed
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Art
Importance of work and GD (American gothic)
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Music
Spirituals, political (radical song like this land is your land)
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Liberal
Democrats, big govt, powerful national govt, regulate economy, communism (no private property), change, left wing Long, fdr's new deal, time goes on Supreme Court shifts over
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Conservative
Republicans, small govt, powerful state govt, right wing, fascism (private property), no change Hoover Supreme Court at beginning
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Who painted the new deal mural?
Albrizio
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What does for represent?
The return of work
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When was fdr elected?
1932,36,40,44
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What party was fdr apart of?
Democratic (change)
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When did fdr die?
1945
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Who was fdr's wife?
Eleanor Roosevelt
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What major events did fdr do?
``` New deal Pres for only 2 terms Takes us through GD Takes us through ww2 Creates social security ```
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What does time equal in the Hoover presidency?
Trouble and debt
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Who does Hoover blame for the GD?
Foreign trade
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Reconstruction finance corp
Hoover talks to banks to extend loans but causes more debt
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Guthrie
Traveled with migrant workers from Oklahoma to California and learned traditional folk and blues songs (GD and dust bowl) dust bowl troubadour
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Boulder dam
Hoover built to make jobs and use hydroelectric power
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Share the wealth
Longs plan to make every man a king, tax rich, give home, car, food, clothing, employment, radio, comfort, education grade schooltil college, social security, no debt
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What does fdr say in his speech?
Recasting out GD by saying there is hope to overcome, but we have to be honest we have a problem
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Who does fdr blame?
Bankers
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Civilian conservation corps
(Abc) relief, young men to do environmental jobs to support their families
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Civil works admin.
Abc, relief, small, gave pointless jobs to give ppl money (terrible winter need $ for heat)
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Public works admin.
Recovery and relief, abc, financed construction products both fed. and non fed, built big things
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Glass steagall banking act of 1933
Abc, reform, creates FDIC or bank deposit insurance
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Fed. Securities act
Reform, abc, sec or security exchange commission, regulate the stock market
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Agricultural adjustment act
Relief, abc,unconstitutional cause of too much boot. Control, helped farmers by regulating production, no more wasting product
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National recovery act
Abc, recovery, unconstitutional for too much govt. control, way for American businesses to not compete with each other, instead develop

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