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| upward trend in stockprices |
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| downward trend in stock prices |
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| helped commnities; charitable organizations served soup and bread to the community |
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| buying stocks with borrowed money |
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| war debts built up in european countries and world trade declined |
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| what happend to the farmers? |
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| people stopped buying their foods, surplus developed and food rotted in their fields, who are they? |
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| what happend to the prices during the depression |
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| WW1 vets who were not given the pension bonuses promised to them |
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| FDR closed all bands for a few days to stop massive withdrawals |
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| FERA (Federal Emergency Relief Administration) |
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| millinos of dollrs in relief to americans but they complained they "wanted jobs not handouts" |
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| CCC Civilian Conservation Corps |
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| young men trained to plant trees for $1 a day |
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| PWAPublic Works Administration |
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| created jobs, stimulated business, used fed funds to contract w/ private firms to build roads |
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| CWA Civil WOrks Administration |
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| Employed the unemployued to work on projects |
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| REA Rural Electrification Act |
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| Provided electricty to isolated rural areas |
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| AAA Agricultural Adjustment Administration |
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| payed farmers to reduce output; unconstitutional because big farms benefited more |
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| NIRA Nat'l Industrial Recovery Act |
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| stabilized prices, raised wages, limited work hours; unconstitutional because wages were down and prices went up |
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| provided unemployment insurance, pensions to the retired and payments to the disabled |
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| severe drought in the great plains |
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| people went from city to city looking for jobs |
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| type of art that refelected US maral traditions, local folk themes and customs |
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| believed in rugged individualism, and funded public works programs |
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| elected because he wasnt Hoover, democrat |
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| wrote "Gone With The Wind" about the old south during the civil war |
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| wrote "Grapes of Wrath" about the dust bowl |
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