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    FDR’s New Deal Programs In the 1930’s the worst economic crash to hit the United States, and which was later called the Great Depression. All throughout the 1920’s under the Hoover administration there was a tremendous growth of the stock market; which in turn made people believe that it would never fall and people were making a tremendous amount of money. Banks were allowing people to buy stocks on speculation, credit, and on October 29th 1929, also known as “Black Tuesday”, was when the stock

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    The Populist Party, a political party that was created during the end of the nineteenth century. It was created as a result of farmer impatience and the common financial distress among families. This was triggered by the change in national profit from farming to corporations which intensely diminished the farmer’s income. The populist party had ideas such as regulation of the banks, an active but regulated government, and power for the people. The People's Party was much younger than the Democratic

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    During World War I, an increase in strikes allowed employees to get higher wages and better conditions. However, after the war, unions started to weaken due to the unexpectedly high wages. The workers were expecting the low wages they had before the war. In addition, there was a decrease in unions because many soldiers who returned from the war wanted their old jobs back. While many of the soldiers did not get their jobs back, some individuals did because employers fired the workers who were trying

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    Alabama was one of the hardest states that was hit by the great depression. It was already the poorest state. Most people became homeless because they lost their job and couldn't pay their rent. The homeless then did anything to keep a roof over their head, including making shacks out of anything, forming Hoovervilles. The more people that were homeless, the more competitive the job market became. The Dust Bowl was created by a drought, over plowing of the soil, and the techniques of farmers.

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    During the 1990s, a decrease in the employment sectors many black middle class families moved out into Baltimore County. The cost of housing made it difficult to sustain the cost of living. In 2014, the number of Whites within Baltimore had the highest number in migration. However, within the white population a better advantage of resources were available such as loans, jobs, entertainment, education, and technology making it easier to live within Baltimore. Gentrification has pushed Blacks with

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    How does one keep faith in a country during times of destitute and agony? In 1929, the stock market crashed. Poverty struck the country fast like the huge dust storms in the west. The new president, F.D.R, promised to relieve, recover and reform the country with various organizations. Churches and other groups set up food lines. F.D.R’s main goal was to put every American to work. The dilemmas of the Great Depression were soon set out to be handled by actions by the federal and state governments

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    affair. Everything I have talked about in this had a major impact leading up and during the Great Depression. The Great Depression not only affected the US but it was a global disaster. Most people think that the one great cause was the stock market crash. The stock market crashed because of what was already happening. Credit, debt, loans, these all had a huge

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    The Great Depression was a very detrimental time in American history.The Great Depression was caused by a series of events that lead to the crash of the stock market. On October 29, 1929 over a billion dollars was lost, despite the trade of over 16 million shares. This unexpected downfall caused a collapse in the American economy. Following the crash of the stock market, over 9000 banks failed to stay in business. This caused many fellow Americans to lose their savings they began to refuse to spend

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    The Great Depression came dramatically with the crash of the stock market. The causes of the Great Depression had been sowed well before 1929. Some of these causes that contributed to the Great Depression were the uneven in wealth distribution, over production of goods made in the United States, and the pro business culture of the 1920s which introduced lower taxes, higher tariffs, and anti-unionism. These causes along with the over lending from banks in speculation of individual stocks contributed

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    The great depression was a hard time form many people. The most affected people were the farmers. They had to give up so much just so they could live. many of them had to sell most of their cattle so that they could buy food and clothes. Roosevelt made a plan to help all of them. He came up with this plan by going out to see what was really going on. He talked about how dry it was and how the people were struggling just to survive. This idea consisted of employing all the farmers affected by the

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