Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Great
Depression
- Why It
Happened
- farmer income decline
- banking crisis
- poor income distribution
- tariff
- Human
Toll
- unemployment, pay cuts, reduced
hours
- eviction
- neglected medical and dental
care
- decreased birth and marriage rate
- President Hoover
- "rugged individualism"
- largest public works
policy
- keep wages
high
- Smoot-Hawley
tariff
- Reconstruction Finance Corperation (RFC)
- UNICEF and CARE
- Franklin Delanor Roosevelt
- promise a New Deal
- win New York in 1928
- Farmer's Plight
- production soared, demand fell
- tenants further into debt
- The Dust Bowl
- Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
- Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
- Agriculture Adjustment Act (AAA)
- Bonus Army
- World War I veterans and families marched on Washington
- pay veterans for service
- Hoover accepted responsibility
- endorsed MacArthur's charge
- New Dealers
- influenced by the Progressive reformers
- more pragmatic
- reject of laissez-faire orthodoxy
- "trust-busters"
- enforcement of anti-trust laws
- "associationalists"
- cooperation between business, labor, and government
- "economic planners"
- centralized national planning
- Mexican Americans
- send immigrants and naturalized citizens to Mexico to reduce relief roles
- apply literacy test
- intensive raids
- Farm Security Administration established camps for workers
- CCC and WPA hired unemployed Mexican Americans
- not eligible for benefits under workers' compensation, Social Security, and the National Labor
Relations Act
- Native Americans
- Indian New Deal
- erasing a Native American identity
- Court of Indian Offenses
- Indian schools took Indian children away from their families and tribes
- Dawes Act
- Dawes Severalty Act of 1887
- Indian Emergency Conservation Program (IECP)