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

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