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- When business started to fail, the government created the Smoot-Hawley Tariff (tax on exported goods) in 1930 to protect American companies. This caused global economic instability
- People stopped spending money, so many lost their jobs because the people they worked for were not getting any money.
- Established during 1933 (reform)Ensures money in the bank just incase the bank fails (money deposited in the bank is now ensured)
- Relief because it only lasted 4 daysIf the bank is good, it gets reopenedGave confidence to the people to put their money in banks
- Building highways, schools, and roadsRecoveryProvide short term jobsMostly men work (construction)
- Created thousands of jobs during the great depression
- A deep economic depressionBanks and business failures; high unemployment (25%)DroughtDust BowlFranklin Delano RooseveltSocial Security, FDIC"New Deal" programs
- how many children the migrant mother had
- The "cotton diplomacy" advanced by Confederate President Jefferson Davis was based on the belief that
- how many pictures Ms. Lange took
- the long-term economic state in the 1930s characterized by unemployment, low prices, and low levels of trade and investment
- the name of the agency that hired Ms. Lange to take photos of migrant workers
- the program established to help get the US out of the depression
- What was the main problem for the Confederate and Union armies when preparing for war
- In 1864 how did Lincoln propose rewarding African American soldiers who had served for the Union Army?
- how Ms. Lange described her encounter with the migrant mother
- During the Great Depression homeless people built shelters called
- Why did the Union find it difficult to maintain the blockade it set up to control southern ports
- the person who took the "Migrant Mother" photos
- The goal of the Union army in the West was to gain control of the