Great Depression and the Americas Review by Ronaldo Hernandez https://padlet.com/rhernandez226/5c708g6bnt2i Review of the Great Depression on the Americas (US, Canada, and Latin America) en-us 2018-04-04 13:41:29 UTC 2018-04-06 13:42:51 UTC hello@padlet.com Political and Economic Causes of the GD in the US: rhernandez226 https://padlet.com/rhernandez226/5c708g6bnt2i/wish/248487744 -Speculation and too much credit buying
-FED not doing much (Federal Reserve)
-Income inequality (most wealth held by the 1%)
-Loss of construction jobs
-Europe exports declined]]> 2018-04-04 13:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/rhernandez226/5c708g6bnt2i/wish/248487744 FDR and the New Deal: rhernandez226 https://padlet.com/rhernandez226/5c708g6bnt2i/wish/248488195 -No more Gold Standard
-Subsidies for farmers
-FDIC
-Loans to States
FDR packed court
-Significant Opposition to New Deal
-Public Art was part of CWA
-Keynesian economics dominated thought]]> 2018-04-04 13:43:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rhernandez226/5c708g6bnt2i/wish/248488195 Canada GD: rhernandez226 https://padlet.com/rhernandez226/5c708g6bnt2i/wish/248488335 -Economic Fragility
-Dependent on the US economy
-Many small farms closed down
-Bennett allocated 20mm for public works projects and raised tariffs
-Montreal wnet into bankruptcy in 1940
- The Canadian Wheat Board 
-The Farmer’s Creditors -Arrangement Act 
-The Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Act
-The Bank of Canada
-The Canadian Radio Broadcasting Commission
-Bennett believed in the free enterprise system, not gov’t which is known as “Bennett’s New Deal” 
- THE COOPERATIVE COMMONWEALTH FEDERATION (CCF) 
-Social Credit
-Union Nationale]]> 2018-04-04 13:44:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rhernandez226/5c708g6bnt2i/wish/248488335 Latin America and the GD: rhernandez226 https://padlet.com/rhernandez226/5c708g6bnt2i/wish/248488421 -Latin America was slow to  industrialize
-Latin American commodities were valuable in foreign countries (Dependent on foreign trade)
-]]> 2018-04-04 13:44:19 UTC https://padlet.com/rhernandez226/5c708g6bnt2i/wish/248488421 The impact of GD on African Americans and Women: rhernandez226 https://padlet.com/rhernandez226/5c708g6bnt2i/wish/248488454 2018-04-04 13:44:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rhernandez226/5c708g6bnt2i/wish/248488454 The GD'S Effect on the arts in the US: rhernandez226 https://padlet.com/rhernandez226/5c708g6bnt2i/wish/248488632 2018-04-04 13:44:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rhernandez226/5c708g6bnt2i/wish/248488632