https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne en-us 2017-03-02 20:44:01 UTC 2023-03-27 22:16:13 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Clouds.png aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158364738 October 29, 1929. On this date, share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the Great Depression.]]> 2017-03-07 15:12:48 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158364738 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158365093 the estimated minimum level of income needed to secure the necessities of life.]]> 2017-03-07 15:13:30 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158365093 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158365135 U.S. Central Bank; Purpose: to control the supply of credit and money to achieve stable prices, full employment, economic growth.]]> 2017-03-07 15:13:35 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158365135 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158365234 people who want a job are unable to find one. The unemployment rate went to 25% by 1933.

]]> 2017-03-07 15:13:46 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158365234 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158365341 It was in the midst of the great depression where everyone went to the banks to withdraw all their money, but the banks didn't have the money to pay them back.]]> 2017-03-07 15:13:59 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158365341 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158365607 Started around 1929. Al Capone opened the first soup kitchen. Usually served mostly soup and bread]]> 2017-03-07 15:14:30 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158365607 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158365800 Shanty town was a community of houses or "shantys" made from scraps they could find]]> 2017-03-07 15:14:54 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158365800 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158365877 given name to the Great Plains region devastated by drough in 1930s depression.
150000 square mile area encompassing the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring sections of Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico]]> 2017-03-07 15:15:02 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158365877 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158365922 Many Midwestern farmers and Great Plains farmers lost their farms
60 percent of the population left the region
Many famillies moved west to California hoping to find a better life
Migrant workers become source of cheap labor]]> 2017-03-07 15:15:07 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158365922 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158365988 Spring  of 1932 about 15,000 WW1 vets arrived in Washington to suppport the passage pf the proposed Putnam Bill.
If the bill passed WW1 vet would be issued a $1000 bonus immediately instead oof waiting until its scheduled date of 1945]]> 2017-03-07 15:15:14 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158365988 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158366038 The new deal was a series of laws that were passed by Franklin Delano Roosevelt to help with Americans life (Relief, Recovery, Reform). Was to help the poor, economy, and laws to make it harder for a repeat depression to happen.]]> 2017-03-07 15:15:21 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158366038 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158366123 unemployment continues to rise, bank runs increased. Many governors declared bank holidays, which closed remaining banks before bank runs could put them out of business]]> 2017-03-07 15:15:30 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158366123 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158366196 Roosevelt spoke directly to the people in his "fireside chats", assuring the Americans  that the banks were secure.
passed the Emergency Banking Relief Act, which required federal examiners to survey the nation's banks and issue Treasury Department licenses to financially sound banks ]]> 2017-03-07 15:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158366196 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158366258 Roosevelt's proposal in 1937 to "reform" the Supreme Court by appointing an additional justice for every justice over age 70; following the Court's actions in striking down major New Deal laws, FDR came to believe that some justices were out of touch with the nation's needs. Congress believed Roosevelt's proposal endangered the Court's independence and said no.]]> 2017-03-07 15:15:49 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158366258 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158366383 The three R's]]> 2017-03-07 15:16:06 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158366383 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158366521 Tennessee Valley Authority built hydroelectric plants and dams aimed at improving seven Southern states and attracting industry to the south.
Private power companies were against it because they received govt subsidies.]]> 2017-03-07 15:16:22 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158366521 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158366554 Civilian Conservation Corp gave unemployed man aged 18-25 the opportunity to work with the national forestry service]]> 2017-03-07 15:16:27 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158366554 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158366591 Workers Progress Administration spent $11 billion over several years, creating jobs for workers
its most controversial aspect was offering work to artist, musicians, theatre people and writers.]]> 2017-03-07 15:16:31 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158366591 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158366660 Social Security Act provided some security for the elderly (65+) and for unemployed workers]]> 2017-03-07 15:16:38 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158366660 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158366759 FDR's Wife and New Deal supporter. Was a great supporter of civil rights and opposed the Jim Crow laws. She also worked for birth control and better conditions for working women]]> 2017-03-07 15:16:47 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/5knkgiv3xnne/wish/158366759