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      <pubDate>2018-04-25 16:14:41 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>1. What caused the Great Depression? Describe the Crash of 1929; is this only factor? Explain and defend your answer.</title>
         <author>nhudson3</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>The Great Depression was caused by the Stock Market Crash in 1929 but also Bank Failures occurred that led to lots of people losing their money in places they trusted. The United states lost a lot of money through this and it was a big problem for everyone in the country. </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-04-25 16:17:30 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>2. What were “Hoovervilles” and “Hooverflags?”  What does this demonstrate about Hoover’s Presidency during the Great Depression?</title>
         <author>nhudson3</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>"Hoovervilles" were makeshift shanty towns of tents and shacks built on public land or vacant lots. People here walked around looking for jobs with their empty pants pockets turned inside out, a sign of poverty known as "Hooverflags." This demonstrates that everyone blames Hoover for the economic melt down and loss of money and jobs but also create poverty in the United States.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-04-25 16:18:01 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>3. What was the Bonus Army? Describe their March on Washington and how Hoover had it handled. </title>
         <author>nhudson3</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>The Bonus army was marches that WWI veterans and their families attended to demand cash payment redemption of their service certificates. There were 43,000 marchers in Washington D.C. and they took over the streets and all of the city. Then Hoover ordered the army to clear the marchers and their campsites. General Douglas MacArthur commanded the infantry and cavalry supported by six tanks to drive them out and burn their belongings.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-04-25 16:18:45 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>4. Why did so many banks close down in the early 1930s? What did FDR do to save the Banking system?</title>
         <author>nhudson3</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>in 1930 744 banks failed and in 1933 depositors saw $140 billion disappear through bank failures. Every small town had a bank or two struggling to take in deposits and loan out money to farmers and businesses. This was part of a big cause to the closing of banks. When FDR became president, banks in all 48 states had either closed or had placed restrictions on how much money depositors could withdraw. FDR's first act as President was to declare a national bank holiday closing the banks for a three day cooling off period.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-04-25 16:19:07 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>5. What was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?  What was the intended purpose? What impact did this have?</title>
         <author>nhudson3</author>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>The (CCC) was a work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1945 for unemployed, unmarried men. The purpose was designed to provide jobs for young men and to relieve families who had difficulty finding jobs during the Great Depression. The impact gave 3 million young men provided shelter, clothing, and food, together with a wage of $30 per month.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-04-25 16:19:40 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>6. What was the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?  What was the intended purpose? Did it work?</title>
         <author>nhudson3</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/nhudson3/hewxkber0a1p/wish/255318759</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>The (AAA) was made to oversee the distribution of the subsides through an exclusive tax on companies which processed farm products. It's purpose was designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses. In 1936 the Supreme Court declared that the AAA was unconstitutional which killed the AAA</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-04-25 16:20:01 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>7. What was the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)? Why was it so controversial?</title>
         <author>nhudson3</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/nhudson3/hewxkber0a1p/wish/255318946</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>The (TVA) was made to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley which was affected by the great depression. It was controversial because it was suppose to help the United States in every way possible by taking action in all these subjects.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-04-25 16:20:22 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>8. What was the Works Progress Administration (WPA)? Did it have a positive impact on solving the Great Depression?</title>
         <author>nhudson3</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/nhudson3/hewxkber0a1p/wish/255319101</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>The (WPA) was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency. The (WPA) was effective by employing millions of people to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-04-25 16:20:39 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>9. Describe the causes and effects of the Dust Bowl in the American Midwest.  </title>
         <author>nhudson3</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/nhudson3/hewxkber0a1p/wish/255319237</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>It caused drought, dust, and agricultural decline.  The agricultural devastation helped to lengthen the Great Depression, whose effects were felt worldwide. In the spring of 1934 the massive drought impacted 27 states severely and affected more than 75 percent of the country. The Dust Bowl was the worst drought to date.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-04-25 16:20:54 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>10. Who were Huey Long and Charles Coughlin? What were their views on FDR?</title>
         <author>nhudson3</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/nhudson3/hewxkber0a1p/wish/255319358</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Huey Long was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928. Charles Coughlin was a Canadian/American Roman Catholic priest based in the US. Charles Coughlin's radio broadcasts reached an estimated 40,000,000 listeners and attempted to sway popular <em>opinion</em> away from FDR and his <em>New Deal</em> policies. Long often attempted to upstage FDR and the congressional leadership by mounting populist appeals of his own, most notably his Share Our Wealth program.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-04-25 16:21:10 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>11.Discuss the opposition to FDR from the Supreme Court. What was FDR’s “Court Packing Plan?”  How did it turn out?</title>
         <author>nhudson3</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/nhudson3/hewxkber0a1p/wish/255319597</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>The Supreme Court took its stance from a legal viewpoint and it effectively declared the NRA illegal. The court packing plan is simply to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. It turned out that most Republicans and Democrats in Congress opposed the “court-packing” plan. But others thought it was to neutralize Supreme Court justices hostile to his New Deal.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-04-25 16:21:35 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>12. Discuss the contributions of individual people (besides FDR) to Great Depression history.  Include names such as Bonnie and Clyde, Dorothea Lange and Francis Perkins.   </title>
         <author>nhudson3</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/nhudson3/hewxkber0a1p/wish/255319738</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>Bonnie and Clyde made contributions because they were outlaws in The Great Depression which made it easy for them while citizens were most vulnerable. Dorothea Lange was a huge contributor to The Great Depression by making portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression and greatly influenced later documentary and journalistic photography. Lat but not least Francis Perkins contributed by helping FDR with executed many aspects of the New Deal. Also she spent a lot of time with labor unions. </div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2018-04-25 16:21:51 UTC</pubDate>
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