Description: The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world. It became evident after a sharp decline in stock prices in the United States, leading to a period of economic depression.

Significance: It transformed national politics by vastly expanding government, which was increasingly expected to stabilize the economy and prevent suffering.

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Description: The stock market plummeted when Wall Street investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors.

Significance: Black Tuesday marked the beginning of the Great Depression.

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Description: Herbert Clark Hoover was an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933.

Significance: A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression. He also gave benefits for housing and hospitalization.

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Description: The Dust Bowl, also known as “the Dirty Thirties,” started in 1930 and lasted for about a decade, but its long-term economic impacts on the region lingered much longer. Severe drought hit the Midwest and southern Great Plains in 1930. Massive dust storms began in 1931.

Significance: The Dust Bowl taught the United States to explore better approaches to land management.

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Description: Franklin D. Roosevelt was the 32nd President of the United States. Not only did he serve an unprecedented four terms in office, but he was also the first president with a significant physical disability. FDR was diagnosed with infantile paralysis, better known as polio

Significance: President Roosevelt created numerous programs to help the unemployed and farmers while seeking economic recovery with the National Recovery Administration and other programs. He also would talk on the radio about subjects that where happening.

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Description: Roosevelt called his radio talks about issues of public concern "Fireside Chats." Informal and relaxed, the talks made Americans feel as if President Roosevelt was talking directly to them.

Significance: Roosevelt continued to use fireside chats throughout his presidency to address the fears and concerns of the American people as well as to inform them of the positions and actions taken by the U.S. government.

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Description: The New Deal had three goals: relief, recovery, and reform. Relief meant that the president wanted to help those in crisis immediately by creating jobs, bread lines, and welfare. Recovery was aimed at fixing the economy and ending the Depression.

Significance: New Deal programs helped improve the lives of people suffering from the event of the Depression. The New Deal program set a precedent for the federal government to play a key role in the economic and social of the nation.

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Description: provides financial protection for our nation's people, supporting Americans throughout all of life's journeys.

Significance: The new Act created a social insurance program designed to pay retired workers age 65 or older a continuing income after retirement.

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Description: The National Cancer Institute conducts and supports research, training, health information distribution, and other programs related to the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cancer, and the continuing care of cancer patients and the families of cancer patients.

significance: The National Cancer Institute leads, conducts, and supports cancer researchers, across the nation, to advance scientific knowledge and help all people live longer, healthier lives.

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Description: The WPA Nutritional Lunch Program was a welfare assistance program providing hot lunches to schools and a jobs program that employed people to prepare and deliver food.

Significance: Provide hot lunches to schools and job programs that employ people to prepare and deliver the food.

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Definition: Allowed single men between the ages of 18 and 25 to enlist in work programs to improve America's public lands, forests, and parks

Significance: Provides jobs for young, unemployed men during the great depression

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Definition: An Act to prevent the treatment of Venereal Disease otherwise than by duly qualified medical Practitioners, and to control the supply of Remedies and for other matters connected.

Significance: Treatment of Venereal

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Definition: The FDCA authorizes the FDA with the following tasks, among many others: Mandate drug manufacturers to submit evidence of new drugs' safety and effectiveness before marketing and distribution to the general public. Issue and enforce quality standards for food, drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics.

Significance: .Inspect facilities where food, drugs, medical devices, cosmetics, and tobacco products are manufactured, processed, packaged, and stored.

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