The Great Depression
Gold Diggers
Little Cesar
The Stock Market Crash, 1929
Oct. 24, 1929
Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929
Overproduction
Unemployment
Industrial Production
Investment in the Economy
Lands
Causes
Overproduction & Under-consumption
The Rich Classes
John Maynard Keynes
The Economic Consequences of Peace
Pay people to do anything
Smoot Hawley Tariff
World Depression
Fascism (Italy, Germany, & Japan)
Communism (Soviet Union)
Joseph Stalin
Welfare Capitalism (England, France, U.S)
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Laissez-faire
Starvation
Politics
Herbert Hoover, 1929
Bonus Army
Hooverville
Gen. Douglas Macarthur
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), 1932
New Deal
First 100 Days
Fireside Chats
1. Bank Holiday
Emergency Banking Act
FDIC
2. National Recovery Act
3. Agricultural Adjustment Act
Great Plains
Dust Bowl
Second New Deal
1. Job Programs
Public Works Administration
Civil Works Administration
Civilian Conservation Corps
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Works Project Administration
Arts Programs
Federal Writers Project
Federal Arts Project
Federal Music Project
Federal Theater Projects
Slave Narratives
Alternative Reform Programs
Huey Long & Redistribution of Wealth
Share the Wealth Policy
Recovery
Limits & Legacies of the New Deal Programs:
Strikes
Black Americans
Black Cabinet & Voting Shifts
Discrimination Reinforced
Tuskegee Experiments
Native Americans
Indian Reorganization Act
Women
Frances Perkins
Mexican Americans
Repatriation & Deportation
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League of United Latin American Citizens, 1929 (LULAC)
Goal
1. Eliminate segregation
Jesús Salvatierra vs. Del Rio ISD, 1930
Mendez vs. Westminster School District, 1947
Delgado vs. Bastrop ISD, 1949
2. Stop deportations
3. est. educational centers
Little Schools of the 400
Head Start
Legal Organization
Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF)
Current Goals
The West
Gangsters
Limits:
Economic Legacy
Welfare State
Political Legacy
Social Legacy
Concluding Thoughts
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