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The Great Depresson
The Great Depression was a national nightmare. During the1920's, Many Americans had started to equate their self worth with their material possessions When the Great depression struck, people felt worth less. The worst unemployment rate was 25% in 1933 [13-15 million] when president Roosevelt came into office, his administration passed legislation that aimed to stabilizes industrial and agricultural production, create jobs, and stimulate recover. They called it the 3 R's -
20th Amendment
-The 20th Amendment was written because the constitution was ratified to reduce the amount of time lame duck presidents and congressmen had to push policies before the New administration and legislators took over. -
Robert Taft
-Taft was the senate's main opponent of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal domestic policies, he felt the New Deal had a socialist day
-During his first term in the senate taft criticized what he believed was the inefficiency and was of many New Deal programs and of the need to let private enterprise and businesses restore the nations economy instead of relying upon government programs to end the great depression -
Gold Reserve Act & the gold standard
The Gold Reserve Act out land most private possession of gold forcing individuals to sell it to the treasures after which it was stored in the ballon de positor at fort knox normally the nationalization of a commodity would have been a age contrive but the gold Act was seen as a necessary step to ending the great Depression. It shock value was also moderated by the fact that an executive and had already made the private ownership or trading gold a criminal offense -
Migrant Mother
Ms.Lange was hired by the government to photograph the effects of the great Depression. Her images revealed her compassion for the poor. Their photographs of migrant workers helped draw attention desperate conditions in rural America and helped to underscore the need for direct relief
