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DOROTHEA LANGE
migrant mother is one of a sires of photograph her subjects are homeless women their children and migrant workers her work was funded by federal agencies such as the farm security administration the editor than told the federal authorities whom urged the government to rush did to the camp to prevent starvation -
20TH AMENDMENT
sets the date at which federal government elected offices end also defined who succeeds the president if the president dies.
elected officials who had been replaced were office longer than was necessary called "lame duck" period mire the new president from taking in office in February back to January to lesson lame duck period -
AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT
its purpose was to help farmers by reducing production to staple crops, taxes forced farmers to cut amounts they marketed the gov. even paid for farmers not to grow crops so prices would not go up and help the land -
TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
it was created by congressional in may 1933 to provide flood control electricity generator and economic development during the depression this was president Roosevelt new deal for reform largest public power company in the U.S. owns the 5th largest river system provides electricity for Tennessee but also parts of Kentucky Alabama Georgia north Carolina and Virginia some feared TVA was a form of socialism -
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
the purpose of the sec is protected investors from dangerous or illegal financial practices of fraud, the issues it addressed was that there was the fact that no one was watching the stock market. the effects of this passage was to prevent another stock market collapse; in doing so it evolved our markets into high-tech trading centers -
21ST AMENDMENT
many people had simply refused to accept the ban on alcohol. even president Harding drank alcohol in the white house. prohibition was repealed by the twenty-first amendment. the experience of prohibition demonstrated that unpopular laws are sometimes unenforceable -
HUEY LONG
U.S. senator and former governor of louisiana Huey Long promised to give each American family income of $5,000 a year, to be paid for for by taxing the rich long was assassinated before he was able to mount his campaign against FDR -
JUDICIAL PROCEDURES REFORM BILL
the reform bill was frequently called the "court packing plan" was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S.president Roosevelt to add more justice to the U.S. supreme court
the bill was to increase the numbers of U.S. supreme court justice then to bring in several new justices who would change the balance of opinion on the court
Roosevelt failed many times at attempting to pass the law
its failer exposed the limits of Roosevelt's abilities to push legislated through public appeal -
ROBERT TAFT (NEW DEAL SOCIALISM)
co operating with conservative democrat and led the conservative that opposed the new deal. the republican gains in the 1938 elections combined with the creation of the conservative had stopped the expansion of new deal. calling for economy in government, a balanced budget and less centralization of power in the nation capital -
GRAPES OF WRATH
the grapes of wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939
an Okei is a resident, native, or cultural descendant of Oklahoma
the rout 66 (U.S. 66 or rout 66) the main HWY in the 1930s that connected the great planes to California
migrants went to California in hopes to find jobs and places to work but when they got there the jobs were taken
