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| show | It occurred on October 29, 1929, when 16,410,030 shares of stocks were sold in a save-who-may scramble. It marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
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| show | 1) lack of diversification in economy, 2) maldistribution of wealth, 3) credit structure of the economy, 4) America's position in international trade, 5) international debt structure
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| show | workers with jobs that are nevertheless experiencing major reductions in wages, hours, or both.
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| show | a series of dust storms (sometimes referred to as black blizzards) causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 (in some areas until 1940), caused by severe drought conditions coupled with decad
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| show | a term, dating from as early as 1907, denoting a resident or native of Oklahoma, these people traveled to California and other states during the Dust Bowl where they found slightly better conditions.
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| show | The case of the Scottsboro Boys arose in Scottsboro, Alabama during the 1930s, when nine black youths, ranging in age from twelve to nineteen, were accused of raping two white women, Victoria Price and Ruby Bates, one of whom would later recant.
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| show | a self help manual preaching individual initiative, was one of the best selling books of the decade.
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| walker evans/ ben shahn/ margaret | show 🗑
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| show | examples of the comedies/ entertainment programs or escapism Americans heard on the radio during the depression.
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| show | masters of elaborately timed jokes and repartee began to develop broad followings.
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| orson welles/ war of the worlds | show 🗑
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| frank capra/ mr. deeds goes to town/ mr. smith goes to washington | show 🗑
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| show | known as "screwball" comedies, designed to divert audiences from their troubles and often indulge their fantasies about quick and easy wealth.
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| show | the 1930's saw the beginning of W. Disney's long reign as the champion of animation and children's entertainment, starting with short cartoons for theatres featuring Mickey Mouse, and eventually producing feature length animated films, like 1937's Snow Wh
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| life | show 🗑
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| show | a broad coalition of antifascist groups on the left, of which the most important was the American Communist Party.
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| show | He was the head of the Food Administration during World War I. He became the Secretary of Commerce and encouraged businesses to regulate themselves. Hoover was a Republican known for his integrity who won the election of of 1928. He had to deal with the G
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| show | proposed by Hoover in 1929, it established the first major government program to help farmers maintain prices, a federally sponsored Farm Board would make loans to national marketing cooperatives or establish corporations to buy surpluses and thus raise p
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| show | Name given to the makeshift shanty towns built in vacant lots during the Depression.
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| show | formed by a group of unhappy farm owners, it endorsed the withholding of farm products from the market- in effect a farmers' strike, which although blockading several markets ended in failure.
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| show | A group of almost 20,000 World War I veterans who were hard-hit victims of the depression, who wanted what the government owed them for their services and "saving" democracy. They marched to Washington and set up public camps and erected shacks on vacant
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| show | the army chief of staff, carried out the mission of assisting the police in clearing out buildings of marchers, himself and greatly exceeded the president's orders. He led many military factions in pursuit of the Bonus Army until the veterans fled in terr
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