How did america get out of The Great Depression?
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President after Herbert Hoover was deemed unsuccessful – a strong believer in “laissez faire,” refused to involve the government with economic issues. Roosevelt proposed a “New Deal” reform and gave the government more power to get involved in economic affairs. However, the Great Depression fully ended after World War II, as the nation provided more jobs with increase demand for weapon production.
What was the New Deal? Who was Franklin Roosevelt and what was his role in the Great Depression? 3. Read other books about African-Americans in the Great Depression. For example, the sequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Let the Circle be Unbroken, by Mildred Taylor or Sounder, by W. H. Armstrong. to top Vocabulary Context Puzzle 1.__ __ V __ R __ Y 2. __ R __ D __ __ T __ __ N 3. U __ __ __ P __ O __ E __ 4.__ E __ I __ F 5.__ N __ __ __ L __ Y __ E __ __ 6.__ __ P __ __ S __ I __ N A. Living in ___ was so difficult because she did not have enough food. B. Some people say that this country is in a ___ because so many people are out of work. C. She was very sad because her mother had no job and her father recently became. D. Many factories are closing because there is not a demand for ___ of their materials. E. The rate of ___ is very high because so many people have lost their jobs. F. Sometimes people must seek ___ when they have no food or shelter. (Answers: 1. poverty 2. producti
By increasing tariffs and increasing protectionism? Not. ThomasPaine23, on 02/15/2008, -0/+1ever heard of hedge funds??? “overvalued and unregulated” applies mcduckov, on 02/14/2008, -3/+1People just don’t understand how much is in place now that didn’t exist in 1929. FDIC insurance, for one, didn’t exist. One of the very first things people did when they saw things might go bad was, literally, run to the bank to demand ALL their money (not just stocks or bonds but every last dollar). There was no unemployment insurance, food stamps, and many of the other things now available to people who lose their job. We don’t currently have a president/congress clamoring to shut down trade with other nations. We don’t have a Fed clamping down on the money supply. I mean the list goes on and on and on. But I guess the news of mild recession wasn’t getting enough traction–they have to bump it up to Great Depression Part Deux.ThomasPaine23, on 02/14/2008, -1/+4And we also did not have a 9 trillion d
