Depression
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- New deal agency created to aid farmers affected by the Depression
- AAA
- Father Choughlin
- Used the radio to appeal to his listeners.
- FDR's political strengths
- ability to bring together Americans- was able to congeal the mass of the people (the middle class). His confidence
- scottsboro boys
- accused of raping two women on train
- Harry Hopkins and Lorena Hickok
- Hopkins directed Hickok to go into the countryside and observe the effects of the depression
- Causes of the Great Depression
- Agricultural problems. Unequal distribution of wealth. Easy Credit.
- Father Coughlins political body (that he formed in 1934)
- National Union for Social Justice
- Townsend Plan
- The precursor old age pension plan that gave people over 60 monthly payments of 200 $
- Where did FDR go to high school and college
- Groton school and Harvard
- Upton Sinclair's program to create a "cooperative commonwealth" in Calufornia
- EPIC (end poverty in California)
- FDR's plan for fixing the economy
- revive the economy by strengthening the banks, industry, and agriculture
- professed to find the sources of the Depression within the United States
- Roosevelt
- How did the New Deal seek to deal with the Ag. problem
- paid farmers not to produce in order to balance the surplus witht eh economy's wealth
- ...sucscribed to a view of the Depression as stemming from internation causes
- Herbert Hoover
- Huey long
- LA governor