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Depression

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New deal agency created to aid farmers affected by the Depression
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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

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