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- National press coverage of U.S. Army troops assaulting Bonus Army veterans harmed Hoover's reputation and hounded him as he sought re-election in 1932.
- The Supreme Court declared the National Recovery Administration unconstitutional (against the law).
- In July of 1932, the U.S. Army expelled the Bonus Marchers from Washington, D.C., with tear gas and fixed bayonets.
- American Gothic was a well-known painting by Grant Wood that pays tribute to Midwesterners.
- Between March 9 and June 16, 1933—which came to be called the Hundred Days—President Roosevelt sent bill after bill to Congress, and Congress passed 15 major acts to resolve the economic crisis.
- In order to hear different viewpoints on issues, President Roosevelt chose advisers who disagreed with each other.
- In the early 1930s, to pay for public works projects that would create enough jobs, the government would have to
- One reason that the stock market crash led to the Great Depression was that in 1929, the top 5 percent of all American households earned 30 percent of the nation's income, an example of
- Wiped out by the Depression and by drought, many penniless families left the Dust Bowl and headed to
- During the Depression, the jobless stood in breadlines for free food, lined up outside soup kitchens set up by private groups, or went hungry.
- During the Great Depression, many farmers who were already under pressure from debt and falling prices were devastated by
- In the 1920s, the Federal Reserve contributed to weaknesses in the stock market by
- When people could not pay their rent or mortgage but would not leave the dwelling, they were evicted (forced out) by court officers.
- Movies produced during the Depression usually focused attention on the homeless and the unemployed.
- "[They have] one room shacks usually about 10 by 12 feet, have no rug, no water, no bed. In one corner there is a little iron wood stove. Water must be carried from the faucet at the end of the street." —John Steinbeck, from Dust to Eat: Drought and Depression What does the excerpt suggest about how the Great Depression affected Americans?
- During the Great Depression, many farmers were forced to turn their farms over to
- During the Depression, people who moved around the country by slipping into open boxcars on freight trains for a ride were called flappers.
- During the Depression, self-deputized citizens in the Southwest rounded up Mexicans—often without regard to their citizenship status—and forcibly returned them to Mexico.
- A decline in the sales of automobiles meant that there was less demand for
- We the people is the beginning of what significant American document or speech?