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    Karen Rusli Rusli 1 HIST 338 Dr. Bryan Lamkin 24 May 2013 California During the Great Depression The 1930s was not the best time period for California‚ the U.S.‚ or the world. When the stock market crashed in 1929 in the United States‚ it set off the most severe economic depression in the Western world. On top of all of that‚ a severe drought hit the Southern and Midwestern plains in 1931 just two years after the stock market crashed. This became known as the Dust Bowl. In the Dust Bowl‚ crops

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    The United States have had numerous times when it experienced increased amounts of unemployment rates. One of the most notable time period was the called The Great Depression. During this time frame a lot of propaganda has been generated to demonstrate and contribute positive messages towards the citizens of USA. According to the book named‚ The WPA Putting America to Work by Jeff Hill it states on page 19 “… Hoover encouraged chartable efforts to address the issues of joblessness‚ hunger‚ and poverty…

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    The Great Depression. The Great Depression began in 1929 and continued throughout the 1930’s. This depression represented the fall of liberalism through aspects such as: tariffs‚ trade wars‚ credit‚ borrowing on the margin‚ and so much more. These characteristics of the depression represented the downfall of liberalism and challenged the liberal assumptions of the world. It made people hope to achieve relief through favoring alternatives such as socialism and fascism. One facet of The Great Depression

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    The Great Depression was the longest-lasting and most sever depression experienced by the Industrialized western world. It all began on October of 1929‚ when the stock market crashed. This caused the Wall Street to start to panic and even wiped out many investors as they began to dump all of the shares that they had owned (History.com). People however were not just getting rid of all of their stocks‚ but they were also starting to become unemployed. This was because many businesses could not afford

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    2016 Social and Economic Problems Unemployment Caused The Great Depression was a period of time when the economy was going downhill; farms‚ businesses‚ and banks nationwide were failing. In my opinion‚ and I believe many people will agree to this‚ unemployment was one of the biggest problems during this time period. Unemployment skyrocketed when the stock market crashed on October 29‚ 1929‚ which signaled the beginning of the Great Depression. Unemployment caused problems socially and economically

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    The Great Depression was a difficult time for everybody during the late 1920s. It was a period of unrest‚ unease‚ and called for a total revolution on the way people lived their lives; the impacts of which can still be felt today. The Depression drew to a close as Franklin Delano Roosevelt led the nation on the road to recovery after being sworn into the oval office in 1933‚ the means of this recovery being through his New Deal for America. Though effective‚ but not quite to the degree Roosevelt

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    Notes on Smuggling moonshine during prohibition -http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=441 Enforcing the law proved almost impossible. Smuggling and bootlegging were widespread. Two New York agents‚ Izzie Einstein and Mo Smith‚ relied on disguises while staging their raids--once posing as man and wife. Their efforts were halted‚ however‚ after a raid on New York City’s 21 trapped some of the city’s leading citizens. In New York‚ 7‚000 arrests for liquor law violations

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    Life during the Great Depression The Great Depression was a recession that had affected every globalizing country. It started in 1929 with the Stock Market Crash‚ and it lasted throughout the 1930s. It caused many economic downturns. Unemployment and homelessness increased dramatically. Construction halted; farmers suffered and didn’t make a profit; mining and logging declined because there was no demand for it. The cause of the Great Depression are said to be many. But here are a few reasons

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    Public Life The economic setting during the Great Depression that is described above provides a general synopsis of the corporate instability during this period in U.S. history. Nonetheless‚ the data fails to convey the numerous hardships and suffrage felt by U.S. citizens and those impacted throughout the world by the crisis. A quick overview of the anecdotes of the time are useful in analyzing the demand for overtime pay regulation by the American public that is presented within the discussion

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    Hobos on the trains during the Great Depression There is a man who is tired‚ hungry‚ jobless‚ penniless‚ homeless and has been “riding the rails” for what seems to be an eternity. The box car is full with many other men‚ teenage boys and some women riding with him. All of them are there for the same reasons that he is‚ they are looking for work and a new place to call home. The smell of body odor from being closed in the box car for such a long time with all of these people is overwhelming

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