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1920s

• In the 1920s, the U.S.government put restrictionson immigration becausethere were strong feelingsof nativism in the U.S.

• NATIVISM: favoringnative-born inhabitants

of the U.S. overimmigrants

Teapot Dome Scandal

• The Teapot Dome Scandalinvolved illegally transferring oilreserved from the Navydepartment and acceptingbribes for leasing the land.

• This happened during WarrenHarding’s presidency.

• The effect of the Teapot DomeScandal was that Americansbegan losing trust in the U.S.government.



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Great Depression

• The major causes and economic factors that led to the GreatDepression:

1. Prior overproduction of manufactured goods

2. Decrease in demand for products after the stock market crashed

3. Buying stocks on margin (paying 10% of the stock price and payingthe other 90% back later, after you sold the stock)

4. Over-speculation in the stock market (buying LOTS of stocks onmargin)

Great Depression

• The major effects of theGreat Depression were:

1. High unemployment

2. Falling real estate values



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Great Depression

• Most banks in the UnitedStates were closed by1937 because a majorityof Americans were toopoor to have any moneyin savings in the bank.

Great Depression

• Dorothea Lange was a famousphotographer during the GreatDepression because her photosexpressed the pain and sufferingexperienced by Americans during the

Great Depression.



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The Dust Bowl

• Farmers’ actions led to the DustBowl because they dried up thetopsoil and used too much groundwater.

• The Dust Bowl occurred during theGreat Depression (1930s) on theGreat Plains (Texas, Oklahoma,Kansas and Colorado).

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Most farmers were forced to moveto the far west because of the DustBowl.

Mexican Repatriation Act

• The purpose of the Mexican Repatriation Act was to sendMexican-American immigrants back to Mexico.

• Repatriation: returning to your country of origin



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New Deal

• President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) created the New Deal torelieve the unemployed, recover the U.S. economy from the GreatDepression and reform the U.S. system to prevent a futuredepression.

• The guiding principle of the New Deal economic policies was that thegovernment must assume greater responsibility for helping theunfortunate.

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The New Deal changed American political thinking because thefederal government was now expected to solve social and economicproblems.

New Deal

• FDR used a system of “trial anderror” to fix the economy duringthe Great Depression.



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New Deal

• Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA): the government paid farmers fortheir surplus crops

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC): young men were given jobsplanting trees and cleaning up forests and sent most of their paycheckhome to their family

• CCC & Works Progress Administration (WPA) were created to help solve theunemployment problem—they put people back to work

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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA): provided jobs and improved thestandard of living in the Appalachia region of the U.S.

New Deal

• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) & Federal DepositInsurance Corporation (FDIC): supposed to restore the public’s faith infinancial institutions

• FDR responded to the change in the economy during the GreatDepression by created the Social Security Act and the Federal Deposit

Insurance Corporation (FDIC).

• Social Security made the government more responsible for thepeople’s economic welfare.



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New Deal

• President FDR justified his New Deal programs by saying that thegovernment should be responsible for Americans’ well-being.

• The New Deal continued the Progressive Era policy of the governmentregulating big business.

• President Hoover vs. President FDR

• FDR was more willing to use government intervention to solve economicproblems

•FDR believe that his plan for the New Deal was risky because theGreat Depression had threatened all Americans’ faith in theirdemocracy

Anti-FDR FDR haters)

• Conservatives thought FDR was giving the government too muchpower and too much control

• Conservatives thought FDR was endangering the free enterprisesystem

• Free enterprise: the system of supply and demand in the U.S.

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EX: The government doesn’t set the price of your iPhone. Apple sets the pricebased on how much it costs to produce the iPhone and how much theybelieve people will pay for the iPhone.

• Father Coughlin was an outspoken priest who thought the solution tothe Great Depression was to nationalize banks and utilities.

• Nationalize: give the government ownership and control



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FDR’s ourt-Packing Scheme

• FDR had a plan to add new, youngerSupreme Court justices with the goal ofguaranteeing the Supreme Court wouldsupport his New Deal programs.

• This plan was in conflict with theprinciple of checks and balancesbecause it would have given thePresident too much power.

• Most people were against FDR’sproposal because his power wouldincrease too much.

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