The Great Depression

ICW/HEHJanuary 21, 2012

What Caused the Great Depression?

DJIA 1990s

Bank RunAmerican Union Bank, NYC, 1931

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Did the New Deal Ameliorate or Worsen the Depression?

Ferdinand Pecora andJ.P. Morgan Jr.

A. Philip Randolph, John Lewis, Luisa Moreno

How did the Depression and the New Deal Change Americans’ Relationship to Government?

Construction of Grand Coulee Dam 1938(wikimedia commons)

Rural Electrification, Buffalo Co. Nebraska, 1938

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION RESULTS 1928-1932-1936

REP DEM

1928 58 411932 40 571936 37 61

Crystal Bird Faucet and Eleanor Roosevelt(1942)

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Dorothy Lange, “Migrant Mother,” (1936)

How did the New Deal Change American Social Relations?(Coit Tower Mural, San Francisco)

Sullivan’s Travels (1941)