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those who want to help the poor, such as in the 1930s. There was relatively little opposition to Roosevelts New Deal because times...
the "loyal opposition" that he believed is needed in order for the two-party system to work best. He opposed FDR seemingly at eve...
barbarism. Capitalism was at the forefront of crisis during this catastrophic period. Of the primary players that subjecte...
and set off to search for a way to survive. They were a people, a family, that illustrated how "The movement of people on the Plai...
with little respect for or understanding of any other generation that did not share in the same advancements. Harv just thinks Ma...
and Medicare. With these policies people were no longer destitute if they were to lose their jobs. Legislation also sprang forth t...
Krugman focuses on the cause of the collapse, noting that defeating inflation (i.e., using more dollars to buy products) is one re...
poor and the "undeserving." Day and Maurin shocked traditionalists by welcoming drunkards and other men down on their luck, which ...
the stock market crash of October 1929 that blindsided everyone even though there had been disturbing warning signs surfacing week...
truly present itself as a state that truly marginalized such people. While California had always been a state, not unlike any othe...
period of time that argued that the economic policies of the government were too conservative and that it was largely at fault for...
effect was worse due to the number of people who had bought their stock with borrowed money and were forced to liquidate capital t...
Today, people know when they put their money in the bank, it is insured by the government, at least up to a certain amount of mone...
deemed suitable: nursing, teaching, office work (until marriage), waitressing, and domestic service" (p. 475). There were the femi...
America would accomplish this destiny "under God" (Manifest destiny). This belief would give America all the justification it nee...
portrayal of some shocking events of the thirties" (French 43). Its various conflicts consider the downside of American capitalis...
diverse. It is important to note that California, at the time the gold rush started, was not a state. Like many other territories ...
were beginning to lose faith in the entire banking system, and to prevent a catastrophe, Roosevelt ordered the banks closed ("The ...
In addition, "[M]ost of the major railroads failed" (Panic of 1873, 2005). While the public tended to blame the government, the c...
would become insolvent. This was not so unusual. What was unusual about the 1930s-around the time that the Bailey Savings and Loan...
a continuing source of weakness" the true brunt of agricultures influence came with the Great Dust bowl and all the devastating re...
of laissez faire, which Soros quite appropriately described as Market Fundamentalism" (Petrov). But the free market mechanism has ...
the guts to call Adam Smith, the so-called father of economics "not the brightest light in the galaxy?" Or who would consider John...
the U.S. (and the rest of the world) out of it. None of this is exactly true, but if you try to pinpoint the exact cause of the Gr...
the fields. It describes the tent cities, the illness and death, the hardships and most of all the despair of this particular era ...
the early twentieth century, the United States was still very much an agrarian or agricultural economy. After the First World War...
should have seen the 2000s coming. The student notes that attention to things in the history of the U.S. might have averted or mit...
In many ways the social failure of America as a whole at this time in history is symbolized by the personal failure experienced...
dealing with in regard to racism and discrimination actually can be traced all the way back to the original colonization of this c...
with seemingly no end in sight. With businesses continuing to fail at record levels and unemployment rates at an all-time high, i...