The Great Depression
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This period, from the late 1920s and lasting into the '40s,was the worst and longest economic collapse in the history of the modern industrial world.
What is the Great Depression?
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From 1932 onward, he was the President during the Depression.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
300
How did people's habits and lifestyles change during the Depression?
From the experience of great loss and hardship, some people developed habits of saving and preserving wealth to avoid the shortages of the depression experience again.
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This phrase is what President Roosevelt's economic policie and social programs were called.
What is the New Deal?
500
What was it that really caused the end of the Depression?
World War 2 -- it put men to work in wartime service, and for the first time, women became a major part of the workforce, producing supplies for the military.
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Identify the speaker of this quote: "Well, Indian-heads -- well, they come from the Indians. They're real strong magic, they make you have good luck. Not like fried chicken when you're not lookin' for it, but things like long life 'n' good health, 'n' passin' six-weeks tests... these are real valuable to somebody. I'm gonna put 'em in my trunk."
It was Jem who spoke these words, after he and Scout found two Indian head coins in the Radleys' oak tree.
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