HISTORY 40C Chapter Notes - Chapter 22: Bonus Army, Second New Deal, National Labor Relations Act
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The great depression caused massive underemployment and declining wages. It was caused by the stock marker crashing. The bottom had fallen on an already weak housing market. Demand for consumer goods fell precipitously leading factories to slow production: hawley-smoot tariff- bill passed in 1930 that raised american tariffs on foreign agricultural and manufactured goods by as much as 50 percent. Drastic difference from the 1920"s: many people were homeless and build makeshift towns in abandoned lots and parks. Hooverville- popular name for a shantytown built by homeless. Americans during the great depression: rural america. The depression exacerbated a decade-long problem of overproduction and lowered revenues. Oklahoma, nebraska, and texas that suffered punishing dust storms and droughts from the early 1930"s to the early 1940"s: radicalizing politics. Scottsboro boys- nine african american an boys accused of raping a white woman in scottsboro alabama in 1931, They were imprisoned although their guild was never established.