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     The Federal Housing Act, or FHA, was created in 1934. The National Housing Act actually created the FHA. It was created to regulate the rate of interest and the terms of mortgages that it insured. Because of the FHA, more people could afford a d

the 1932 election was hoover against FDR.  The election was in the middle of the Great Depression, which Hoover was president when everything started to go downhill.  FDR won in a landslide.  the electoral vote was 472 to 59 and the percentages were

Movies in the 1930's
(The Golden Age of Hollywood)

     The 1930's introduced many new things some bad, some good. The movie industry is and was considered to be one of the better things. Even though it was the time of the Great Depression and the Sto

1936 Presidential Election

Between:

Franklin D. Roosevelt                                                                 Alf Landon

This election took place on November 3, 1936.  I personally have never heard of Alf Landon and

     The Great Depression also had it's affects on movies along with other businesses. A lot of people stopped going to movies, or they didn't go as often as they once had. From 1930-1933, the prices of tickets for the movies went from being 30 cents

Hoovervilles:

One of the main causes of the Great Depression was the Stock Market crash. The President at the time of the Stock Market crash was Herbert Hoover. Herbert Hoover believed strongly in the lassiez-faire approach to governing the United Sta

For my assigned blog I have Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange was a photographer and Photojournalist, she was best known for working for the Farm Security Administration (FSA) during the depression era. Her photos humanized the consequences of the G.D and

Public Works Administration is what I have for my assigned blog. PWA is short for Public Works Administration. This was a part of the New Deal which took place in the year 1933. This consisted of a large range of public workers within agencies in the

Home Owners Loan Corporation

     HOLC, Home Owners Loan Corporation was created in June 1933.  Franklin Roosevelt was the creator of this new deal.  It was created to assist in refinancing of many homes.  It was also to help stabilize real estate tha

Women had so many different struggles during the Great Depression, ranging from taking care of the children to finding a place to sleep at night. Women took care of the kids while the men worked or tried finding jobs, this was exhausting for them. So

Sports in the 30's

In 1939 seventeen million people attended baseball games in America. Three years later only eleven million could attend, and this was because of the Great Depression. Baseball was a very popular sport in the 1920's and the 1930's bu

     The CCC stands for Civilian Conservation Corps. The CCC helped men who were unemployed to find jobs, this only happened because Herbert Hoover was their President at the time. After his term was up, they turned to there next president step into

My topic for this blog is going to be the election of '36. The election was the most one-sided election in the history of the United States. Roosevelt won the election by a landslide. He needed to get 266 electoral votes to win and he received 523, a

              During the Great Depression era over 123 million Americans were unemployed in the year 1932. President Herbert Hoover was doing his best to prevent a larger fall in the stock market and provide some sort of aid to the American people. B

Bonus army is what my assigned blog is over.

The bonus army was a march that was around 17,000 veterans and 26,000 other people. world war l veterans who marched in Washington D.C. in the summer of 1932 and there families marched to. also the affiliat

Great Depression and Sports

Sports weren't affected by the depression nearly as bad as other businesses, but it was definitely affected. Many cities were left in wonder if they could continue on to the building of their projects to building stadiums.

     Everyone has heard of an interesting fact section of different magazines, newspapers, etc. I thought, why not find a few facts about the Great Depression that aren't very well known? 

     We've all probably heard of Hoovervilles, where people li

The Great Depression took its turn on the movie industry just like it did on other businesses. People stopped going to movies, or at least made their appearance less common. From 1930-1933, the prices of tickets went from 30 cents to 20 cents and the

               The Social Security Act was drafted during President Roosevelt’s first term. On August 15, 1935; President Roosevelt signed the social security act as a part of the Second New Deal. Roosevelt became the first president to promote feder