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  2. Great Depression in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression (1959). scholarly history online; Watkins, T. H. The Great Depression: America in the 1930s. (2009) online; popular history. Wecter, Dixon. The Age of the Great Depression, 1929–1941 (1948), scholarly social history online; Wicker, Elmus. The Banking Panics of the Great Depression (1996) White, Eugene N.

  3. Franklin D. Roosevelt - Wikipedia

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    Unemployment fell dramatically during Roosevelt's first term. It increased in 1938 ("a depression within a depression") but continually declined after 1938. [209] Total employment during Roosevelt's term expanded by 18.31 million jobs, with an average annual increase in jobs during his administration of 5.3%. [211] [212]

  4. Advancement Via Individual Determination - Wikipedia

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    Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) is a non-profit organization that provides professional learning for educators to close opportunity gaps and improve college and career readiness for elementary, middle and high school students, especially those traditionally underrepresented in higher education. AVID's College and Career ...

  5. Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act - Wikipedia

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    The Act and tariffs imposed by America's trading partners in retaliation were major factors of the reduction of American exports and imports by 67% during the Great Depression. [5] Economists and economic historians have agreed that the passage of the Smoot–Hawley Tariff worsened the effects of the Great Depression.

  6. This high school graduation video is making everyone cry

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    The video seamlessly cuts to kids jumping into the frame on the other side, now high school seniors clad in caps and gowns. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mr. Tausch ...

  7. Causes of the Great Depression - Wikipedia

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    The Great Depression: An Inquiry into the Causes, Course, and Consequences of the Worldwide Depression of the Nineteen-Thirties, as Seen by Contemporaries and in Light of History (1986) Garraty, John A. Unemployment in History (1978) Garside, William R. Capitalism in Crisis: International Responses to the Great Depression (1993) Haberler ...

  8. Timeline of the Great Depression - Wikipedia

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    Golden Fetters: The gold standard and the Great Depression, 1919–1939. 1992. Feinstein. Charles H. The European Economy between the Wars (1997) Garraty, John A. The Great Depression: An Inquiry into the causes, course, and Consequences of the Worldwide Depression of the Nineteen-Thirties, as Seen by Contemporaries and in Light of History (1986)

  9. Great Depression - Wikipedia

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    The term "The Great Depression" is most frequently attributed to British economist Lionel Robbins, whose 1934 book The Great Depression is credited with formalizing the phrase, [230] though Hoover is widely credited with popularizing the term, [230] [231] informally referring to the downturn as a depression, with such uses as "Economic ...