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Analyze the effects of the Great Depression on the U.S. economy & society such as widespread unemployment & deportation & repatriation of people of Mexican heritage.
Analyze the effects of the Great Depression on the U.S. economy & society such as widespread unemployment & deportation & repatriation of people of Mexican heritage.
Economy
Widespread unemployment (NO JOBS!!) due to business failures.
Mexican Repatriation Act - Deportation & repatriation of people of Mexican heritage –In order to make more jobs available in the 1930s, the government deported many people of Mexican heritage.
Society
Soup/bread lines were common, as people could not afford to buy food for their families.
Hoovervilles - shantytowns for homeless people
Critics of the expansion of Federal Government during the Great Depression feared long-term effects of this power on the economy and society.
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