THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE DUST BOWL
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Gas rationing helped to reduce traffic in busy cities.
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Cotton prices were fixed to keep farmer on the land.
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Additional government funding was provided to oil companies.
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Thousands found employment building roads and bridges.
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Detailed explanation-1: -New Deal programs offered some relief, putting people to work building parks, highways, and public buildings and helping to improve farmland and agricultural practices. The legacy of these programs can be seen across today’s Texas. Workers built bridges, dams and roads.
Detailed explanation-2: -Roosevelt’s “New Deal” helped bring about the end of the Great Depression. The series of social and government spending programs did get millions of Americans back to work on hundreds of public projects across the country.
Detailed explanation-3: -The increasing pressures of the Great Depression caused President Roosevelt to back a new set of economic and social measures Prominent among these were measures to fight poverty, to counter unemployment with work and to provide a social safety net.