THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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wrote a book that Abraham Lincoln said had helped to start the Civil War.
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wrote Gone With the Wind, a popular novel set in the Civil War period.
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was part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal policies and was responsible for putting Georgians to work.
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Oversaw the Social Security program in Georgia in the 1930’s.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Gone with the Wind, novel by Margaret Mitchell, published in 1936. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1937. Gone with the Wind is a sweeping romantic story about the American Civil War from the point of view of the Confederacy.
Detailed explanation-2: -Mitchell wrote Gone with the Wind in a tiny ground-floor apartment in Atlanta that she liked to call “the dump.” Mitchell and her husband, John Marsh, moved into the apartment on their wedding day, July 4, 1925.
Detailed explanation-3: -Atlanta native Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel of the Civil War (1861-65) and Reconstruction in Georgia, Gone With the Wind, occupies an important place in any history of twentieth-century American literature.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1926, to relieve the boredom of being cooped up with a broken ankle, Mitchell began to write Gone With the Wind. Setting up her Remington typewriter on an old sewing table, she completed the majority of the book in three years.
Detailed explanation-5: -Gone with the Wind is a novel by American writer Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.