THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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Boulder Dam
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Social Security Act
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Rural Electrification Administration
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hoover Dam was born from early settlers’ dream of maintaining a stable, year-round water supply to help them live and thrive in the arid American Southwest. The dam was constructed during an era of doubt and insecurity, when Americans were suffering through The Great Depression.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hoover Dam, formerly called Boulder Dam, dam in Black Canyon on the Colorado River, at the Arizona-Nevada border, U.S. Constructed between 1930 and 1936, it is the highest concrete arch dam in the United States.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hoover Dam is named for Mr. Herbert Hoover, the Nation’s 31st president. When construction of the dam was initiated, on September 30, 1930, Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur ordered that the dam to be built in the Black Canyon of the Colorado as part of the Boulder Canyon Project Act be called “Hoover Dam".
Detailed explanation-4: -After Mr. Hoover left office, the names “Boulder Canyon Dam” and “Boulder Dam” were frequently used when referring to the dam, allegedly because the new Secretary of the Interior did not like Mr. Hoover. However, the name of the dam was never officially changed from “Hoover."