Coming to America - 1850 - 1914
Top immigrants - Irish, German, Latin American, Eastern European, Italian
Statue of liberty
1886
Chemical exports (1914 - 1917)
x13
Iron & steel exports (1914 - 1917)
x4.5
Number of millionaires (1914 - 1928)
x5
Franklin D. Roosevelt term
1933 - 1945
Emergency quota act
1921, restricts immigrants to 3%
Immigration act
1924, restrict immigrants to 2%
Causes of the Great Depression
Speculation, overproduction, inequal wealth distribution, less exportation
Industrial output declines
June 1929
Black Thursday
October 24 1929
Black Tuesday
October 29 1929
Hundred days of emergency powers
March - June 1933
Emergency banking act
Closes banks
TVA
Tennessee Valley Authority, damns on the Tennessee river
PWA
Public works administration, finances roads, schools
NRA
National Recovery Administration, outlaws child labour
Second new deal
1935, WPA, works progress administration, creates jobs, REA, rural electrical administration, electricity for agricultural areas