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The Great Depression 1 - A job at Ford's

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Roland Yiu
Published on Oct 13, 2012

A Job at Ford's episode 1 (60 min.) Just before the advent of the Great Depression, Henry Ford controlled the most important company in the most important industry in the booming American economy. His offer of high wages in exchange for hard work attracted workers to Detroit, but it began to come apart when Ford hired a private police force to speed up production and spy on employees. After the depression hit in 1929, these workers faced a new, grim reality as unemployment skyrocketed.

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The Great Depression 2 - The road to rock bottom

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Roland Yiu
Published on Oct 13, 2012

The Road to rock bottom episode 2 (60 min.) As the Great Depression progressed economic collapse took its toll on rural America. Crops went unsold, farm mortgages were called in by banks, hungry farmers protested, and robberies increased dramatically. The U.S. Army was called in to defend the nation's capital from veterans who were demanding that President Hoover and Congress pay a bonus for their services in World War I. The film ends with Franklin Roosevelt's landslide election to the presidency.

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The Great Depression 3 - New Deal, New York

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Roland Yiu
Published on Oct 13, 2012

New Deal/New York episode 3 (60 min.) In his first one hundred days in office, in a effort to stem the effects of the Great Depression, President Roosevelt created many new federal agencies giving jobs and relief to people and transforming the American landscape with public works projects. Nowhere was this transformation more apparent than in Mayor Fiorello La Guardia's New York City. Together Roosevelt and La Guardia expanded and redefined the role of government in the lives of the American people.

history repeats itself

Originally Posted by Airbornesapper07

history repeats itself

Only if you didn't learn from it.

Originally Posted by Judy

Only if you didn't learn from it.

but its the same organization causing it

Originally Posted by Airbornesapper07

but its the same organization causing it

Yes, it is, isn't it? Time to pass the FairTax and shut it down.

VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2018!!!

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The Great Depression 4 - We have a plan

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Roland Yiu
Published on Oct 13, 2012

We have a plan episode 4 (60 min.) By 1934 challenges to the New Deal came from both sides of the political spectrum. In California Socialist Upton Sinclair ran for Governor promising to turn idle land and factories into self-governing cooperatives. Sinclair's campaign ended in defeat, but one year later President Roosevelt's signing of the Social Security Act signaled America's emergence as a modern welfare state.

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