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Terms for March 16 & 18th
• 4 Major Causes of the Great Depression• Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)• Hooverville• Bonus Army• “End Poverty in California” (EPIC)• Townsend Plan• Social Security Act of 1935• The New Deal • The Second New Deal
Causes of the Great Depression
1. Stock market crash/lending crisis
2. Pre-1929 weaknesses in the US economy
3. Unequal distribution of wealth
4. Worldwide economic problems
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Begun April 1933: 3 million single, unemployed men ages 18-24. In 9 years accomplished:
• 89,000 miles of telephone line was installed• 126,000 miles of roads and trails were
constructed• 6,459,000 man-days were expended fighting
fires• 6,660,000 erosion control check dams were built
• 2,356,000,000 trees were planted