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The Great Depression- Poverty and Unemployment

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=The Great Depression and the New Deal= The Great Depression was a very bad time for the United States. Unemployment rates were at an all-time high, the number of foreclosures was increasing, and poverty was seen everywhere. families were forced to leave their homes, fathers left their families to go out in search of jobs, and people were doing just about anything to get some money. Everyone was affected by the depression.

FDR wanted to help America get out of the depression. He created the New Deal to do this. Most people believe that the New Deal helped the United States. However, some disagree. There was some opposition to the New Deal. In 1935 and 1936, the Supreme Court declared some aspects of the New Deal unconstitutional. FDR responded to this by trying to appoint new judges that agreed with him. He only got one new judge in, however, he still won. Conservatives were alo in opposition to the

New Deal. They felt that it went to far. Supporters of the New Deal argued that it eased many problems such as reforming the stock market and saving poor families. Those who were against it, however, said that it gave too much power to the federal government and still didn’t end the depression. They also worried that the New Deal caused too much national debt, because the New Deal programs used a lot of money.

Reflection
I had a lot of challenges during the making of my video. The first of them being getting the pictures to match up with what I was saying in the recording. The timing was just never right and I ended up having to re-record the entire thing and re-organize all of my pictures so that it would work out. I never really used iMovie before, so this was kind of hard because I didn’t really know what I was doing, but other than that it was okay. I learned how to use it correctly and how to do a lot of things with it.