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Standard USHC.4.CE

USHC.4.CE Evaluate significant turning points, including the immediate and long-term causes and effects of the business cycles of capitalism.

Grade(s): 11

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

The Great Depression | South Carolina's Greatest Generation 1

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The Great Depression | South Carolina's Greatest Generation

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This segment documents the era of the Great Depression. It was a decade of misery that started with the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Across the nation in the 1930s, 15 million were unemployed. Thirty...

Civilian Conservation Corps | History of SC Slide Collection

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Civilian Conservation Corps | History of SC Slide Collection

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One of the most popular of all the New Deal efforts to provide relief during the depression was the creation of the Civilian Conservation Corps. The CCC was designed to take young men who did not have...

Sewer Line in Hampton, SC, A Works Progress Administration Project | History of SC Slide Collection

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Sewer Line in Hampton, SC, A Works Progress Administration Project | History of SC Slide Collection

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The program of the New Deal that touched the most individuals was probably the Works Progress Administration, better known as the WPA. Created in 1935, its purpose was to put people of all ages and...