During the early part of the Great Depression, the economy had ground to a halt as a result of the stock market crashing and the unemployment rates skyrocketed as businesses shut down. ... The cause of the Great Depression was really a result of shallow economical prosperity. ... Low prices, suppressed wages and production material prices, and lopsided distribution of income all influenced the spiraling effect of the Great Depression. ... Many believed that the United States would decline into dissolution and little faith was placed with the current policies of Herbert Hoover's administra...

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(Wills, 1997) Scots run was a scattering of mine camps in West Virginia, overrun with extreme poverty and unfit living conditions during the years of the Great Depression. ... ER raised money for the state to match funds with the Sheppard-Towner Act that established maternity and pediatric clinics. ... At the demonstration, ER was arrested for ignoring a police order to move on and charged with disorderly conduct. ... It only enables women to compete with men for jobs and does not really improve women's capability to change society." ... Eleanor also made a phenomenal influence in ci...

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