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Siteseen: American Historama: Good Neighbor Policy

For Students 9th - 10th
Features 13 detailed facts, effects, and significance of the Good Neighbor Policy that promised to improve US ties and relations with Latin America.
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Siteseen: American Historama: The Hundred Days Fdr

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides detailed facts and a summary of FDR's first hundred days (March 9 to June 16, 1933) when 15 major acts were passed in an attempt to relieve the devastating effects of the Great Depression.
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Lin and Don Donn: Lessons: World War Ii

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This web page is a personal site of lesson plans and unit plans regarding World War II. Innovative lessons are for a variety of grades.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Atlantic Charter

For Students 9th - 10th
Features 17 detailed facts and a summary of the Atlantic Charter that was the result of the 1941 meeting between FDR and Churchill.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Works Progress Administration

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover interesting facts and information about the Works Progress Administration established in April 1935 to provide light construction jobs for millions of unskilled workers.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Civilian Conservation Corps

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover interesting facts and information about the Civilian Conservation Corps that was established to employ young men to work on conservation projects and was created as part of FDR's New Deal Programs.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Glass Steagall Banking Act of 1933

For Students 9th - 10th
Read interesting facts about the Banking Act of 1933, or the Glass-Steagall Act. It prohibited commercial banks from engaging in the investment business and created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
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Siteseen: American Historama: Causes of the Great Depression

For Students 9th - 10th
Article provides detailed facts that explain the causes of the Great Depression.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Second New Deal

For Students 9th - 10th
Discussion of the programs and reforms launched in the period of the Second New Deal that provided for social and economic legislation to benefit the mass of working people.
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Siteseen: American Historama: National Recovery Administration

For Students 9th - 10th
Important facts and information about the creation of the National Recovery Administration (NRA) in June 1933.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Public Works Administration

For Students 9th - 10th
Important facts and information about the Public Works Administration created by the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 (PWA) for large scale public works projects.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Manhattan Project Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
Manhattan Project timeline with dates of important events and people who worked on the atomic bomb.
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Siteseen: American Historama: American Isolationism in the 1930's

For Students 9th - 10th
Interesting facts on the reasons and effects of American Isolationism policy in the 1930s.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Federal Emergency Relief Administration

For Students 9th - 10th
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) agency, the first mass public assistance program, was created to provide relief support to nearly 5 million households each month.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Tennessee Valley Authority (Tva)

For Students 9th - 10th
In May 1933, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was created to rejuvenate the region. It enabled the Federal government to develop and distribute cheap hydroelectric power (electricity) into rural areas that were not served by private...
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Siteseen: American Historama: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

For Students 9th - 10th
In June 1933 the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was created to restore confidence in the banks following the banking crisis during the Great Depression.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Securities and Exchange Commission

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that was established in June 1934 as an independent government agency to enforce federal securities laws to regulate the Stock Market and to prevent fraud.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Social Security Act of 1935

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides 15 detailed facts and a summary of one of the most important elements of FDR's New Deal program, the Social Security Act of 1935.