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    The document discusses how the United States economy and social programs would be different if the Great Depression had not occurred. Key programs like Social Security, the Tennessee Valley Authority, farm bills, and the Works Progress Administration would not exist today as they were created during the Great Depression to provide relief. The economy would also be fundamentally changed without the major downturn of the Great Depression shaping policies and rebuilding efforts in its aftermath.

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    The document discusses how the United States economy and social programs would be different if the Great Depression had not occurred. Key programs like Social Security, the Tennessee Valley Authority, farm bills, and the Works Progress Administration would not exist today as they were created during the Great Depression to provide relief. The economy would also be fundamentally changed without the major downturn of the Great Depression shaping policies and rebuilding efforts in its aftermath.

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    What if the Great Depression never

    happened in the United States?


    Things wouldnt be built
    Crowd of people at
    Union Bank in New
    York early in the
    Great Depression

    Laws and Bills

    Ended the Prohibition


    law on December 5,
    1933!
    Signed Tennessee Valley
    Authority Act into law
    on May 18, 1933!
    Congress passed the
    Farm Bill in 1933!
    Franklin Roosevelt
    signed the Social
    Security Act on August
    14, 1935

    A picture of Florence Owens


    Thompson, a mother of seven
    children in Nipomo, California.

    Works Cited:!

    !
    !

    Unemployed men
    outside a depression
    soup kitchen in Chicago

    If the Great Depression


    never happened in the
    United States, the economy
    wouldnt be the same as it
    is today.
    Social Security

    !
    !
    !

    On April 8, 1935 Works


    Progress Administration was
    founded!
    WPA provided jobs for
    unemployed people!
    Focused on building post
    offices, bridges, schools,
    highways and parks!
    Gave jobs to artists, writers,
    theater directors and
    musicians

    Federal program with social


    insurance and benefits that was
    developed in 1935 !
    It was developed to help families
    who couldnt support themselves!
    Originally part of President Franklin
    Roosevelts plan to bring America
    out of the depression!
    Its still here today and is now
    funded by payroll taxes

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