New York 19291941

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New York 1929-1941

• By
• Kristen Dickey

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Fiorello LaGuardia

• Worked as interpreter on Ellis Island
• 1916 elected to House of Representatives
• Campaigned for womens suffrage and end of child
  labor
• 1933 elected Mayor of New York City supported
  the New Deal
• Called the Little Flower

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Robert Moses

• Attempted to create a bold new city of the future
• Greatest builder of public works
• Reshaped a great metropolis
• Adapted a 19th century city to 20th century
  circumstances

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The Great Depression

• Time of economic gloom
• Greatest domestic crisis of the 20th century
• More than 13 million unemployed --- nearly 1/3 of
  the nations workforce
• Thousands of New Yorkers evicted from their homes

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The New Deal

• Led by Fiorello LaGuardia
• In large measure constructed in New York City
• Federal aid funds provided
• Transformed how people viewed the government
• Equalized relations between the regions

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Jimmy Walker

• 1914 elected to New York Senate
• Established Department of Sanitation
• Elected mayor
• Subject of investigation had large sums of money
  he could not explain
• Forced to resign

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Henry Ford

• Automobile age arrived
• Car becomes a brute force
• Changed automobile use by producing an affordable
  car
• Paid high wages to keep his workers happy
• Helped create a middle class

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Sources

• Documentary New York
• Episode Six City of Tomorrow, 1929-1941
• Fiorello LaGuardia
• http//www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USARlaguardia
  .htm
• Jimmy Walker
• http//www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAwalkerJ.ht
  m
• Henry Ford
• http//www.time.com/time/time100/builder/profile/f
  ord.html