The first national voluntary health agency established in 1902 was the
A) American Cancer Society.
B) American Heart Association.
C) Sanitary Commission of Massachusetts.
<span>D) National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
The Answer D</span>
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In the 1920s, Nebraska and the nation as a whole had a lot of banks. At the beginning of the 20s, Nebraska had 1.3 million people and there was one bank for every 1,000 people. Every small town had a bank or two struggling to take in deposits and loan out money to farmers and businesses.
As the economic depression deepened in the early 30s, and as farmers had less and less money to spend in town, banks began to fail at alarming rates. During the 20s, there was an average of 70 banks failing each year nationally. After the crash during the first 10 months of 1930, 744 banks failed – 10 times as many. In all, 9,000 banks failed during the decade of the 30s. It's estimated that 4,000 banks failed during the one year of 1933 alone. By 1933, depositors saw $140 billion disappear through bank failures.
Video Interview Walter SchmittGresham, Nebraska, had two banks – one too many for that small town. The bank in danger of failure merged with the other. Gresham resident Walter Schmitt (right) remembers the deadly consequences for the owner of the failed bank.
When a new president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was inaugurated in March 1933, banks in all 48 states had either closed or had placed restriction
Explanation:
In "Wilson's War Message to Congress", he compares the German government to governments of the past. What he is hoping to convey is <em>the comparison attempts to make the German government look uncivilized and brutal</em>. In early 1917, diplomatic relations with Germany were getting worse. On April 1917, Wilson delivered this message to Congress. Four days later Congress decided that the U.S. should enter the war.
As inflation increased and the Roman Empire experienced greater political instability, there started to be uprisings and crime on the outskirts of the empire, which became harder and harder to put down--leading to the eventual fall of the Empire.
