Mexican Americans and the Great Depression
Naturalization
A legal process to obtain citizenship
Social Security Act of 1935
Created both the Social Security Program and a national assistance program for poor children, usually called AFDC.
Good Neighbor Policy
FDR's foreign policy of promoting better relations w/Latin America by using economic influence rater than military force in the region
Farm Security Administration
Lent money to sharecroppers and tenant farmers to help them buy their own farms; established camps for migrant workers
Black Tuesday
October 29, 1929; date of the worst stock-market crash in American history and beginning of the Great Depression.
Mexican Repatriation, 1929-1939
Special law authorized by President Hoover to send Mexican-American immigrants back to Mexico. More than half a million Mexican-Americans were forcibly sent back to Mexico during the Great Depression, many of whom were lawful American citizens, separated from their families.
Rugged Individualism
The belief that all individuals, or nearly all individuals, can succeed on their own and that government help for people should be minimal.
Desegregation
The ending of authorized segregation, or separation by race.
New Deal
The name of President Roosevelt's program for getting the United States out of the depression
Social Security
federal program of disability and retirement benefits that covers most working people
Assimilation
the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another