History of the United States I / Unit 9 USH1 1224 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Relief
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The idea
Congress answered the depression with the Land Law of eighteen twenty and the Relief Act of eighteen twenty-one.
In practice
Federal legislation easing the terms on which western land had been bought.
Where people slip
Relief went to landholders in debt. There was no comparable measure for the unemployed workers of entry 1223.
Your place on the trail
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