History of the United States II / Unit 11 USH2 1528 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Huey Long
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The idea
Huey Long, Louisiana's senator, broke with Roosevelt, calling the New Deal too conservative, and in early nineteen thirty-four launched Share Our Wealth.
In practice
A plan to tax annual incomes over a million dollars at one hundred percent, Digital History records.
Where people slip
The anchor counts over four million followers by nineteen thirty-five. The Yawp records his assassination late that year in the Louisiana State Capitol.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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