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America During The Great Depression: A Character Analysis
"Our national motto is 'In God we Trust' reminding us that faith in our Creator is the most important American value of all" (Marco Rubio). As a nation, America has been built upon tribulation, affliction, problem solving, and commemoration. We have been built up as whom we are because not only through the things we have gone through, but also by the people who have created America's character. During the time of the Great Depression, America was falling because of discrimination and whom they were viewed as. America has had many instances where people had to go through the worst things possible, just for some American's to be satisfied. The United States went through many events who we have become such as the Scottsboro trials, Little Rock

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