New Deal TERMS

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put young men to work building roads, parks, planting trees, & help in erosion-control projects

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Civilian Conservation Corps

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agency that monitors the stock market & enforces laws regulating the sale of stocks & bonds

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Securities and Exchange Commission

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alliance of diverse groups who supported the policies of the Democratic Party in the 30s & 40s

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New Deal coalition

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a government's spending of more money that it receives in revenue

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deficit spending

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federal corporation made to construct dams to provide source of power & flood control

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Tennessee Valley Authority

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an agency that provided young Americans with aid & employment during the Great Depression

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National Youth Administration

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actor, director, producer, & writer who created radio broadcast "The War of the Worlds"

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Orson Welles

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agency created to insure individuals' bank accounts, protecting against losses due to bank fail

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

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black woman appointed by FDR to head the National Youth Administration

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Mary McLeod Bethune

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law enacted 1933 to establish codes of far practice for industries & promote industrial growth

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National Industrial Recovery Act

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FDR's program to alleviate the problems of the Depression focusing on direct relief and reform

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New Deal

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the 1933 law that established the FDIC to protect individuals' bank accounts

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Glass-Steagall Act

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a government-supported level for the prices of ag products, intended to keep farmers' $ steady

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parity

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painter from Iowa famous for his painting American Gothic

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Grant Wood

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U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman ever appointed to the cabinet

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Frances Perkins

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enacted to provide aid to retirees, unemployed, disabled, and families with dependent children

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Social Security Act

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law that required corporations to provide complete, accurate info on all stock offerings

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Federal Securities Act

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novel by John Steinbeck that deals with a family of Okie who leave the Dust Bowl for California

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The Grapes of Wrath

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Louisiana senator who proposed a nationwide social program called Share-Our-Wealthq

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Huey Long

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provided the unemployed with jobs in construction, garment making, teaching, arts, and others

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Works Progress Administration

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a labor organization composed of industrial unions founded in 1938, merged with AFL in 1955

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Congress of Industrial Organizations

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agency created to prevent unfair labor practices & to mediate disputes between labor/management

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National Labor Relations Board

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benefited from the WPA as an author who wrote the acclaimed novel Native Son

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Richard Wright

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32nd President of the U.S. and implemented his New Deal to help America with the Depression

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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President FDR's wife who was a social reformer and great political figure

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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helped create the Indian Reorganization Act that moved toward Native American autonomy

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John Collier

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law to raise crop prices by paying farmers to leave a certain amount of their land unplanted

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Agricultural Adjustment Act

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enacted to protect workers' rights after the Supreme C declared the NIRA unconstitutional

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Wagner Act

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1939 movie dealing with the life of Southern plantation owners during the Civil War

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Gone with the Wind

New Deal TERMS

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New Deal TERMS

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