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| A group of unemployed veterans of WWI who gathered in Washington in 1932, demanding payment of service bonuses not due until 1945. |
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| Congress of Industrial Organizations |
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| An alliance of industrial unions that spurred the 1930s organizational drive among the mass-production industries. |
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| A one-party dictatorship closy aligned with corporate interests, committed to a "biological world evolution," and determined to establish a new empire, The Third Reich. |
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| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) |
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| Government agency that guarantees bank deposits, thereby protecting both depositors and banks. |
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| Speeches broadcast nationally over the radio in which President Franklin Roosevelt explained complex issues and programs in plain language, as though his listeners were gathered around the fireside with him. |
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| The nation's worst economic crisis, extending throughout the 1930s, producing unprecedented bank failures, unemployment, and industrial and agricultural collapse and prompting an expanded role for the federal government. |
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| Shantytown, sarcastically named after President Hoover, in which unemployed and homeless people lived in makeshift shacks, tents, and boxes. |
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| The economic and political policies of the Roosevelt administration in the 1930s. |
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| Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) |
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| Federal agency with authority to regulate trading practices in stocks and bonds. |
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| Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) |
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| Federal regional planning agency established to promote conservation, produce electric power, and encourage economic development in 7 southern states. |
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