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| What year did the Stock Market crash? |
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| People pay only a fraction of the stock price and borrowed the rest from their brokers. |
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| Occured on October 24, panicked traders sold almost 13 million shares. |
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| What is an economic downturn? |
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| Fail to meet loan payments. |
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| What percent of American workers were out of work in 1932? |
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| People who lost their homes bulit shelters out of old boxes and other debris, these were known as? |
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| Another name for shantytowns? |
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| "Brother Can You Spare a Dime" |
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| What was a popular song in the 1930s during the Great Depression? |
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| What did FDR promise was right around the corner? |
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| What was aid for the needy? |
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| What were projects that created new jobs, like highways, parks, and libraries? |
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| Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) |
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| What was a Herbert Hoover agency that lent money to businesses. It also provided funds for state and local programs providing relief. Many saw this as too little, too late? |
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| What was the march on Washington? |
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| What FDR promised to the American people when he took the Democratic presidential nomination in 1932. His plan to beat the Great Depression, it becomes the cornerstore of all domestic policy under his administartion. |
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| Who was FDR's tireless partner in his public life and was known as his eyes and ears? |
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| What the name of a group of progressive lawyers, economists, and social workers who developed relief programs for the state? |
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| Fireside Chats, because he sat next to a fireplace in the White House |
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| What was another name for the presidents radio talks, and why? |
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| What was the special session of Congress that Roosevelt called to launch his programs? |
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| Civilan Conservation Corporation (CCC) |
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| One of the first agencies to be formed. It employed about 2.5 million young men. The jobs benefited the public through tree planting, flood control, and maintenance of national parks. It was, conceivably, the most popular of all the alphabet agencies. |
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| Tennesse Valley Authority (TVA) |
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| This agency aimed to control flooding, promote conservation, and bring electricity to rural areas. Along with the REA, highly controversial. |
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| Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) |
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| FDR appointed Harry Hopkins to lead this agency that gave money to the states tp provide relief for people in need, thereby providing funds to directly assist the needy. |
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| Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) |
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| This act had 2 goals: to raise farm prices quickly and to control production so that farm prices would stay up over the long term. It actually paid farmers to destroy what they had produced, and to leave land uncultivated. |
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| National Recovery Administration (NRA) |
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| Encouraged businesses to set up a minimum wage and abolish child labor. Tried to set standards for production, prices, and wages. The symbol for this agency is the blue eagle. |
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| Public Works Administration (PWA) |
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| Established in 1933, the goal of this agency was to stimulate the economy through the building of huge projects that needed large numbers of workers. It employed people to construct roads, shipyards, hospitals, city halls, and schools. |
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| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) |
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| This agency guaranteed that money placed in the bank would not be lost if banks failed. |
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| Social Security Act (SSA) |
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| Set up a system of pensions for the elderly, unemployed, and people with disabilities. This was funded by a tax on workers and employers. |
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| Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) |
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| This act, passed in 1938, banned mild labor, set a minimum wage of 90 cents per hour and established maximum hours for all businesses engaged in interstate commerce. Along with the Wagner Act it formed the basis of a labor rights. |
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| Farm Security Administration (FSA) |
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| This agency lent money to sharecroppers and set up camp for migrant workers |
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| National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) |
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| Also called the Wagner Act. FDR believed this was the most important law ever passed. It was intended to boost the economy by making business regulate itself. It created the NRA and PWA |
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| Works Progress Administartion (WPA) |
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This agency gave people jobs. The employees built or repaired an enormous number of airports, building, bridges, and miles of roads. Found work for unemployed writers, artists, and musicans who documented life in America |
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| Rural Electrification Administartion (REA) |
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| 1935, loaned money to extend electricity to rural areas. Groups apposed the federal government's involvement in developing and distributing electric power. Utility companies believed that government was unfairly competing with enterprise |
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| Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) |
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| Designed to protect the public against fraud, deception, and inside manipulation on Wall Street. |
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| The first woman to serve in cabinent |
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| the first woman to be elected to the United States Senate. |
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| An African American that was in charge of the military's blood plasma program, during WWII. |
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| The name given to the area of the southern Great Plains severly damaged by droughts and dust storms during the 1930s. |
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| A person who moves from place to place to find work harvesting fruits and vegetables. |
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| When was Roosevelt's inauguration? |
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| Robert Weever, Ralph Bunche, Mary McLeod Bethune |
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| Who were 3 of the members of the Black Cabinet? |
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| Who was head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, who introduced a set of reforms known as the Indian New Deal? |
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| Indian Reorganization Act |
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| What law restored traditional tribal government and provided money for land purchases to enlarge some reservations? |
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| What is the political philosophy that holds the individual second to the nation and advocates government by dictatorship? |
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| What group advocates extreme and immediate change? |
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| Germany and Italy supported fascistswho were trying to take over the Spanish government. |
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| Light or romantic entertainment that helped people forget about their problems. |
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| A screen version of John Steinback's powerful novel about farm families fleeing the Dust Bowl. |
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| Film of Margaret Mitchell's novel that was set in the Civil War era, that portrayed people coping with hard times. |
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| Who was Margaret Bourke-White and Dorothea Lange? |
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| Who was a Detroit preist who reached millions of listeners through his weekly radio program? |
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| Who was a California doctor who rose to fame with his plan for a monthly pension? |
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| FDR launched a new set of programs and reforms, called? |
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| This act raised taxes on wealthy people and corporations |
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| Payments by the government for a limited period of time to people who have lost their jobs. |
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| Head of the United Mine Workers |
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| American Federation of Labor (AFL) |
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| What represented only skilled workers? |
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| Congress of Industrial Organizations |
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| What created industrial unions? |
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