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| lame duck amendment, changed the date of the inaugrual to Jan 20 |
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| FDR speaks over the radio with easy manner and confidence regularly |
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| period between FDR's inaguration in March and June, he pushed programs to provide relief against the Great Depression |
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| FDR ordered all banks to close for 4 days when the gov. inspected the financial health of every single bank, after this Americans regained trust in the banks |
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| 1st woman appointed to a cabinet post, headed the New York State Industrial Commission, became Secretary of Labor |
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| held the highest position of any African American woman in the New Deal, former elementary school teacher, college president, founder of the National Council of Negro Women, Director of the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration, |
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| Mary Buthane forged a united stand among black officeholders by organizing a federal council on Negro Affairs |
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| Eleanor Roosevelt's newspaper column |
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| provides financial security, in the form of regular payments to people who couldn't support themselves |
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| first African American singer to perform at the white house, tried to rent Constitution Hall for a concert, who orginally denied but many including Eleanor Roosevelt rallied against her, she ended up performing on the steps of Lincoln Memorial |
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| group that spear-headed much opposition to the New Deal, league charged New Deal with limiting individual freedom in an unconstitutional manner, |
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| leader of the American Liberty League, former Democratic presidential canidate |
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| a demagogue (New Deal critics who manipulate people using scare tactics, half-truths, etc.) who used radio to broadcast his message, acheived popularity although he occasionally contradicted himself |
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| another demagogue who was a county lawyer who grew up in poverty, was a senator who came up with the Share-Our-Wealth program,involved the government taking much of most people's money with income tax |
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| individual income limited to 1 mil and inheritance to 5 mil, the gov would take the rest away through income taxes, then redistribute the wealth to poor-er familes |
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| government paying out more money from the annual federal budget than the gov. recieves, in hopes of stimulating the economy, |
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| FDR was unhappy with the supreme court, so he tried to add more judges who favored the New Deal, rather than opposed it, strong criticism forced him to withdraw this reform bill |
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| in '37 the government collapsed once again, nation entered a period of slow business activity |
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| United Mine Workers president who joined with several other AFL unions to change the ecomoic situation |
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| allowed viewers to escape into a whole different world, moviegoers flocked to musicals that feautred large orchestras and lavishly choreographed dance numbers, |
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| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
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| Walt Disney's first full-length cartoon movie, after Mickey Mouse was already delighting Depression audiences |
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