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39 Cards in this Set
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Hundred Days
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it was the hundred days that Roosevelt was in office then Inagaurated.
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NRA
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national recovery administration
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AAA
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agricultural adjustment administration
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Harry Hopkins
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director of the relief program, brought in by roosevelt.
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WPA
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Works progress administration
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Townsend plan
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gives everyone a monthly pension of 200$ with the proviso that it must be spent within thirty days.
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Social Security act
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most significant reform act enacted in 1935.
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Wagner Act
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outlaw unfair labor practices and outlaw company unions
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NLRB
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same as Wagner act
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John L Lewis
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Head of United mine workds and took the lead in forming the committee on industrial organiz.
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Liberty League
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a group willing to get rid of the "new deal"
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CCC
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Civilian conservation corps
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Bonus Army
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wwi veterans who wanted money. Yo, I know you owe me dat money...due to us in 1945 but it's my money and I need it now!
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PWA
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Public works administrator
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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was the First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the New Deal policies of her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and became an advocate for civil rights.
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Charles Evans Hughes
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United States jurist who served as chief justice of the United States Supreme Court
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Fireside Chats
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The fireside chats were a series of thirty evening radio speeches given by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944
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TVA
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TVA is a privately-owned French language television network in Canada. The network is currently owned by Groupe TVA Inc. , a publicly-traded subsidiary of Quebecor Media
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Court Packing
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Scheme by Roosevelt designed to prevent the conservative Supreme Court from dismantling his New Deal. He proposed to appoint an additional justice for each justice over the age of seventy.
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REA
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A credit agency of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) which assists rural electric and telephone utilities to obtain financing. REA was established by Executive Order No. 7037 of May 11, 1935, and given statutory authority by the Rural Electrification Act of 1936
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New Deal
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•The New Deal was a series of economic programs passed by Congress during the first term of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States, from 1933 to his reelection in 1937. Few new programs were enacted after 1936, and many agencies were disbanded during World War II. ...
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New Deal Coalition
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•The New Deal Coalition was the alignment of interest groups and voting blocs that supported the New Deal and voted for Democratic presidential candidates from 1932 until approximately 1968, which made the Democratic Party the majority party during that period, losing only to Dwight D.
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Indian Reorganization Act
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•The Indian Reorganization Act of June 18, 1934, also known as the Wheeler-Howard Act or informally, the Indian New Deal, was a U.S. federal legislation which secured certain rights to Native Americans, including Alaska Natives
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Great Depression impact on political parties
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it lead to hardships on the leaders because people had lost faith in the governmant, which basically lead it to termoil.
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New Deal impact on women, African Americans, Mexicans
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opened up more jobs to them
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CIO
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•Congress of Industrial Organizations: a federation of North American industrial unions
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CIO
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industrial union formed by john l lewis to organize unskilled labor
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CWA
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civil works administration. work program during new deal to improve public land
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Harold Ickes
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FDR's SEC. of interior, Headed new deal programs such as PWA
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UAW
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united auto workers, part of CIO
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Hattie Carraway
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first woman elected to senate
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FSA
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farm security administration, loaned money to tenant farmers to buy land
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Federal Farm Board
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clearing house type program to keep prices high and fight overproduction
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Fair Labor Standards Act
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established national minimum wage
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“Hooverville’s”
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towns of shacks built by homeless
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Charles Coughlin
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headed union party, opposed FDR to the left
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Huey Long
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extreme leftist who opposed FDR, called for redistributing wealth
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Francis Townsend
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physician who backed pensions for elderly, inspired social security
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Alf Landon
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rep candidate in 1936
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