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44 Cards in this Set
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This president was shy, honest, and frugal
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Coolidge
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FDIC
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Federal Deposit INsurance Corp.
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He wrote the Sun Also Rises
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Ernest Hemingway
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His plan was "Share the Wealth" and "Make Every Man a King"
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Long
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This first cabinet member to go to jail
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Albert B. Fall
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His campaign slogan was "return to normalcy"
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Harding
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The groups of people discriminated against by the quota system
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Southern and Eastern Europeans
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The reason Japan left the League of Nations
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League tried to get them out of Manchuria, and instead, they just left the League
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As Secretary of Treasury, his policies lowered the national debt
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Mellon
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FERA
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Federal Emergency Relief Act
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He is best known for his efforts to promote efficiency
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Frederic Taylor
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Central character in The Man Nobody Knows
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Jesus Christ
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Wrote Great Gatsby
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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He failed to "pack" the court
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FDR
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CWA
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Civil Works Administration
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He was known as the "father of progressive education"
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John Dewey
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CCC
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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wrote Gone with the Wind
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Margaret Mitchell
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Organization that attacked New Deal and campaigned against FDR in 1936
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American Liberty League
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Radio talk show host hat promoted "social justice"
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Father Coughlin
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This president's handling of the Bonus Army hurt his public image
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Hoover
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This president has a mediocre mind, difficulty detecting moral weakness and an unwillingness to say "no" to associates/friends
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Harding
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first public enemy #1
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John Dillinger
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The nonbusiness froup that realized the most lasting gains from WWI
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Labor Unions
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Founder of the United Negro Improvement Association
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Marcus Garby
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EBRA
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Emergency Banking Relief Act
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Wrong Main Street
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Sinclar Lewis
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Critic who supported pensions for the elderly
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Townshend
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KKK's position on prohibition
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For
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38% tariff rates
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Fordney-McCumber Tariff
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60% increase in tariff rates
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff
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Major problem facing farmers in the 1920s
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Over-production
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Established to make loans to businesses, banks, and state/local gov'ts
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RFC- Reconstruction Finance Corp.
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He believe that the Depression would come to an end if people maintained faith in the American industrial system
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Hoover
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The reason France and Great Britain insisterd that Germany paid its debts
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Us insists it be repaid
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The most urgent prblem facing FDR when he took office in 1933
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Banking Situation
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The New Deal agency created to deal with the major problem facing farmers
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AAA- Agricultural Adjustment Act
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The agency helped move Dust Bowl victims to better land
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Resettlement Administration
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Aimed at insuring that investors received accurate information regarding stocks
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Federal Security Act
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The amendment which ended prohibiton
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21st
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The New Deal agency responsible for the contruction of the Lincoln Tunnel, Triborough Bridge, and Bonneville dams
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WPA- Work Progress Administration
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Its first chief was Joseph P. Kennedy
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SEC- Security and Exchange Comissions
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He was on the losing ed of the most lopsided victory in 116 years
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Alfred Landon
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This president helped secure American drilling rights in the middle east
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Harding
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