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46 Cards in this Set
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New Deal
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Roosevelts plan to change the country
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bank holiday
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it closed every bank in the nation for a few days
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FDIC
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Federal Doposit Insurance corporation
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Frances Perkins
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the secretary of labor
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CCC
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civilian conservation corps
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SEC
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Securities and Exchange commission
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John Maynard Keynes
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the new deal was made of of this guys ideas
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National Industrial recovery act
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Was passed in 1933 to stimulate industry and business
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AAA
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agricultural adjustment administration paid farmers to slow production of corn
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Tennessee Valley Authority
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it put people to work building govt things
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Robert Weaver
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he was a black who helped with racial discrimination
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Marian Anderson
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She gave a concert at the LIncoln memorial
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John Collier
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A social worker who observed the Indians living poor
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Francis Townsend
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a liberal reformer who opposed the new deal.
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charles coughlin
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a radio priest from michigan wurged govt to nationalize all banks to silver standard
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huey long
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a corrupt us senator from louisiana had a ratical new plan
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share-our-wealth
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the program the huey long proposed
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Works progress administration
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was designed to find americans work
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national youth administration1935
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it tried to help young people suceed
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mary mcleod bethune
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the director of the NYA
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Social security act
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was passed in 1935
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Wagner-conney act
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it guaranteed rights to organized unions
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congress of industrial organization
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It was a group who united workers in an industry
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sit down strike
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workers stayed in the factories but didn't work
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dust bowl
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a dry area in the great plains
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roy e stryker
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assembled a team of photographers to depict ppls lives
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walker evans
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a photgrapher
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gordon parks
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film maker
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margret bourke-white and dorothea lange
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some of the best know FSA photographers
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migrant mother
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langes famous photo of a woman and child
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federal project number one
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it sought to encourage american pride by promoting the arts
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john steinbeck
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he wrote the grapes of wrath
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the grapes of wrath
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a book about a poor family in the dust bowl
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Zora Neale Hurston
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wrote their eyes were watching god
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Richard Wright
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wrote Native Son
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gone with the wind
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novel by margret mitchell
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Frank Capra
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Director who filmed about the depression
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Thomas a Dorsey
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wrote songs Precious Lord Take my hand
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Aaron Copland
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wrote the song Billy the kid
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Mahalia Jackson
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a popular gospel singer
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benny goodman
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a white conductor of a integrated band
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Jacob Lawrence
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A harlem artist
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Georgia OKeeffe
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New mexico artist who portrayed images of the desert
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regionalists
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a group of artist who stressed folk and customs
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american gothic
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painted by grant wood
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Anna Grandma Moses
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a elderly famous painter
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