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21 Cards in this Set
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New Deal
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Congress approved all 15 measures that made up the heart of of the presidents program
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Bank holiday
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Designed to stop massive withdrawals
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FDIC
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Confidence in banks increased even more when congress created this in June 1933
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Frances Perkins
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Secretary of labor
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Harry L. Hopkins
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Former relief supervisor in New York
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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Congress established it in 1933
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Securities and exchange commission
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Regulates companies that sell stocks and bonds
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John Maynard Keynes
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A Noted British economist
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National industrial recovery act
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Stimulate industrial and business activity and reduce unemployment
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Agricultural adjustment administration
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Paid farmers to reduce their output of corn, cotton, dairy products, hogs, rice, tobacco, wheat, and other commodities
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Tennessee valley authority
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Created in May 1933, transformed the economic and social life of the region
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Robert C. Weaver
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Held a Ph.D. In economics from Harvard
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John Collier
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Observed the poor living conditions in American Indian communities
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Marian Anderson
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World famous African singer
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Francis E. Townsend
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Liberal reformer who opposed the New Deal
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Charles E. coughlin
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Radio priest from Michigan
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Huey long
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Colorful but corrupt US senator from Louisiana
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Share-our-Wealth
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1934 Long proposed a new kind of relief program
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Works progress administration
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President Roosevelt created this
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National Youth Administration
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WPA tried help young people between the age 16 and 25
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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Member of the black cabinet
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