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12 Cards in this Set
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forbidding by law the making and selling of alcoholic beverages |
prohibition |
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an organization that worked to stop the sale of alcoholic beverages |
Women's Christian Temperance Union |
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a tax on resources taken from the land such as oil and gas |
severance tax |
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a secret, racist organization that used violence and intimidation against those , especially immigrants and minorities, whose behavior or actions they did not like |
Ku Klux Klan |
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a state commission whose job it was to regulate transportation and communication companies : originally called the Railroad Commission |
Public Service Commission |
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a break in the levee |
Crevasse |
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the process of bringing charges of wrongdoing against a public official while that official is still in office |
impeachment |
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To remove or suppress |
Censor |
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Huey Long's economic program that would have eliminated poverty by giving every family a minimum income; the program also called for providing an old-age pension for elderly people |
Share Our Wealth Program |
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The depression that began in 1929 with the stock market crash that later until the 1940s |
Great Depression |
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A New Deal program that provided work for single young men between the ages of 18-25; the young men did soil conservation, work, and some did road construction |
Civilian Conservation Corps |
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A New Deal program that provided work for men with families; the men built schools, courthouses, parks, and other public buildings; the WPA also hired artists to paint murals on public buildings and writers to compile county information |
Works Progress Administration |
