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15 Cards in this Set
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Frances Perkins |
First female cabinet member (secretary of labor) Major role in creating the social security system and supervised labor legislation |
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Federal Home Loan Bank |
Lowered mortgage rates for homeowners and allowed farmers to refinance their farm lands and avoid foreclosure |
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Brotherhood of sleeping car porters |
First all-black trade union |
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Mary McLeod Bethune |
Educator who dedicated herself to promoting opportunities for young African Americans Organized the "Black cabinet" |
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Wagner act |
Right to workers to join unions and engage in collective bargaining with empires. Prohibited unfair treatmemt |
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3 levels of security helped. |
1.old age insurance for retirees 65 or older and their spouses 2. unemployment compensation 3. system say to families with dependent children and disabled |
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Rural electrification administration |
Financed and worried with electrical cooperation to bring electricity to isolated areas |
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Fair Labor standards act |
Max 44 hrs per week (decreased to 40 hrs after 2 yrs) Min wage 25¢/hr (40 by 1945) |
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3 ex of how the president hindered the Civil Rights Movement |
NRA, CCC, TVA |
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Indian reorganization act |
Moved away from assimilation and toward Native American autonomy (self-rule) Helped restore some reservation lands to tribal ownership |
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New deal coalition |
An alignment of diverse groups dedicated to supporting the Democratic party Included: southern whites, various urban groups, African Americans, unionized industrialized workers |
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Memorial day massacr |
Police attack striking steelworkers outside of the republic steel plant in Chicago on Memorial day |
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Agricultural adjustments act |
Raise crop prices, lower prodiction |
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Tennessee valley authority |
Renovated 5 existing and constructed 20 new dams which created thousands of jobs, help with soil erosion, flood control, and hydroelectric power |
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Civilian conservation corps |
Young men we sent to work building roads, park, planting trees, helping in soil erosion , flood control projects |
