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11 Cards in this Set
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Public Works Programs
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government -funded projects to build public facilities
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Political right
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Those who want to preserve a current system or power structure ( the wealthy were among these people)
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National debt
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total amount of money the federal government has borrowed and has yet to pay back
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Sit-down strikes
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workers stop work and refused to leave the premises
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Social Security Act
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Provided old-age pensions for workers; survivors' benifits for victims of industrial accidents; unemployment and aide for dependent mothers and children, disabled
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Wagner Act
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National Labor Relations Act passed by congress in July 1935. Spying on union activities and blacklisting
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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Held highest position of any black woman in the new deal. One oft the most influential spokespersons for African American concerns
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Political Left
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Seeks governmental change, sometimes radical change as a way to help the common people
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Demagouges
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New Deal critics who chaismatic leaders who manipulate people with half truths, deceptive promises and scare tactics
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Frances Perkins
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Secretary of labor. First women to hold a cabinet position
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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FDR's wife and most important colleagues. She held her own press confrences and traveled for FDR
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