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24 Cards in this Set
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Emergency Banking Act
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Authorized the government to inspect the financial health of all banks.
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Civil Works Administration
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Gave the Unemployed jobs building or improving roads, parks, airports, and other facilities.
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Indian Reorganization Act
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Ended the sale of tribal lands begun under the Dawes act and restored ownership of unallocated lands to Native American groups.
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National industrial Recovery Act(NIRA)
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Sought to bolster those prices and thus help businesses and individuals.
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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To insure deposits up to $5,000.
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New Deal
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Proposals and Programs adopted by president Franklin roosevelt in response to the Great Depression; included social and economic programs and changes in government regulation.
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Fireside Chats
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FDR went on radio every sunday and talked to the people about the New Deal.
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Hundred Days
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1st 100 days of FDR's term of office.
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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Put 2.5 million unmarried male workers into forest, beach, and park maintenance and restoration projects.
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Federal Securities Act
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Required full disclosure of info about stock offered for sale.
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Securities and Exchange Commission
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Regulate the stock market.
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Federal Reserve Board
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Regulate the purchase of stock on margin.
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Tennessee Valley Authority
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Helped farmers and created jobs in one of the country's least modernized regions.
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Francis Perkins
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Secretary of labor 1933-1945; 1st woman cabinet member
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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1st lady 1933-1945; tireless worker for social causes, including women's rights and civil rights for African Americans and other groups
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Works Progress Administration
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Provided work for more than 8 million citizens.
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NAACP
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African American civil rights organization.
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National Labor Relations Act
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Also known as the Wagner Act, legalized practices allowed only unevenly in the past, such as closed shops and collective bargaining.
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National Labor Relations Board
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Set up to enforce the act's provisions.
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Fair Labor Standards Act
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Banned child labor and established a minimum wage for all workers covered under the act.
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Social Security Act
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Established a system that provided old-age pensions for workers; survivor's benefits for victims of industrial accidents; unemployment insurance; and aid for deendent mothers and children, the blind, and physically disabled.
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Huey Long
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Luisiana politician in 1930s called the kingfish; suggested redistributing lage fortunes by means of grants to families.
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Committee for Industrial Organizations
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Sought to organize the nation's unskilled workers.
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Congress of Industrial Organizations
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New name for the committe for industrial Organizations.
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