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24 Cards in this Set
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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 gov.regulation
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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Congress gave the Federal Reserve Board power to regulate the purchase of stock market
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Fireside chats
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FDR went on the raido and talked about the new deal
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Hundred Days
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First one hundred days of president FDR term of office
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Indian Regorganization Act
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Ended the sale of tribal lands
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Civil Works Adimistration
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Gave unemployed jobs building or improving roads,parks,airports, and other facilities.
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Civil Conservation Corps
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It put 2.5 million unmarried male workers into forest,beach,and park maintenance and restoration projects.
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National Industrial Recovery Act
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The NIRA allowed trade associations in may industries to draw up codes to regulate working conditions,production and even prices
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Federal Securities Act
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Required full disclosure of info. about stock offered for sale. congress set up the securities and exchange commission.
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Securities and exchange commission
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regulated the stock market.
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Federal Reserve Board
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regulate the purchase of stock on margin,a practice that had contributed heavily to the crash.
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Tennessee Valley Authority
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Helped farmers and created jobs in one of the counrty's least modernized regions.
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Francis Perkins
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Became secretary od labor, a job she held until 1945. Perkins was one od almost thirty women who held key New Deal positions.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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First lady 1933-1945, tireless worker for social causes included womens rights and civil rights for African American and other groups.
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NAACP ( national association for the advancemant of colored people)
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African American civil rights organization founded in 1910,fought for civil rights through demonstration,lawsiuts,and other means throughout the 1900's
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Fair Labor Standards Act
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It covered fewer than one quarter of al gainfully employed workers and set the minimum wage at twenty five cents an hour well below what most covered workers already made.
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National Labor Relations Board
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It was called the wagner act.The wagner act legalized praticaes allowed only unevenly in the past, such a closed shops in which only union members can work and collective bargaining.
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Huey Long
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He was known as the Kingfish. He was a country lawyer. He beame the US senator in 1932.He used racial attacks as basis of his power.He worked to help the underprivileged,improving eduation,medical care and public service.
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Social Security Act
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Legislation of 1935 that established a social welfare system funded by employee worker contributions.
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American Federation of Labor (AFL)
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Little attract unskilled industrial workers during its half century of existence.
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Committee for Industrial Organization
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It sought to organize the nations unskilled wo9rkers. It sent organizers into steel mills,auto plants,and southern textile mills.
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Congress of Industrial Organizations
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Labor group that spilt off from the American Federation od Labor in 1938 and organized unskilled steel,auto,and other workers
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Emergency Banking Act
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Authorized the gov. to inspect the financial health of all banks.
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Works Progress Administration
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Provided work for more than 8 million citizens.They improved more than 20,000 playgrounds,schools,hospital,and airfields and supported the creative work of many artists and writers.
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