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Franklin delano Roosevelt |
Pesident in the great despession |
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New Deal |
a phrase taken from a speech in which roosevelt had promised
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Glass-Steagall Act |
enabled Federal deposit insurance corporation
FDIC |
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Federal Securtiies Act |
Search ResultsThe 1933 Act was the first major federal legislation to regulate the offer and sale of securities. Prior to the Act, regulation of securities was chiefly governed by state laws, commonly referred to as blue sky laws. |
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Fedural Securities Act |
required corporations to provide complete information on all stock offerings
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Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) |
was a United States federal law of the New Deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus and therefore effectively raise the value of crops. |
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) |
was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal. |
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National Industries Recovery Act (NIRA) |
was a law passed by the United States Congress in 1933 to authorize the President to regulate industry in an attempt to raise prices after severe deflation and stimulate economic recovery. |
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Deficit Spending |
the amount by whichspending exceeds revenue over a particular period of time, also called simply deficit, or budget deficit; the opposite of budget surplus. The term may be applied to the budget of a government, private company, or individual. |
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Huey Long |
Huey Pierce Long, Jr., nicknamed The Kingfish, was an American politician who served as the 40th Governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a member of the United States Senate from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. |
