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39 Cards in this Set
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New deal
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heart of the president's program
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bank holiday
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designed to stop massive withdawals.
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Federal deposit Insurance corporation
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FDIC insures you up to a set amount
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Frances Perkins
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many veteran reformers to direct his programs.
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Harry L. Hopkins
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a former relief supervisor in New York.
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Civilian conservation corps
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250,000 young men left their homes and went to amry camps for CCC training
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Securities and Exchange Commission
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The SEC regulates compaines the sell stock and bonds.
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John Maynard Keynes
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a noted british econismist.
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National Industrial Recovery Act
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to stimulate industral and bussiness activity and reduce unemployment
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Tennessee Valley Authority
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transformed the economic and social life of the region.
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Robert C. Weaver
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held Ph.D in economics from Harvard
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John Collier
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observed poor living conditions in american indian communities
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Francis E. Townsend
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liberal reformers that apposed the new deal
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Charles E. Coughlin
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a radio priest from Michigan, urged the government to grant a pension.
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Huey Long
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a colorful but corrupt U.S senator from Louisiana.
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Share-Our-Wealth
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long proposed a new king of relief program.
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works progress Administration
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created by roosevelt
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National Youth
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people with part time jobs could stay in school
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Mary Mcleod Bethune
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a member of the black cabinet be appointed director of the divison of negro affairs in the NYA
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Social Security Act
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congress passed in August 1935
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wagner-Connery act
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guarrented labor rights to organized unions to bargain collectively.
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Congress of Industrial Organization
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tried to unite workers in various industires
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Sit-down strike
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works did not leave the auto moblile plant
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Dust bowl
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affected the region came to be called, clouds of dust
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Roy E. Stryker
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head of FSA historical section
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Walker Evans
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reowned Phtotgraphers
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Gordon Parks
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became a film maker
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Margaret Bourke-White
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international photojournalist
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Dorothea Lange
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international photojournalist
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Migrant Mother
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langes most famous photograph
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Federal Project Number one
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program sought to encourage pride in americans culture by providing work
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john Steinbeck
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produced a gripping picture of the depression years
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The Grapes of Wrath
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story follows the fortunes of a poor family as they travel from the dust bowl
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zora neale Hurston
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wrote their eyes were watching god
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Rachard wright
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offered a grim of the black urban life
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Gone with the wind
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a sweeping story of the old south set during the Civil war
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Frank Capra
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celebrated simple vaules and criticized the wealthy and pliicians
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Aron Copland
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collected folk songs and folktales
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Thamos A Doresy
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worte therse songs such as lord
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