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46 Cards in this Set
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New Deal
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt's programs for helping the U.S economy during the Great Depression
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bank holiday
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was designed to stop massive withdrawals
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FDIC
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insured each bank deposit up to 5,000. It now insures some deposits up to 100,000
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Frances Perkins
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secretary of labor
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Harry L. Hopkins
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a former relief supervisor in New York, headed the FERA
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Civilization Conservation Corps
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some 250,000 young men left their homes and went to army camps for CCC training
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Securities and Exchange Commission
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regulates companies that sell stocks and bonds
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John Maynard Keynes
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a noted British economist
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National Industrial Recovery Act
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to stimulate industrial and business activity and reduce employment
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration
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paid farmers to reduce their output of corn, cotton, dairy products, hogs, rice, tobacco, wheat =, and other commodities
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Tennessee Valley Authority
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which was created May 1933, a transformed the economic and social life of the region
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Robert C. Weaver
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who held a Ph. D in economics from Harvard
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Marian Anderson
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a world-famous AA singer, to perform at Washington D.C Hall
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John Collier
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observed the poor living conditions in American Indian communities
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Francis E. Townsend
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liberal reformer who opposed the New Deal
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Charles E. Coughlin
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a radio priest from Michigan, urged the gov. to nationalize all banks and return to the silver standard
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Huey Long
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a colorful but corrupt U.S senator from Louisiana, had probably the most radical plan
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Share-Our-Wealth
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in 1934 long proposed a new kind of relief program
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Works Progress Administration
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program designed to help Americans find work
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National Youth Administration
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high school and college-age Americans with part-time jobs that allowed them to 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 Division of Negro Affairs in the NYA
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Social Security Act
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the act contained three major provisions unemployment insurance, funds, provided pensions
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Wagner-Connery Act
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act guaranteed labor's right to organize unions and to bargain collectively for better wages and working conditions
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Congress of Industrial Organizations
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tried to unite workers in various industries
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sit-down strike
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remain until management met there demands
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Dust Bowl
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as the affected region came to be called, clouds of dust darkened the skies at noon and buried fences and farm machinery
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Roy E. Stryker
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head of the FSA historical section, assembled a team of renowed photographers
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Walker Evans
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who depicted life among sharecroppers in rural Alabama
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Gordon Parks
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who later became a filmaker: international photojournalist
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Margaret Bourke-White Dorothea Lange
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probably the best known of the FSA photographers
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Migrant Mother
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a materpiece it shows an exhausted mother whose children survived by eating veggies
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federal Project Number one
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sought to encourage pride in American culture by providing work to artists in the fields of writing, theater, music, and visual arts
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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 region to California
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Zora Neale Hurston
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her novel explores a black woman's search for fulfillment in rural Florida
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Gone With the Wind
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a sweeping story of the Old South set during the Civil War and Reconstruction
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Frank Capra
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celebrated simple values and criticized the wealthy and politicians in films
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Aaron Copland
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used these as the basis for his most popular compositions, including his 1938 piece, BiIly the Kid
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Thomas A. Dorsey
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wrote songs such as "precious lord, Take my hand"
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Mahalia Jackson
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were popular gospel singers
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Benny Goodman
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helped popularize swing with his integrated band
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Jacob Lawrence
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portrayed the daily lives of AA heroes
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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painted haunting images of the southwestern desert landscape
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regionalists
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stressed local folk themes and customs
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American Gothic
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the most famous of the regionalists paintings is probably Wood's
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Anna "Grandma" Moses
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elderly painter became well known during this period
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