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16 Cards in this Set
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New Deal!
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to recover the economy.
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Bank Holiday
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Periods of a few days issued to close banks in order to prevent mass withdraws from many people.
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FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
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Organization that insured bank deposit of up to $5,000. It now insures some deposits up to $100,000.
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Frances Perkins
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Veteran reformer, brought in as secretary of labor by the president in help with the first lady, Eleanor Roosevelt and the Democratic National Committee member Molly Dewson.
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Harry L. Hopkins
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Leader of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA).
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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
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a federal corporation in the US created in May of 1933 to provide economic development in the Tennessee River Valley which was effected by the great depression.
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Robert C. Weaver
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Prominent African American adviser of the Department of the Interior on racial matters who held a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard. He was brought in by former NAACP leader Harold Ickes.
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Marian Anderson
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World famous African-American Singer
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John Collier
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Social workers in the 1920's that observed poor living conditions in American Indian communities.
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Francis E. Townsend
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Liberal reformer of California that apposed the New Deal
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Father Charles E. Coughlin
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A radio priest from Michigan, urged the government to nationalize banks and return to the silver standard.
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Huey Long
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Coorful but corrupt U.S. senator from Louisiana that had probably the most radical plan. Wanted to take from the rich and give to the poor.
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Share-Our-Wealth
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Relief program proposed in 1934 by Huey Long
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Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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Created by President Roosevelt and led by Harry L. Hopkins, designed to help Americans find work.
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National Youth Administration
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a "Junior WPA", provided high school and college age students with part time jobs that allowed them to stay in school.
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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member of the black cabinet, that was insisted to be appointed director of the Division of Negro Affairs in the NYA
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