Chapter 25, The New Deal!

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New Deal

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FDR's plan to recover and rebuild the economy

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

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This organization insured each bank deposit up to $5,000. Today it gives up too $100,000

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Frances Perkins

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A veteran reformer who was brought in by the president as secretary of labor

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Harry L. Hopkins

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a former relief supervisor in New York, head of the FERA

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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

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Provided relief for many unemployed young men in 1933

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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

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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 and argued that for a nation to recover fully from a depression the government had to spend money to encourage investment and consumption

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National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)

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stimulates industrial and business activity and reduces unemployment

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Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)

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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 (TVA)

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Transformed the economic and social life of the region

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Robert C. Weaver

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Adviser Department of Interior on Racial matters

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Marian Anderson

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A world famous African American singer to preform at D.C. hall

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John Collier

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Observed poor living conditions in American Indian communities and founded the American Indian Defense Association.

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Francis E. Townsend

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Liberal reformers who opposed the New Deal

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Charles E. Coughlin

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A radio priest from Michigan, urged the government to nationalize all banks and return to the silver standard.

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Huey Long

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Colorful, Corrupt U.S. senator from Louisiana, had probably the most radical plan called Share-Our-Wealth

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Share-Our-Wealth

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Relief program which meant for people to take from the rich and give to the poor. aka sharing their wealth.

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Works Progress Administration (WPA)

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Designed to help Americans find work,Led by Harry L. Hopkins

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National Youth Administration (NYA)

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Provided 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, appointed as director of the Division of Negro Affairs in the NYA

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Social Security Act

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An act which congress passed in August 1935 which had three major provisions

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Wagner-Connery Act

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The 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 (CIO)

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Tried to unite workers in various industries.

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Congress of Industrial Organizations

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Labor group formed in 1938 that organized all workers in a particular industry into one union

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Roy E. Stryker

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Head of the FSA historical section, and assembled a team of renowned photographers

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Walker Evans

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Depicted life among sharecroppers in rural Alabama

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Gordon Parks

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An African American photographer

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Margaret Bourke-White

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An international photojournalist

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Dorothea Lange

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One of the best known FSA photographers

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Migrant Mother

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An exhausted mother whose children survived by eating vegetables they scavenged from California fields

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Federal Project Number 1

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Encouraged pride in American culture by providing work to artist 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 in The Grapes of Wrath

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The Grapes of Wrath

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It 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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Wrote Their Eyes were Watching God (1937) and her novel explores a black woman's search for fulfillment in rural Florida

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Richard Wright

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Offered a grip picture of black urban life in Native Son (1940) His work chronicles the journey of a young African American man lost in a racist world

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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 like Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

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Aaron Copland

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A composer that used theses as the basis for most popular compositing, including his 1938 piece, "Billy the Kid"

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Thomas A. Dorsey

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Wrote songs such as " Precious Lord", and "Take My Hand"

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Mahalia Jackson

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A very famous gospel singer

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Benny Goodman

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A white conductor who helped popularize swing with his integrated band

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Jacob Lawrence

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Portrayed the daily lives of African American heroes, such as Frederick Douglas and Harriet Tubman

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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 regionalist paintings ever

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Anna " Grandma" Moses

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Was an elderly painter

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Wagner- Connery Act

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National Labor Relations Act; law that guaranteed labor's right to organize unions and to bargains for better wages and working conditions

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Sit-down Strike

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A method used by striking workers from preventing owners from replacing them by refusing to leave the factories