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48 Cards in this Set
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New Deal
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President FDR's programs for helping the US economy during the Great Depression
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bank holiday
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When FDR closed all the banks for a few days, done to stop massive withdrawals
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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New Deal agency created in 1933 to insure bank savings deposits
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Frances Perkins
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A veteran reformer that was appointed as secretary of labor by president FDR
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Harry L. Hopkins
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A former relief supervisor in New York who headed the Federal Emergency RElief Administration (FERA)
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
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New Deal agency established in 1933; employed young men on conservation projects
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Securities and Exchange commission (SEC)
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Federal agency that regulates companies that sell stocks and bonds
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John Maynard Keynes
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A noted British aconomist that 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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Federal law designed to encourage economic growth by suspending antitrust laws and eliminating unfair competition between employers; declared unconstitutional in 1935
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
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Federal agency created by the Agricultural Adjustment Act in 1933 to reduce farmers' output and increase crop prices
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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
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New Deal program established in 1933; built dams and power stations to provide hydroelectric power and flood control to the Tennessee River valley
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Robert C. Weaver
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An African American brought in by the Department of the Interior to advise them on racial matters
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Marian Anderson
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A world- famous African American singer who was not allowed to sing
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John Collier
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A social worked who observed the poor living conditions in American Indian communities
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Francis E. Townsend
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A liberal reformer from California who opposed the New Deal
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Charles E. Coughlin
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A radio priest from Michigan who urged the government to nationalize all banks and return to the silver standard
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Huey Long
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A colorful and corrupt U.S. senator from Louisiana who proposed the Share-Our-Wealth relief program
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Share-Our-Wealth
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A new kind of relief program that would empower the government to seize wealth from the rich through taxes and then provide a guaranteed minimum income and a home to every American family
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Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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New Deal agency created in 1934 to put American men and women to work
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National Youth Administration (NYA)
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New Deal agency that provided part-time jobs to people between the ages of 16 and 25
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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A member of the black cabinet who who Lady Eleanor Roosevelt insisted be appointed director of the Division of Negro Affairs
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Social Security Act
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Law that provides retirement pensions, unemployment insurance, and payments to people with disabilities and widows and children of male workers who have died
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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 bargain for better wages and working conditions
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Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
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Labor group formed in 1938 that organized all workers in a particular industry into one union
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Sit-down strike
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Method used by striking workers of preventing owners from replacing them by refusing to leave the factories
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Dust Bowl
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Name given to parts of the Great Plains in the 1930s after a severe drought struck the region
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Roy E. Stryker
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Head of the FSA historical section who assembled a team of renowned photographers
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Walker Evans
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A photographer who depicted life among sharecroppers in rural Alabama
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Gordon Parks
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African American photographer who later became a filmmaker
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Margaret Bourke-White
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An international photojournalist
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Dorothea Lange
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The best known of the FSA photographers and had the famous photo Migrant Mother
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Migrant Mother
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Dorothea Lange's photograph that shows an exhausted single mother whose children survived by eating vegetables they scavenged from California fields
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Federal Project Number One
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New Deal program that encouraged pride in American culture by employing thousands of artists and writers
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John Steinbeck
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A writer who produced a The Grapes of Wrath in the depression years
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The Grapes of Wrath (1939)
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A story that 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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A writer who wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Richard Wright
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A book that offered a grim picture of black urban life in Native Son
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Gone With the Wind (1936)
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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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A director who celebrated simple values and criticized the wealthy and politicians in films
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Aaron Copland
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An American composer
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Thomas A. Dorsey
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African American composer
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Mahalia Jackson
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Popular gospel singers
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Benny Goodman
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A white conductor that helped popularize swing with his integrated band
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Jacob Lawrence
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A Harlem artist who portrayed the daily lives of African American heroes
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Georgia O'Keeffe
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An artist from New Mexico that painted haunting images of the southwestern desert landscape
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Regionalists
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Midwestern artists popular in the 1930s who stressed local folk themes and customs in their work
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American Gothic
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The most famous of the regionalist paintings,painted by Grant Wood
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Anna "Grandma" Moses
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An elderly folk artist
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