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48 Cards in this Set
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new deal
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president FDR's economic program 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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organization insured each bank deposit up to $5,000 in the June 1933
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Frances Perkins
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FDR's secretary of labor
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Harry L. Hopkins
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former relief supervisor in NY head of the FERA
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CCC civilian conservation corps
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provided relief for many unemployed young men between the ages of 18-25
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Securities and exchange commission
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regulates companies who sell stock and bonds
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john maynard keynes
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noted British economist
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national industrial recovery act
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stimulate industrial and business activity and reduce unemployment
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agricultural adjustment administration
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group that paid farmers to reduces their products
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Tennessee valley authority
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transformed the social and economic life of the region created in may 1933
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Robert c. weaver
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held a ph.D in economics from Harvard
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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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founded the American Indian defense association
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Francis E. Townshed
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wanted the government to pay 200 dollars to people over 60 years old to raise the economy
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Charles E. Coughlin
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a radio priest from Michigan and urged the government to nationalize all banks and return to the silver standard
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Huey Long
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A corrupted U.S. senator of Louisiana who wanted to take the money from the rich to give to the poor
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Share-Our-Wealth
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government to seize wealth from the rich through taxes and provide money to poor people
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Works Progress Administration
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administration that help Americans find jobs
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National Youth Administration
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gave high school students and collage students part time jobs to stay in school
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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member of the Black Clarinet
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Social Security Act
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act that provided unemployment to workers who lost their jobs, provided pensions to people who were older than 65 years old, gave payments to people with disabilities
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Wagner-Connery Act
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guaranteed labors right to organize unions and to bargain collectively for better wages and working conditions
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Congress of industrial organization
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tried to unite various industries
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Sit-down strike
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workers got fired but more than leaving they stayed in the factories to meet their demands
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Dust Bowl
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a region in the US where big dust storms hit the states
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Roy E. Stryker
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head of the FSA historical section
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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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who later became a filmmaker
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Margaret Bourke-White
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international photojournalist
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Dorothea Lange
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Best known photographers in the FSA
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Migrant Mother
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was a masterpiece that showed the hardships of an immigrant mother with children who survived with finding veggies from fields
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Federal Project Number One
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encourage pride in American culture by providing working to artist in the fields of writing, theater, music, and virtual arts.
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John Steinbeck
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produced pictures of the depression years in the Grapes of Wrath
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Grapes of Wrath
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story follow the fortune 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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explores a black woman’s search for fulfillment in rural Florida
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Richard Wright
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offered a grim picture of black urban life in Nature Son
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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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Director who make movies about simple values and criticized wealthy people.
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Aaron Copland
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a composer who made songs about the great depression
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Thomas A. Dorsey
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wrote the songs Precious Lord, Take My Hand
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Mahalia Jackson
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She was a gospel singer
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Benny Goodman
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helped popularize swing with his band
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Jacob Lawrence
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artist who portrayed many famous African American people
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Georgia O' Keeffe
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painted hunting images of the southwest desert
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regionalist
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group of Midwestern artist
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American Gothic
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the most famous painting of the regionalist
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Anna Grandma Moses
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very famous folk artist
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