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38 Cards in this Set
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Hundred Days
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The first use of this was the first hundred days of FDR's presidency, to measure the success of his administration.
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NRA
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National Recovery Administration, nullified by the Supreme Court in 1935
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AAA
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration, also nullified by the Supreme Court
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Harry Hopkins
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A close advisor to Franklin Roosevelt.
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WPA
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Works Progress Administration, employed people to carry out public works projects.
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Townsend Plan
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Called for a pension to people over age sixty, set the tone for the Social Security Act
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Social Security Act
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Funded through payroll taxes, sets aside money for retirees
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Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act)
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Limits actions that management can take against labor unrest (strikes)
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NLRB
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Investigates unfair labor practices, has elections for unions
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John L Lewis
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A president of the United Mine Workers of America
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Liberty League
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Opposed the New Deal
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CCC
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Provided jobs for unemployed young men (building dams, other public works projects)
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Bonus Army
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A group of veterans who marched on the white house who wanted an army bonus to be granted to them early
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PWA
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Made plans for public works projects on large scales.
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Harold Ickes
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Leader of the PWA
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UAW
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United Auto Workers, created from the AFL
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Hattie Carraway
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First woman senator
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FSA
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Made to combat rural poverty by improving their land
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Federal Farm Board
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Made to stabilize the prices of agricultural products.
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Fair Labor Standards Act
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Created the minimum wage, overtime pay, and oversaw child labor
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“Hooverville’s”
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A shanty town build by homeless people
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Charles Coughlin
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An antisemetic roman catholic priest who couldn't make up his mind whether he supported or didn't support the new deal
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Huey Long
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Senator who created the Share Our Wealth program
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Francis Townsend
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Came up with the Townsend Plan
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Alf Landon
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Defeated in landslide against FDR in 1936
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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After FDR's stroke, she "took over" the white house.
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Charles Evans Hughes
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Supported New Deal plans as a supreme court justice
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Fireside Chats
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A radio show that FDR had to help communicate with the people what he was doing with his presidency
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TVA
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A public works project made to help electrify the south
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Court Packing
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A scandal where FDR put five more justices on his side on the Supreme Court
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REA
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Rural Electrification Administration
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New Deal
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A series of policies shaped by FDR to end the Depression
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New Deal Coalition
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labor unions, minorities (racial, ethnic and religious), liberal farm groups, intellectuals, and white Southern liberals
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Indian Reorganization Act
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Secured rights of autonomy to Native Americans
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Great Depression impact on political parties
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The New Deal Coalition led to a grouping of unlikely allies to make up the Democratic party
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New Deal impact on women, African Americans, Mexicans
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None, helped a tiny bit, hindered more than it helped.
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CIO
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A federation of industrial unions
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CWA
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Yet another organization for the express purpose of getting unemployment rates down
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