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23 Cards in this Set
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Emergency Banking Act
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First New Deal measure that provided from reopening the banks under strict conditions and took the US off the gold standard
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Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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Part of the 2nd New Deal, provided jobs for millions of the unemployed on construction and arts projects
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Agricultural Adjustment Act
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New deal legislation that established the AAA to improve agricultural prices by limiting market supplies
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National Industrial Recovery Act
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Created public-works jobs through the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and established a system of self-regulation for industry
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Dust Bowl
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Great Plains countries where millions of tons of topsoil were blown away from parched farmland.
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Wagner Act
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Established the National Labor Relations Board and facilitated unionization by regulating employment and bargaining practices
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Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
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Umbrella organization of semiskilled industrial unions
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Court-packing plan
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President FDR failed to attempt to increase the number of US Supreme Court justices from 9 to 15 in order to save his 2nd New Deal programs
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Scottsboro Case
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In overturning verdicts against 9 black youths accused of raping 2 white women
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Social Security
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Created the Social Security system with provisions for a retirement pension, unemployment insurance, disability insurance, and public assistance (welfare)
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
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Set up unemployed young men to work on projects like forest preservation, flood control, and the improvement of national parks
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Public Works Administration (PWA)
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It built roads, schools, hospitals, and other public facilities.
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
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A government system that insured the accounts of individual depositors took US off of the gold standard
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United States v. Butler
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Declared it an unconstitutional exercise of congressional power over local economic activities. NY couldn't establish a min wage for women and children
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Huey Long
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In the US Senate. He used his dictatorial power to build roads, schools, hospitals and to increase the tax burden on Louisiana's oil companies. Kingfish: launched the Share the Wealth movement
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Townsend Plan
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The government would give older Americans 200 dollars monthly with the agreement that they would spend it fast.
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Anti-lynching laws
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NAACP was able to convince congress to make lynching unconstitutional
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Smith Act
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Made it a federal crime to "teach, advocate, or encourage" the overthrow of the government
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Father Charles E. Coughlin
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Attracted millions of listeners with a weekly broadcasts attacking Wall Street banker and greedy capitalists, and calling for gov ownership of key industries
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Fair Labor Standards Act
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Established minimum wages, Social Security's old age pensions, and unemployment benefits
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Economy Act of 1932
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Prohibited both members of a married couple from holding federal jobs
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Indian Reorganization Act
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Made schools that were on the reservations instead of taking kids away and took away forced assimilation
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Thomas Hart Benton
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An artist that wrote about the American folk culture
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