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12 Cards in this Set
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Forbiding by law the making and selling of alcholic beverages.
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prohibition
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An orgnization that worked to stop the sale of acholic beverages.
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Woman's christian temperance union
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To approve or make valid.
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ratify
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A tax on the resources taken from the land.
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severance tax
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A secret, racist orginization that used violence and intimidation against thoes, especially immigrants and minorites, whose behavior or actions it did not like.
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Ku Klux Klan
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A state commission whose job it was to regulate transportation and communication companies, originally called the Rail road conmission.
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Public Service Commission
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To remove or supress.
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censor
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Huey Long's economic program that would have eliminated proverity by giving every family a minimum incom; the program also called for providing money to elderly people.
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Share Our Wealth Program
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The name given to the programs enacted by congress during president Franklin D. Roosevelts first two terms to deal with the problems and hardships caused by the great depression.
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New Deal
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The depression that began in 1929 with the stock market crash and lasted into the 1940's.
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Great depression
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a new deal program that provided work for single young men between the ages of 18 and25, the young men did soil constitution work and some road construction.
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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A new deal program that provided work for men with families; the men built schools, courthouses, parks and other public buildings; this also hired artistts to paint murals on public buildings and writers to compile county information.
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Work progress administration
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