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21 Cards in this Set
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Great Depression
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severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s.
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Black Tuesday
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Dust Bowl
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Gross National Product
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Herbert Hoover
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Franklin D Roosevelt
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2oth Amendment
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New Deal
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Frances Perkins
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Fireside Chats
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FDIC
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Public Works Administration
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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Schechter v. U.S
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Securities Exchange Commission
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Second New Deal
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Works Progress Administration
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Wagner Act 1935
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Social Security Act 1935
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Huey Long
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nicknamed The Kingfish,40th Governor of Louisiana from 1928–1932 and as a U.S. Senator from 1932 to 1935. A Democrat,noted for his populist policies, created the Share Our Wealth program in 1934 with the motto "Every Man a King", proposing new wealth redistribution
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John L. Lewis
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American leader of organized leader, served president for the United Mine Workers of America from 1920-1960, major player in the history of coal mining, force behind the founding of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), which established the United Steel Workers of America and helped organize millions of other industrial workers in the 1930s.1944 took the union into the American Federation of Labor (AFL).
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