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40 Cards in this Set
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New Deal
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15 point program created by Roosevelt
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Bank Holiday
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March 6, Roosevelt issued a proclamation that closed all the banks for a few days to stop massive withdrawals.
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FDIC
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in June 1933
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Francés Perkins
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Secretary of labor
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Harry L. Hopkins
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A former relief supervisor in New York
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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Men from 18-25 who were trained to do remedial tasks
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Securities and Exchange Commission
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Company that regulates companies that sells stocks and bonds
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John Maynard Keynes
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A noted British economists
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration
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Paid farmers to reduce the amount of their crops
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Tennessee Valley Authority
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Created for a specific region in Tennessee to help the poverty and disease stricken people
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Robert C. Weaver
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Held a Ph.D. I 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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1920s social worker that observed poor living conditions
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Francis E. Townsend
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Liberal reformers that opposed the New Deal
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Charles E. Coughlin
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A radio priest from Michigan
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Huey Long
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A colored yet corrupt U.S. senator from Louisiana
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Share-Our-Wealth
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A new kind of relief program
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Works Progess Administration
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Created after the CWA ended designed to help Americans find work
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National Youth Administration
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Junior WPA
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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A member of the black cabinet
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Social Security Act
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Created in August of 1935 for the New Deal
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Congress of Industrial Organization
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Tried to unite all workers
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Sit-down strike
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Workers occupied the plants that they worked at, instead of leaving them
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Dust bowl
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Severe drought that brought top soil to dry and become dust
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Roy E. Stryker
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Head of 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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Filmmaker
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Margaret Bourke- White
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FSA photojournalist
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Dorothea Lange
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Photographer
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Migrant Mother
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Lange's most famous photo
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Federal Project Number One
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Sent courage to American Pride by featuring writers artists musicians and actors
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John Steinbeck
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A writer that wrote "The Grapes of Wrath"
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Zora Neale Hurston
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Wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God"
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Richard Wright
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Grime picture of black urban life
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Gone with The Wind
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1936, an American classic novel
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Frank Capra
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Celebrated simple values and criticized the wealthy and politician in his films
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Thomas A. Dorsey
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Wrote "Precious Lord, Take my Hand"
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Mahalia Jackson
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Popular gospel singer
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Georgia O'Keffee
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Painted haunting images of the southwestern desert landscape
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American Gothic
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Most famous regionalist painting
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