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20 Cards in this Set
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration
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Federal agency created by the Agricultural Adjustment Act to reduce farmers' output and increase crop prices
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American Gothic
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One of the most famous regionalist paintings, by Grant Wood
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bank holiday
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New Deal proclamation that temporarily closed every U.S. bank to stop massive withdrawals
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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Employed young men on conservation projects
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Cold War
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Long power struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union' waged mostly on economic and political fronts, rather than on the battlefield
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Congress of Industrial Organizations
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Labor group that organized all workers in a particular industry into one union
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Dust Bowl
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Name given to parts of the Great Plains after a severe drought struck the region
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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New Deal agency created in 1933 to insure bank savings deposits
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Federal Project Number One
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New Deal program that encouraged pride in American culture by employing thousands of artists and writers
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Gone With the Wind
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The best-selling novel of the 1930s, by Margaret Mitchell; made into one of the most popular films of all time in 1939
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Migrant Mother
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Dorothea Lange's most famous photo of the Great Depression, showing an exhausted mother and her children; led to increased support for migrant workers in California
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National Industrial Recovery Act
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Federal law designed to encourage economic growth by suspending antitrust laws and eliminating unfair competition between employers; declared unconstitutional in 1935
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National Youth Administration
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Provided part-time jobs to people between the ages of 16 and 25
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New Deal
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt's programs for helping the U.S. economy during the Great Depression
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regionalists
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Midwestern artists who stressed local folk themes and customs in their work
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Share-Our-Wealth
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Radical relief program proposed by Senator Huey Long to empower the gov. to seize wealth from the rich through taxes and provide a guaranteed minimum income and home to every American family
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sit-down strike
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Method used by striking workers of preventing owners from replacing them by refusing to leave the factories
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Tennessee River Valley
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Built dams and power stations to provide hydroelectric power and flood control to the Tennessee River valley
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Wagner-Connery Act
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National Labor relations Act; law that guaranteed labor's right to organize unions and to bargain for better wages and working conditions
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Works Progress Administration
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Created to put American men and women to work
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