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32 Cards in this Set
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FDR |
Governor of New York, later became the President in 1933. |
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New deal |
To promote economic recovery and social reform |
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Fireside chat |
Important way for Roosevelt to communicate with the American people |
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) |
Government agency that ensures bank deposits, guaranteed that depositors money will be safe |
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) |
Provided jobs for more than 2 million young men |
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National Recovery administration (NRA) |
Developed codes of fair competition to come to governed whole industries |
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Public Works Administration (PWA) |
Build bridges, dams, power plants, and government buildings |
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Charles Coughlin |
A Roman Catholic who attracted millions of listeners to his radio show |
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Huey Long |
Expert performer who is folksy speeches delighted audiences. His solution for the Great Depression was "share our wealth" program that proposed high taxes on wealthy and charge corporations in the redistribution of their income to poor Americans |
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Second new deal |
Addresses the elderly, poor, and unemployed. Also created a new public works project helped farmers and enhance measures to protect workers rights (1955) |
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Works project administration (WPA) |
Built or improved a good part of the rations Highway, dredge rivers, and harbors and promoted soil and water conservation |
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John Maynard Keynes |
Argued that deficit spending needed to end the depression |
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Pump priming |
Putting people to work on public projects put money into the hands of consumers who would buy more goods stimulating the economy |
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Social Security Act |
Congress enacted establish unemployment insurance for workers who lost their jobs |
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Wagner Act |
Law that abolished unfair labor practices, recognized the rights of employees to originate labor unions, and gave workers the right to collective bargaining |
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Fair labor Standards Act |
Establish a minimum wage in the shell Lee at $0.25 per hour, and a maximum work week of 44 hours. Also outlaw child labor |
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Congress of industrial organization (CIO) |
Labor organization that represent industrial workers |
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Sit down strike |
Workers refused to leave the workplace until a settlement is reached |
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Court packing |
FDR plan to add up to sit justices to the a member Supreme Court after the court had ruled that some New Deal legislation was unconstitutional |
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Black cabinet |
Unofficial African advisers the president invited to advise him |
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Mary McLeod Bethune |
Member of the black cabinet, founder of Bethune Cookman college |
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Indian new deal |
Program that gave Indian economic assistance in greater control over their own affairs |
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New Deal coalition |
Political force formed by diverse groups who united in supported FDR and his New Deal |
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Welfare state |
Government that assumes responsibility for providing for the welfare of the poor, sick and unemployed |
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The Wizard of Oz |
One of the most number one pression era films |
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Frank Capra |
Use a director in that most of his films were about everyday people struggling with hardships of the time |
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War of worlds |
A film directed by Orson wells. The film was so realistic at the time people I still believe Martians were real until announcers insisted it was all fake (1938) |
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Federal art project |
Division of the Works Progress Administration that hired unemployed artist to create works for buildings and sponsored art education programs |
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Mural |
Large picture painted directly on the wall or ceiling |
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Dorothea Lange |
FSA photographer who created powerful images of farmers and migrant |
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John Steinbeck |
Author of The Grapes of Wrath that was the most famous novel of the 1930s |
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Lillian Hellman |
New Orleans native who wrote several plays featuring rules for women |
