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58 Cards in this Set
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consumers
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users of goods and services
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Black Tuesday
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Oct. 29, 1929. day the stock market crashed, signaling start of the Great Depression
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Great Depression
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worst period of economic decline in U.S history, beginning in 1929
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Hoovervilles
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groups of shacks in which the homeless lived during the Great Depression
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Relief
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government program to help the needy
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Public Works program
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-projects built by government hired workers for public use
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
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loaned money to banks, railroads and insurance companies to help them stay in business
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Bonus Army
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veterans who marched to Washington in 1932 to demand immediate payment of a WWI bonus
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Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)
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became president after Hoover and promised the public a "New Deal"
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Brain Trust
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advisors to FDR.
college professors who were experts on economic issues and helped FDR plan new programs |
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Emergency Banking Relief Act
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only banks with enough funds to meet depositors' demands could reopen
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fireside chats
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radio speeches given by President FDR while in office
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Hundred Days
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First hundred days of FDR's presidency. Congress passed about 15 major new laws.
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New Deal
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program of president FDR to end the Great Depression.
3 main goals- Relief for jobless, plans for economic Recovery and Reforms to prevent another Depression |
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
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New Deal program that hired unemployed men to work on naturual conservation projects
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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
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TVA New Deal program that built dams to control flooding and produce cheap electric power
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Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
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gave federal money to state and local agencies that then gave the money to the unemployed
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
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government paid farmers NOT to grow certain crops
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National Recovery Administration (NRA)
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government agency set up during the Great Depression to enforce new codes to stabilize industry
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Public Works Administration (PWA)
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promoted recovery by hiring workers for thousands of public projects
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
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insured savings accounts on banks approved by the government
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Rural Electrification Project (REA)
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created to help people in rural areas get the same electrical service as people in urban areas
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
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government paid farmers NOT to grow certain crops
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National Recovery Administration (NRA)
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government agency set up during the Great Depression to enforce new codes to stabilize industry
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
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government paid farmers NOT to grow certain crops
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
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government paid farmers NOT to grow certain crops
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National Recovery Administration (NRA)
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government agency set up during the Great Depression to enforce new codes to stabilize industry
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Public Works Administration (PWA)
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promoted recovery by hiring workers for thousands of public projects
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National Recovery Administration (NRA)
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government agency set up during the Great Depression to enforce new codes to stabilize industry
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Public Works Administration (PWA)
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promoted recovery by hiring workers for thousands of public projects
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
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insured savings accounts on banks approved by the government
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Public Works Administration (PWA)
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promoted recovery by hiring workers for thousands of public projects
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Rural Electrification Project (REA)
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created to help people in rural areas get the same electrical service as people in urban areas
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
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insured savings accounts on banks approved by the government
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
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insured savings accounts on banks approved by the government
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
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government paid farmers NOT to grow certain crops
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Rural Electrification Project (REA)
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created to help people in rural areas get the same electrical service as people in urban areas
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National Recovery Administration (NRA)
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government agency set up during the Great Depression to enforce new codes to stabilize industry
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Rural Electrification Project (REA)
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created to help people in rural areas get the same electrical service as people in urban areas
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Public Works Administration (PWA)
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promoted recovery by hiring workers for thousands of public projects
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
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insured savings accounts on banks approved by the government
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Rural Electrification Project (REA)
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created to help people in rural areas get the same electrical service as people in urban areas
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Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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1935. Put jobless to work making clothes and building hospitals, schools, parks, playgrounds and airports. Hired artists, photographers and writers
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Social Security Act (SSA)
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1935 law that set up a system of pensions for older people and set up the nation's first system of unemployment insurance
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Wagner Act
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protected American workers from unfair management practices. Guaranteed workers the right to collective bargaining
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Collective bargaining
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process by which a union representing a group of workers negotiates with management for a contract
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sitdown strike
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strike in which workers refuse to leave the workplace until a settlement is reached
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deficit spending
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government practice of spending more than is taken in from taxes
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Dust Bowl
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region in central Great Plains that was hit by a severe drought during the 1930s
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migrants
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people who move from place to place (in search of work)
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Black Cabinet
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group of black leaders who unofficially advised FDR concerning the situation of African-Americans
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Grapes of Wrath
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novel by John Steinbeck that told about suffering farmers headed west
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Wizard of Oz
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1939 movie of a young girl's escape from bleak life in depression-era Kansas to the magical land of Oz
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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very popular movie. First full-length animated film.
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Frances Perkins
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Secretary of Labor. First woman to hold a cabinet position.
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Huey Long
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Senator of Louisiana. Believed New Deal had not gone far enough to help the poor.
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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part of Black Cabinet. First African-American to head a government agency.
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Richard Wright
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