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The New Deal - Chapter 23 Flashcards

To understand the impetus for FDR's New Deal legislations and the impact these policies on the American nation.

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Spending more than the government receives in revenue

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Deficit spending

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Secretary of labor

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Frances Perkins

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Program to provide aid and jobs to young people

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National Youth Administration

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Commissioner on Indian Affairs

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John Collier

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Regional work project of lasting value

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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

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Programs to help industry

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National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)

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Programs to help farmers

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Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

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32nd President who created the New Deal

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)

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Popular movie

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Gone With the Wind

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New Deal jobs program

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Works Progress Administration (WPA)

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s programs to end the Depression

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New Deal

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Law to regulate stock information

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Federal Securities Act

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Voters from different groups that supported the Democratic party because of the New Deal

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New Deal coalition

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African-American author who received financial help while writing Native Son

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Richard Wright

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Labor Union

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Congress of industrial Organizations (CIO)

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First lady, social reformer, political adviser

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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Program to employ young men in work projects

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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

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Agency to regulate stock markets

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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

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Actor, director, and filmmaker

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Orson Welles

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An equal or fair amount

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Parity

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Novel by John Steinbeck

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The Grapes of Wrath

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Law to protect workers’ rights

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Wagner Act

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Program that provided aid to people with disabilities and pensions for retired workers

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Social Security Act

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Political leader from Louisiana who criticized the New Deal

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Huey Long

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Artist who painted rural midwestern subjects

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Grant Wood

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Insurance for savings

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

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Head of the Office of Minority Affairs in the NYA

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Mary McLeod Bethune

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Agency to regulate businesses

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National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

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Law that created insurance fro bank deposits

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Glass-Steagall Act

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