Acts designed to continue America's trade with its world partners but prohibit the president from taking sides in the emerging European conflict
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What is Congress of Industrial Organizations
An alliance of industrial unions the spurred in the 1930’s organizational drive among the mass production industriesWhat is Congress of Industrial Organizations
100
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
Federal regional planning agency established to promote conservation, produce electric power, and encourage economic development in seven Southern states.
200
What is a Hooverville?
Shanty Towns, sarcastically named after president Hoover, in which unemployed and homeless people lived in shacks and tents
200
Between 1929 and 1932, how much did personal income drop?
More than Half
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What cities Hooverville covered over 100 square miles?
Oklahoma City
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How many Mexicans and American-bord children of mexicans left the US due to racism and economic woes?
nearly half a million
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Government agency that guarantees bank deposits, thereby protecting both depositors and banks
What is the function of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
300
What is a Bonus Army?
Unemployed Veterans of WWI gathering in Washington in 1932 demanding payment of service bonuses not due until 1945
300
What is the purpose of the National Recovery Administration?
Halt the slide in prices, wages, and employment.
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What is the New Deal
The Economic and Political policies of the Roosevelt administration in the 1930’s
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What African American athlete won a gold medal for running in the 1936 olympic games?
Jesse Owens
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Roosevelt wanted progressive minded Supreme Court Justices who supported his reform called the ...
New Deal
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What is a fascist government
A government subscribing to a philosophy of dictatorship that merges the interests of the state, armed forces, and big businesses
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What is the Dust Bowl
Drought and high winds from the South Dakota to Texas
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CCC employed how many young men to work on reforestation and flood-control projects, build roads and bridges in national forests and parks, restore Civil War battlefields, and fight forest fires
2.5 million
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What year did Hitler come to power as leader of the Nationalist Socialist Workers Party in Germany?
1933
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Most African Americans were n which political party?
Democrats
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Why did some Americans raid mexicans?
To intimidate them to go back to mexico. They wanted to "free up" jobs.
500
What is the FDIC
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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What Happened on March 4th 1933
President Roosevelt became president
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What is the Securities and Exchange commission
Federal agency with authority to regulate trading practices in stocks and bonds
500
What is a fireside chat?
Speeches broadcasted nationally over the radio in which Franklin D. Roosevelt explained complex issues and programs in plain language