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FDR’s policies aimed at dealing with the Great Depression became known as the what?
New Deal
FDR caught what dreaded paralyzing disease?
Polio
What provides government insurance for bank deposits?
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
What was created to regulate the stock market and stop fraud?
Securities Exchange Commission
FDR addressed the nation by radio in what became known as what?
Fireside Chats
Fr. Charles Coughlin grew impatient with moderate reforms, so he organized what group?
National Union for Social Justice
The CIO used what tactic, where employees stopped work inside a factory and refused to leave?
Sit-down Strikes
What were declared to close the remaining banks before bank runs could put them out of business?
Bank Holidays
In 1935 FDR launched a series of programs, now known as the what, to generate greater economic recovery?
Second New Deal
The most important result of the First New Deal was what?
The change in the spirit of American people
What offered young men the opportunity to work under the direction of the forestry service planting trees.
Civilian Conservation Corps
To prevent a repeat of the Dust Bowl, workers planted a line of more than 200 million trees, known as what, from North Dakota to Texas?
The Shelter Belt
FDR started abandoning a balanced budget and borrowing money to pay for his programs, this is know as what?
Deficit Spending
Who proposed that the federal government should pay citizens over the age of 60 a pension of $200 a month?
Francis Townsend
What organization set out to organize unions that included all workers in a particular industry?
Committee for Industrial Organization
What new law separated commercial banking from investment banking?
Glass-Steagall Act
FDR’s programs had succeeded in creating a what, which are protections for people against economic disaster?
Safety net
A new economic theory called what, held that government should spend heavily in a recession?
Keynesianism
What provided some financial security for older Americans, unemployed workers, and others?
The Social Securities Act
What federal organization bought the mortgages of people who were behind in their payments and then restructured the loans?
Home Owners' Loan Corporation
Congress passed the National Labor Relations Act, also called the what, that guaranteed workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively.
Wagner Act
FDR authorized Harry Hopkins to set up the what, to help people get through the winter?
Civil Works Administration
Congress established the what, to give money to state and local agencies to fund their relief projects?
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
What helped farmers refinance their mortgages?
Farm Credit Administration
What law allowed the federal government to suspend antitrust laws and allowed business, labor, and government to cooperate with rules of fair competition?