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32nd President who planned programs to end the Great Depression
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
This program helped to raise crop prices by lowering production
AAA - Agricultural Adjustment Act
This program provided aid and part-time jobs to many high school and college students. It allowed them to get an education even in tough economic times.
Nation Youth Adminstration
What is deficit spending?
spending more money than the government receives in revenue. Spending more money than one has.
What was the AFL - The American Federation of Labor?
Mostly craft unions such as plumbers and carpenters.
A humanitarian, first lady, social reformer and political advisor to the president.
Eleanor Roosevelt
This act put young men to work building roads and planting trees.
CCC - Civilian Conservation Corps
This act supported workers' right to collective bargaining and banned unfair labor practices.
The Wagner Act
What is the New Deal coalition?
When there are votes from different groups that supported the Democratic Party because of the New Deal.
What is the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)?
a federation of industrial unions that aimed to organize workers in mass-production industries. ex. Electrical workers, Auto workers, steel workers, radio workers, etc.
A senator from Louisiana who created the Share-Our-Wealth Program to convince the American people he was fit to be president
Huey Long
This act (or Law) made companies give accurate information in its stock offerings.
This act provided old-age insurance, unemployment compensation, and aid to disabled and families with children.
SSA - Social Security Act
Who was John Collier?
commissioner on Indian Affairs. He was a strong supporter of Native American Rights and helped pass the Indian Reorganization act.
What occurred on Memorial Day, 1937?
Memorial Day Massacre - police killed 10 people during a steel strike in Chicago.
Head of the Office of Minority Affairs in the NYA. She was an African American who was given a voice in the government.
Mary McLeod Bethune
This act set codes of fair practice for industries and created the NRA.
NIRA - National Industrial Recovery Act
The organization set out to create jobs as quickly as possible and used millions of workers to build airports, roads, libraries, schools, and hospitals.
What is the Indian Reorganization Act?
This law strengthened Native American Land Claims. It did not allow the sale of unoccupied native land to those outside of the tribe the land belonged to.
Who lost the 1932 Presidential election?
Herbert Hoover
This person became the first female cabinet member as the secretary of Labor.
Francis Perkins
This act established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which protects the savings people put in banks. It is similar to the Emergency Banking Relief Act.
Glass-Steagall Act
This act extended electricity to rural areas
REA - Rural Electrification Administration
Programs designed to end the Great Depression
1 - Relief for the needy
2-economic recovery
3-financial reform