People
Who was the 32nd president of the United States?
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
What was a major law of the new deal that outlawed child labor, made the 40-hour workweek standard, and established a national minimum wage?
Fair Labor Standard Act
What was a federal agency established in June 1933 to promote industrial recovery during the Great Depression?
National Recovery Administration
What was a group of Republican business leaders and conservative Democrats who banded together to fight what they called the “reckless spending” and “socialist” reforms of the New Deal?
American Liberty League
What was a program under the Works Progress Administration from 1935 to 1939 in which historians, teachers, editors, novelists, poets, and playwrights were employed by the federal government to produce a variety of materials?
Federal Writers’ Project
Who worked to expand positions for women in political parties, labor unions, and education?
Eleanor Roosevelt
What was a high tariff enacted in 1930 during the Great Depression by taxing imported goods?
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
What administration refinanced home mortgages for mortgage holders facing possible foreclosure?
Federal Housing Administration
What was a Federal relief program that provided jobs to millions of unemployed young men who built thousands of bridges, roads, trails, and other structures in state and national parks, bolstering the national infrastructure?
Civilian Conservation Corps
What was the group of 15,000 to 20,000 unemployed World War I veterans who set up camps near the Capitol building in 1932 to demand immediate payment of pension awards due to be paid in 1945?
Who was the first woman to serve in any presidential U.S. Cabinet?
Frances Perkins
What was a 1933 law that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
Glass-Steagall Act
What was established in 1935 that provided government-funded public works jobs to millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression?
Works Progress Administration
What was an agency funded by Congress in 1933 that integrated flood control, reforestation, electricity generation, and agricultural and industrial development in the Tennessee Valley area?
Tennessee Valley Authority
What was the plan proposed by Francis Townsend in 1933 that would give $200 a month to citizens over the age of sixty?
Townsend Plan
Who was president during the onset of the Great Depression?
Herbert Hoover
What was a 1934 law passed to grant Philippine independence?
Tydings-McDuffie Act
What was designed to put people back to work, this administration built Hoover Dam and Grand Coulee Dam, among other large public works projects?
Public Works Administration
What was a commission established by Congress in 1934 to regulate the stock market?
Securities and Exchange Commission
What was the political ideology of individual liberty, private property, a competitive market economy, free trade, and limited government?
Classical Liberalism
Who was the 40th president, nicknamed "the Kingfish"?
Huey Long
What was a 1934 law that reversed the Dawes Act?
Indian Reorganization Act
What was an agency established in 1935 to promote nonprofit farm cooperatives that offered loans to farmers to install power lines?
Rural Electrification Administration
What was an association of industrialists and business leaders opposed to government regulation?
National Association of Manufacturers
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