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People
100
government funded building projects
What are public works?
100
aided some of the nation's poorest; tenant farmers and share croppers.
What is the Farm Tenancy Act?
100
put an end to Great Depression because of the international struggle happening in Europe and would put businesses back into making war supplies
What is World War II?
100
government payment to grow fewer crops
What is a subsidy?
100
believed FDR was too friendly with banks and businesses. His plan was the Share Our Wealth Society.
Who is Huey P. Long?
200
used the radio to communicate with the American people.
What are Fireside Chats?
200
spending more money more money than it makes.
What is a deficit?
200
established minimum wage and set the max hours a week for a worker to 40 hours
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
200
Eleanor Roosevelt
Who was FDR's wife?
200
"radio priest" concluded that FDR was not doing enough to curb the power of the nation's bankers and financial leaders
Who is Father Charles Couglin?
300
the three goals of the New Deal
What is relief, recovery, and reforms?
300
monthly payments/pensions that are taken out of your paycheck: paid back to you if someone can't work or retires.
What is Social Security?
300
the most successful jobs relief program in all of history
What is the Works Progress Administration?
300
sought to solve unemployment in young men 18-25
What is the Civilian Conservation Corp?
300
The first women to ever head an executive deparment
Who is Francis Perkins?
400
forced companies to share financial information info with the public
What is the Federal Securities Act?
400
gave money to people to people immediately
What is the Federal Emergency Relief Administration?
400
the last major New Deal law that would get passed
What is the Fair Labors Standards Act?
400
inspired hope and restored faith in America
What is the First New Deal?
400
recorded images of the Depression sufferers in her hometown of San Francisco
Who is Dorothea Lange?
500
bhuilt dams and other projects along the TN River and tributaries.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
500
Eventually employed 8.5 million Americans and they build roads, subways,airports, zoos and worked in offices, schools, museums, factories.
What is the Works Progress Administration?
500
changed the link between the American people and the government
What is the New Deal?
500
gives every family $5000 to buy a home + $2500 income/yr and proposed large taxes on the wealthy.
What is the Wealth Society?
500
the nation's first African-American federal judge.
Who is William Haste?