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100
This program hired young men to help protect the environment and natural resources in the US.
What is the CCC?
100
FDR critic and physician from Calif. that promoted a pension plan for the elderly.
Who is Dr. Francis Townsend?
100
This legislation raised the prices of farm products by paying farmers to not grow crops.
What is the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act)?
100
Roosevelt's thee "R's".
What is relief, recovery, and reform?
100
The first welfare / direct relief act.
What is the Federal Emergency Act?
200
This program provided jobs for college and high school aged students.
What is the NYA?
200
Won the 1932 Presidential election.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)?
200
Provided money for the elderly; pensions, unemployment compensations, and aid to the disabled.
What is the SSA (Social Security Act)?
200
Putting money into the economy to stimulate it, resulting in government debt.
What is deficit spending?
200
Its job was (and still is) to protect individual bank accounts.
What is the FDIC?
300
This program was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court for infringing on separation of powers.
What is the NIRA?
300
Acted as the eyes, ears, and legs for FDR while he was president.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
300
Legislation designed to regulate the stock market.
What is the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)?
300
Radio addresses by Roosevelt to the American people.
What are Fireside Chats?
300
Majority of jobs created by this program were in construction of public buildings and roads.
What is the Works Progress Administration?
400
This program was created to be a "middle-man" between labor and management disputes.
What is NLRB?
400
Wrote "The Grapes of Wrath," a novel about the grim lives of the farmers in the Dust Bowl.
Who is John Steinbeck?
400
Brought electrical power and economic recovery to the areas surrounding the Tennessee River.
What is the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)?
400
FDR's attitude about the Great Depression could be best described as "try _________".
What is "try something"?
400
This program was created to bring electricity to rural areas across the US.
What is the Rural Electric Administration?
500
This program provided jobs by destroying slums and rebuilding them into low-rent housing.
What is the PWA (Public Works Administration)
500
Believed in the "Share-Our-Wealth" program and thought he could win the election of 1936.
Who is Huey Long?
500
Provided $27 million to fund art, literature, music, and theater.
What is the Federal Art Project?
500
This FDR critic believed in a guaranteed annual income and the nationalization of banks.
Who is Father Charles Coughlin?
500
The name of the series of economic programs put into place by President Roosevelt.
What is the New Deal?