Alphabet Soup
This program, the Civilian Conservation Corps, hired young men ages 18-25 who, among other things, planted more than 200 million trees.
CCC
He won his first presidential election in 1932, and would go on to win again in 1936, 1940, and 1944.
Franklin Roosevelt
His novel, The Grapes of Wrath, depicts the lives of Oklahomans who left the Dust Bowl and ended up in California, where their struggles continued.
John Steinbeck
Workers stay inside their factory during this kind of strike, in order to prevent their company from hiring replacement workers.
Sit-down strike
This agency was created to reform the financial system by regulating the stock market and preventing insider trading.
Securities and Exchange Commission
It paid farmers to produce less food in an effort to raise agricultural prices.
AAA
She used her position as First Lady to advocate for the rights of women, minorities, and blue-collar workers. She also tried to push her husband in this direction.
Eleanor Roosevelt
This folk singer from the Great Plains' most famous song is called 'This Land is Your Land.'
Woody Guthrie
Passed as part of the Second New Deal, this law protected the rights of workers to join unions and engage in collective bargaining with employers.
Wagner Act
It established an old age pension, unemployment insurance, and relief for people with disabilities.
Social Security
It provided money to states to construct public works such as schools and other community buildings.
PWA
She served as secretary of labor during the New Deal and was also the first female cabinet member.
She changed her name in order to be taken more seriously.
Frances Perkins
His painting American Gothic is one of the most famous Depression-era paintings about rural Midwestern life.
Grant Wood
A New Deal program which still exists, it helps to settle disputes between unions and employers.
National Labor Relations Board
This act created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation which guarantees people's bank deposits up to $250,000.
Glass-Steagall Act
Daily Double
It built twenty new dams and renovated five existing ones that would provide flood control and hydroelectric power to an impoverished river valley.
She helped organize a "Black Cabinet" to advise President Roosevelt on racial issues. She also headed the Division of Negro Affairs as part of the National Youth Administration.
Mary McLeod Bethune
His novel Native Son is about a young African American man trying to survive in a racist world.
Richard Wright
It created a forty-hour work week and twenty-cents an hour minimum wage. It also set rules for workers under sixteen years old.
Fair Labor Standards Act
Its main goal to relieve the unemployed by creating as many jobs as possible as quickly as possible. In the process it built more than 125,000 public buildings.
Works Progress Administration
It helped tenant farmers to buy their own farms, set up camps for migrant workers, and hired photographers to take pictures of life in rural America.
FSA
He was the commissioner of Indian Affairs and helped create the Indian Reorganization Act which, among other things, allowed Native American children to attend pubic school on their reservation.
John Collier
Her 1937 novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is about a young woman growing up in rural Florida.
Zora Neale Hurston
He organized the first all-African American trade union, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
A. Philip Randolph
The purpose of this act was to promote economic recovery by building public works and establishing codes of fair practice in individual industries.
National Industrial Recovery Act