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| veterans who wanted and needed their bonuses in 1932 not 1945, marched to Washington for peaceful protest and didn't leave; Hoover's handling of them (militarily) killed his election campaign |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) |
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| elected for three terms starting in 1932, from New Deal to WWII |
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| first woman cabinet member, appointed by FDR, secretary of labor |
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| extremely important to FDR's success (his wife), very progressive and for equality among between |
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| people forced to move out of the Dust Bowl area because of extreme drought, migrant farmworkers |
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| Catholic priest from Detroit, spoke in weekly radio broadcasts, turned against New Deal and formed the Union Party (anti-Semitic) |
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| powerful southern Democratic governor of Louisiana; poor/rich, country/city, and humble/elites |
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| senator of New York, sponsored by NLRA |
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| sponsored by Eleanor Roosevelt into head of the Division of Negro Affairs of the NYA, highest-ranking black official in FDR's administration |
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| brilliant English economist who made a sophisticated, theoretical argument in favor of New Deal relief agencies had developed in commonsense |
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| support from farmers, factory workers, immigrants, city folk, blacks, women, and progressives for FDR and the NEW DEAL |
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| to provide relief to the destitute (and unemployed), to foster the economic recovery of farms and businesses, and to reform the government and economy so that the risk of the Depression happening again was lessened |
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| group of progressive intellectuals milked for ideas for the New Deal by FDR; mainly professors from Columbia |
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| first 100 days FDR was in office for fulfilling promises in a whirlwind of government activity |
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| Emergency Banking Act of 1933 |
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| bank holiday for 4 days while FDR fixed stuff |
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| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) |
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| government backing of people with money in the banks |
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| instituted by FDR to tell the people in common language what he was doing and why it was helping them |
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| Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) |
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| government regulation of the stock market |
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| Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) |
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| thousands of young men (and some women) worked for the government on natural resources |
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| Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) |
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| dammed the Tennessee River and provided irrigation and electricity to rural farmland around there |
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| Agriculture Adjustment Act (AAA) |
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| paid farmers to plant less and hold back their crops till prices rose |
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| National Recovery Administration (NRA) |
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| advised businesses to come up with codes ensuring fair trade and no price competition |
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| Works Progress Administration (WPA) |
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| focused on providing jobs for the unemployed with public works projects |
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| National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) |
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| authorized government to intervene in labor disputes and supervise the organization of labor unions |
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| Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) |
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| Committee for Industrial Organization/Congress of Industrial Organization; mobilized organizing drives in major industries |
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| workers sit in factories, blocking other workers, while refusing to work |
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| provides modest income to relieve poverty of old people based on contributions to the pool of taxes, created unemployment insurance and supported dependent orphans and the blind |
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| modest incomes for unemployed financed by employers' contributions |
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| sponsored by Mary Bethune, first sizable representation of blacks in white-collar government work |
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| Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) |
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| allowed Indians to own land communally and have greater control over their own affairs |
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| Communists preached joining together to advance the fortunes of the working class |
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| set wage and hours standards plus curbed child labor, but didn't protect blacks and women to appeal to conservatives |
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| Federal Housing Authority (FHA) |
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| helped regulate mortgages and housing conditions |
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