| A | B |
|---|
| FDIC | program that insures banking and checking accounts |
| SEC | new deal program that regulates the stock market |
| Huey Long | Louisiana Senator who believed in "Share Our Wealth" |
| NIRA | created a set of codes for industry to promote cooperation rather than competition; prevented price gauging, labor shortages |
| TVA | agency that construced a sereis of dams and electric generating facilities; created jobs |
| Social Security Act | agency that created a government pension for elderly and the disabled |
| PWA | agency that created jobs including building bridges, schools and roads |
| WPA | agency that employed teachers , artists, musicians etc. |
| Francis Townsend | critic of FDR who proposed a pension for elderly |
| Frances Perkins | FDR's Secretary of Labor |
| Mary McLeod Bethune | African American Educator who was part of FDR's Black Cabinet |
| Brain Trust | FDR's expert advisors on New Deal Program |
| polio | disease that FDR had |
| 21st amendment | repealed prohibition |
| 18th amendment | amendment that prohibited the consumption and alcohol |
| Emergency Banking Relief Act | EBRA |
| Federal Emergency Relief Agency | FERA |
| Civilian Conservation Corp | CCC |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | FDIC |
| Securities and Excahnge Commission | SEC |
| Agricultural adjustment Administration | AAA |
| National Industrial REcovery Act | NiRA |
| Works Progress Administration | WPA |
| Public Works Administration | PWA |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | TVA |
| Social Security Act | SSA |
| Father Coughlin | Radio priest who criticized FDR |
| EBRA | with this legislation the banks were regulated; FDR even declared a bank holiday to stop the widespread panic |
| Keynesian Economics | defecit spending |
| John Maynard Keynes | economist who believed that if a country was in a depression, that the governemnts should spend more revenue than the take in - |
