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| Herbert Hoover | this Republican won the presidential election of 1928 |
| Black Tuesday | this term refers to the stock market crash of October 29, 1929 |
| fireside chats | the way FDR used the radio to contact with the American people |
| buying on the margin | refers to paying a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest |
| black cabinet | a group of black advisors to FDR |
| Hoovervilles | name given to shantytowns during the Great Depression |
| deficit spending | borrowing money to finance the New Deal |
| Dust Bowl | this caused a migration of people, mainly farmers, moving from states like Oklahoma and Arkansas, to the western US |
| Brain Trust | group of academics who advised Roosevelt |
| Bonus Army | consisted of WWI veterans and their families |
| Glass-Steagall Banking Act | this established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), with the greater goal of restoring public confidence in the banking system |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | created by the Federal Securities Act |
| Federal Emergency Relief Administration | provided direct relief int he form of food and clothing to the neediest people hit by the Depression--the unemployed, the aged, and the ill |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | this helped to create propsperity in a poverty-stricken region by providing funds to build and repair dams, flood-control projects, and power plants |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act | this paid farmers to lower production and, in some cases, to destroy crops, with the greater goal of raising crop prices and farm income |
| Civilian Conservation Corps | this put almost 3 million young men to work building roads, developing parks, and helping in soil-erosion and flood-control projects |
| Father Charles Coughlen | Roman Catholic radio priest who criticized President Roosevelt and the New Deal |
| Frances Townsend | retired dentist who pushed for a program to provide old age pensions |
| court packing plan | FDR's effort to make the Supreme Court friendly to the New Deal |
| pump priming | using govenment spending to revive the economy |
| The Grapes of Wrath | this classic novel by John Steinbeck focuses on the difficulties faced by people who, forced off the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl, move to California |
| New Deal Agencies | government programs to fight the effects of depression |
| Social Security Act | this provides for an old-age insurance program |
| Huey Long | popular Louisiana senator who hoped to challenge FDR in 1936 |
| Securities and Exchange Commission | created in 1934, this continues to monitor the stock market and enforce laws regarding the sale of stocks and bonds |
| Liberty League | group of conservative politicians and businessmen who criticized Roosevelt and the New Deal |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | created through the Glass-Steagall Banking Act, this has shored up the banking system by protecting people's savings against loss in the event of a bank failure |
| New Deal | FDR's economic package of relief, recovery, and reform |
| the 3 R's | relief, recovery, reform |
| Fair Labor Standards Act | this set a national, minimum hourly wage, and prohibited factory labor for children under 16 years of age |
