| A | B |
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| New Deal | President Rooseveelt's plan for helping the economy during the Great Depression |
| Huey Long | Senator from Louisiana famous for opposition to the New Deal |
| Social Security Act | Law that provide retirement penisions, unemployment insurance and payments to people with disabilities and to widows, cildren of deceased male workers. |
| Sit Down strike | Used by striking workers to prevent owners from replacing them by refusing to leave the facgtories |
| Dust Bowl | Name given to parts of the Great Plains in the 1930's after a severe drought struck the region. |
| The Grapes of Wrath | John Steinbeck's novel about the Dust Bowl migdrants who move to California during the Great Depression |
| Works Progress Administration | WPA. New Deal Agency created in 1934 to put American men and women to work. |
| Great Depression | Serious global econonic decline that began with the crash of the U.S. Stock Market in 1929. |
| Margin buying | Practice of borrowing money to puchase stocks. |
| Al Capone | Chicago Mobster involved in bootlegging |
| Marcus Garvey | Founder of Back to Africa movement |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | New Deal program targeting 7 state area |
| Demobililzation | process of switching from war to peace time production levels. |
| Diego Rivera | Mexican muralist |
| Harlem Renaissance | Great creative productivity during the 1920's by African Americans |
| 19th Amendment | Amendment giving women right to vote. |
| Langston Hughes | Harlem Renaissance writer and author of "I Too" |
| NAACP | Founded by W.E.B Du Bois to fight discrimination and lynchings |
| Red Scare | Emotional frenzy born out of threat of communism |
| FDR | President and author of the New Deal |
