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| public works | Government-funded building projects that provide jobs |
| fireside chats | Conversational radio addresses given by Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| Hundred Days | The first hundred days of Franklin Roosevelt's term as president during which Roosevelt implemented many new programs |
| subsidy | A government payment that is aimed at achieving some public benefit |
| New Deal | A plan by President Franklin Roosevelt intended to bring economic relief, recovery, and reforms to the country after the Great Depression |
| Second New Deal | A new set of programs in the spring of 1935 including additional banking reforms, new tax laws, new relief programs; also known as the Second Hundred Days |
| Social Security | Asystem for providing pensions for many Americans age 65 and older |
| CIO | A group that broke away from the AFL to form the Committee for Industrial Organization; it later changed its name to Congress of Industrial Organizations |
| sit-down strike | A strike in which workers refuse to work or leave the workplace until a settlement is reached |
| deficit | When a government spends more money than it takes in |
| Black Cabinet | Nickname for a group of AFrican Americans Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed to key government positions; they served as unofficial advisors to the president |
| swing | A type of jazz music popular in the 1930's |
| minimum wage | The lowest wage an employer can legally pay a worker |
| incumbent | The person who settles in a new country |
