| A | B |
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| Federal Securities Act | the Government monitors/watches the Stock Market |
| fireside chats | President Roosevelt (FDR) spoke to the nation over the radio to calm the fears of the nation |
| Gone with The Wind | a movie made during the 1930s about the Civil War in the South/Atlanta ... Scarlet O'Hara |
| The Grapes of Wrath | it told the hard life of people from Oklahoma traveling to California to find work during the Great Depression (Grapes are grown in Central California for wine) |
| Happy Days are here again | FDR's campaign slogan |
| Harley-Smoot Tariff | high tax on imports in 1930s to get people to buy American goods - resulted in US isolation |
| Hoovervilles | Shantytowns |
| Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 | it put an end to the sale of Native American land |
| insure bank deposits | what the Federal Govt. to protect people's savings accounts |
| Li'l Abner | a comic strip about Hillbillies (people living in the mountains in West Virginia) - created in the 1920s |
| Little Orphanie Annie | a comic strip about a young girl without any parents or money who is adopted by a rich person |
| loss of people's savings | this happened when Banks failed |
| mass unemployment | when large numbers of people are out of work |
| Minimum Wage Legislation | the Govt. sets the lowest hourly rate a person can be paid .. right now its over $5 |
| movies of the 1930s | these were made so people could escape the misery/sadness of their daily lives (films included: The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Mutiny on the Bounty |
| Mutiny on the Bounty | a 1930s film about people taking over a ship in the Pacific & then landing on an exotic island |
| National Bank Holiday | when the Govt. ordered all banks closed |
| Federal Emergency Relief Act (1933) | the Federal Govt. gives $500 million to States to give/distribute to the poor |
| National Industry Recovery Act (NIRA) | Govt. regulation of business, working conditions, price/cost of goods |
| National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) | Federal Govt. Board/Group which ENFORCED the "Wagner Act" - collective bargaining & union rights |
| Negro Affairs Office of National Youth Administration (NYA) | Federal Govt. Organization - develop & supervise programs to help African-Americans |
| New Deal | President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's program to get the US out of the Depression: the 3 Rs Relief, Recovery, & Reform |
| Oklahoma | one of the States almost destroyed economically when many of its farms became part of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s |
| Presidential term limits | this means a person can only serve as President of the US for a certain amount of time |
| Public Works Administration (PWA) | it helped rebuild MASSIVE items: such as in NYC: the Triboro Bridge, in Florida: the highway (causeway) between Miami & Key West |
| ragtime | a form of music in the 1930s - combination of the blues & jazz |
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) | 1932 - President Hoover's attempt to help the economy - give money to banks so they could give loans to people .. too little, too late |
