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a term used to refer to a migrant farm worker from Oklahoma or near by states, especially one who moved westward during the Great depression | Okies |
FDR's Wife and New Deal supporter. Was a great supporter of civil rights and opposed the Jim Crow laws. She also worked for birth control and better conditions for working women | Eleanor Roosevelt |
an informal group of African-American public policy advisors to United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt. | Black Cabinet |
United States educator who worked to improve race relations and educational OPPORTUNITIES for Black Americans | Mary McLeod Bethune |
group of government programs and policies established under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s; the New Deal was designed to improve conditions for persons suffering in the Great Depression | New Deal |
a new set of programs in the spring of 1935 including additional BANKING reforms, new tax laws, new relief programs; | Second New Deal |
work on projects that benefited the public, planting trees to reforest areas, building levees for flood control, and improving national parks, | C.C.C. (Civilian Conservation Corps) |
which insured individual DEPOSITS up to $5000, thereby eliminating the epidemic of bank failure and restoring faith to banks. | F.D.I.C. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) |
Federal Art Project the visual arts arm of the Great Depression, artists created posters, murals and paintings | Federal Art Project |
prime New Deal agency established by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) in 1933. The goal was to eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry, labor and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices. | N.R.A. |
Large federal employment program, established in 1935 under Harry Hopkins that provided jobs in areas from road building to art | W.P.A. |
intended both for industrial recovery and for unemployment relief. aimed at long-range recovery by spending over $4 billion on some 34,000 projects that included public buildings, highways, and parkways | P.W.A. |
A law enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to create a system of transfer payments in which younger, working people support older, retired people. | Social Security Act |
New Deal farm agency that attempted to raise prices by paying farmers to reduce their production of crops and animals | A.A.A. |
United States law which sets out various labor regulations regarding interstate commerce employment, including minimum wages, requirements for overtime pay and limitations on child labor | Fair Labor Standards Act |
Built dams for flood control and hydroelectric power in the Tennessee valley, created projects to combat erosion and deforestation | T.V.A. |
1933 act which required promoters to transmit to the investor sworn information regarding the soundness of their stocks and bonds | Federal Securities Act |
Provided job training for unemployed young people and part-time jobs for needy students | National Youth Administration |
FDR tried to appoint lots of new supreme court justices urgently, all based on the fact they were his allies and liked new deal, did not do it fairly. People were angry he tried to disrupt the checks and balances system | Court Packing |