| A | B |
|---|
| FDIC | program that insures banking and checking accounts |
| SEC | new deal program that regulates the stock market |
| NRA | created a set of codes for industry to promote cooperation rather than competition |
| TVA | agency that construced a sereis of dams and electric generating facilities; created jobs |
| Social Security Act | agency that created a government pension for elderly and the disabled |
| PWA | agency that created jobs including building bridges, schools and roads |
| WPA | agency that employed teachers , artists, musicians etc. |
| Frances Perkins | FDR's Secretary of Labor |
| Brain Trust | FDR's expert advisors on New Deal Program |
| polio | disease that FDR had |
| 21st amendment | repealed prohibition |
| 18th amendment | amendment that prohibited the consumption and alcohol |
| Herbert Hoover | President at beginning of the Great Depression |
| Hoovervilles | shacks for homeless people |
| bank holiday | to stop the banks from failing |
