| A | B |
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| Franklin Roosevelt | introduced the New Deal program to America that offered relief to individuals |
| Herbert Hoover | feared that Americans would become too dependent on the federal government |
| Foreclosures | many farmers lost their farms due to this legal process |
| overspeculating | many people were doing when buying stocks because they believed the value would increase |
| Federal Reserve Board | this institution lowered interest rates but did little to prevent the banking system from collapsing |
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation | introduced under Hoover but did little to help |
| FDIC | one of Roosevelt's alphabet agencies that protects and insures bank deposits |
| Works Progress Administration | provided immediate relief by providing some Americans with jobs |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act | another of Roosevelt's alphabet agencies designed to help farmers |
| Social Security Act | provides retirement funds after a certain age |
| Dust Bowl | period in American history that swept the Plains and Midwest because of drought and land deterioration |
| Black Blizzards | name given to the great dust storms of the 1930s |
| Stock Market Crash | happened in 1929 when the "bottom fell out" of the stock market |
| Smoot Hawley Tariff | protective tariff to protect American business |
| George Washington | Chairman of the Constitutional Convention |
| James Madison | Father of the Constitution |
| James Madison | Author of the Virginia Plan |
| Federalists | favored a strong national government |
| Bill of Rights | First 10 amendments to the Constitution |
| George Mason | wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote the Statute for Religious Freedom |
| Statute For Religious Freedom | outlawed the established church |
| Judicial branch | This branch of govenment interprets the laws |
| Legislative branch | this branch of government makes the laws |
| Executive branch | branch of government that carries out the laws |
| Articles of Confederation | provided for a weak national government |
| Great Compromise | agreement to have two house Congress where representation for big states and small states was balanced |
| Land Ordinance | plan for surveying public land west of the Appalachians and north of the Ohio River |
| Northwest Ordinance | plan for dividing land into territories and admitting new states into the Union |
| Shays Rebellion | Final blow to the Articles of Confederation |
| Anti Federalists | opposed the Constitution and a strong federal government |
