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The fireside chats were a serious of radio addresses by US president Franklin D Roosevelt. These chats helped FDR become popular with the US citizens. |
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Agriculture Adjustment Act
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This was a US federal law that was apart of president FDR's new deal which reduced agriculture production by paying farmers subsidies for not growing a certain crop or only growing on one part of their land. |
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National Recovery Act
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This was a law passed by the United States Congress in 1933 to authorize the President to regulate industry in an attempt to raise prices after severe deflation and stimulate economic recovery. |
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Securities & Exchange Commission
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| An agency of the US federal government that holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws, proposing securities rules, and regulating the securities industry, the nation's stock and options exchanges, and other activities and organizations, including the electronic securities markets in the United States. |
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Social Security Act
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| An act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision for aged persons, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, etc. |
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| Popular name for the assemblage of 43,000 marches in D.C mostly made up of World War 1 veterans who demanded cash payment redemption of their service certificate. |
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Tennesse Valley Authority
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| A federally owned corporation in the U.S created by congress in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennesse valley. |
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The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion caused the phenomenon.
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Court Packing Plan
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| This was president Franklin D Roosevelt's plan to add more justices to the supreme court that favored him more because the current justices kept deeming his laws unconstitutional however it was never put into motion because the American people thought Roosevelt was abusing his power so he didnt go through with it. |
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| This was U.S president FDR's plan to close all banking transactions except for making change and after a certain period of time if a bank was sound it could reopen but if the bank had problems it would stay closed until fixed by the governemnt. |
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