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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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| President of US, his New Deal helped stem and reverse the Great Depression |
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| the immediate cause of the Great Depression, triggered other economic issues |
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| a severe economic recession in the 1930's that began in US, but affected all the industrialized nations in the world |
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| camp cities of homeless & jobless peoples during the Great Depression, named after President Herbert Hoover who was widely criticized for not doing more to end the Depression. |
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| Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) |
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| an employment initiative begun under FDR's New Deal, brought electricity to many areas in the south. |
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| established collective bargaining rights and prohibited unfair labor practices |
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| a labor union organizing method through which all workers in the same industry are organized into the same union-regardless of skill or trade |
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| one of the most important of the New Deal reforms, established retirement income, unemployment protection and assistance for the disabled as well as orphaned children. |
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| the 2nd series of actions that FDR enacted in order to rebuild the economy during the Great Depression, Social Security was the main reform that came from this set |
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