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| Which act offered unemployed young men the oppurtunity to work planting trees, fighting forest fires, and building resevoirs? |
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| Civilian Conservation Corps |
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| Which act guranteed workers the right to organize unions without interference from employers? |
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| Committee for Industrial Organization |
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| Which act required banks to get a license from the treasury department? |
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| Emergency banking relief act |
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| Which act required companies that sold stock to provide truthful information to investors? |
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| Securities Exchange Commission |
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| Which act paid farmers to only grow certain crops and livestock in order to reduce the surplus? |
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| Agricultural Adjustment Act |
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| National Industrial Recovery |
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| Which act created the National Recovery Administration and allowed industries to set their own work standards? |
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| Which act seperated commercial banking from investment banking and insured bank deposits? |
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| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
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| Which administration financed rural electrification and helped develop the economy of a seven-state industry, including Alabama? |
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| Tennessee Valley Authority |
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| Which administration bought mortgages for homeowners who were behind in their house payments and provided lower interest rates? |
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| Homeowner Loan Corporation |
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| Which administration financed farm loans? |
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| Farm Credit Administration |
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| Which administration gave money to state and local agencies to start up their own relief efforts? |
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| Federal Emergency Relief Administration |
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| Which administration gave contracts to construction companies to complete projects like highways, sewers, and dams? |
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| Public Works Administration |
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| Which administration hired workers directly under the federal government in order to get the people through the winter? |
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| Civil Works Administration |
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| Which administration set aside five billion dollars to increase employment by creating useful projects like highways, parks, etc.? |
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| Which act provided a monthly retirement benefit to people over the age of 65 and was funded through payroll taxes? |
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| Which act aided the nation's poor by buying slums, tearing them down, and building low cost housing? |
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| Which administration gave loans to tenant farmers so that they could buy their own farms? |
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| Farm Security Administration |
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| Which act established child labor and established a 40-hour work week? |
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| Why did states make up bank holidays? |
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| To keep people from doing bank runs |
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| Why did bank runs take place before Roosevelt 's inaguration? |
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| people had lost faith in banks |
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| Who was FDR's biggest political threat from the Democratic party? |
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| Explain Keynesian economics? |
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| When in a recession spend a lot |
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| Why was the Federal Number One program controversial? |
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| It gave artistic jobs to the unemployed |
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| What disease crippled FDR? |
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| What was FDR's main goal during his first term in office? |
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| Put people's faith back in banks |
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| What did the Supreme Court strike-down in Schecter v. U.S. ? |
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| What type of jobs did the Public Works Administration create? |
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| Projects to improve and construct government facilities |
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| Which federal agency was most beneficial to the south? |
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| Tennessee Valley Authority |
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| Explain FDR's "court packing plan" and why it was a bad idea? |
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To add a younger justice for every justice seventy years and older.
Such a plan is unconstitutional |
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| Which group of Americans was most hurt by the Depression? |
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| FDR passed 15 major acts between March 9 and June 16, 1933, a period known as what? |
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| What purpouse did sit-down strikes serve? |
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| To get what the workers preferred as better working conditions |
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| Who delivered FDR's speeches while he recovered from his illness? |
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| The name given to FDR's policies for ending the Depression was what? |
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| What is defecit spending? |
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| Spending money you don't have |
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| Working out conflicts among different interests |
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| How did FDR regularly address the American public? |
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