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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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1. President during the 1930's who created the New Deal and its reform programs
2. Born into an old, wealthy New York family
3. Entered politics as a state senator in 1910 and later became assistant secretary of the navy
3. Became partially paralyzed (waist down) in 1921 when he was stricken with polio
4. Became the governor of New York in 1928 and moved onto the White House in 1933
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1. Niece of Theodore Roosevelt and a distant cousin of her husband Franklin Roosevelt
2. Raised by a strict grandmother when she lost her parents at a young age
3. As first lady, she urged FDR to take stands on controversial issues
4. Particularly interested in child welfare, housing reform, and equal rights for women and minorities
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1. Senator from Louisiana during the time of the New Deal
2. Early supporter of Roosevelt but turned against the New Deal
3. Eager to win presidency for himself, he proposed a nation wide social program called Share-Our-Wealth that became very popular
4. In the same year of creating this program, he was assassinated by a lone gunman |
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1. A Roman Catholic priest from a suburb of Detroit
2. Broadcasted radio sermons that combined economic, political, and religious ideas
3. Initially a supporter of the New Deal but soon turned against Roosevelt
4.Favored a guarenteed annual income and the nationalization of banks |
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| Governmental goals set by Roosevelt that focused on relief for the needy, economic recovery, and financial reform |
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| Tennessee Valley Authority |
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1. Environmental conservation act that was part of the New Deal
2. Harnessed water power (constructed dams) to generate electricity and to help prevent disastrous floods |
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| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) |
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| an agency created in 1933 to insure individuals' banking accounts, protecting people against losses due to bank failures |
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| Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) |
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| an agency, established as part of the new deal, that put young unemployed men to work (with small wages) building roads, developing parks, planting trees, and helping in erosion-control and flood-control projects |
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| Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) |
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| regulated the stock market by preventing people with inside information about companies from "rigging" it to make their own profit |
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1. Old-age insurance for retirees 65 and older and their spouses (half the funds came from the worker and the other half from the employer, which made retirement more comfortable to many)
2. Unemployment Compensation System (funded by federal tax and administered at a state level)
3. Aid to families with dependent children and the disabled (paid for by federal funds made available to the state) |
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| Works Progress Administration (WPA) |
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| An agency, established as part of the Second New Deal, that provided the unemployed with jobs in construction, garment making, teaching, the arts, and other fields |
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| National Recovery Administration (NRA) |
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| set prices of many products and established standards to promote economic recovery |
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| National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) |
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| provided money to states to create jobs chiefly in the construction of schools and other community buildings |
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| Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act) |
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1. reestablished the NIRA provision of collective bargaining
2. the federal government again protected the right of workers to join unions and engage in collective bargaining with employers
3. Prohibited unfair labor practices |
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| spending more money that the government receives in revenue |
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| an alignment of diverse groups created by FDR dedicated to supporting the Democratic party (made the Democrats dominate through the 1930s and 1940s) |
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