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1930, triggered retaliatory tariffs in other countries, hindering global trade + greater economic contraction
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff
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15,000 unemployed WW1 veterans hitchhike to Washington, demand payment of pension awards
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Bonus Army
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FDRs use of the radio to connect with America, set up to give ideas of change
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Fireside Chats
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Congress enacts 15 major bills focused on 4 problems, banking failure, agricultural overproduction, the business slump, soaring unemployment
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Hundred Days
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Created Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, prohibits bank from making risky investments with people's money
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Glass-Steagall Act
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Direct government regulation of a farm economy, gave cash to those who cut production of the 7 major commodities
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Agricultural Adjustment Act
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Attacked declining production, set up self-governing associations in 600 industries, regulated prices
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National Recovery Administration
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Construction program, gave the unemployed jobs by repairing bridges, highways, and buildings
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Public Works Administration
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250k employed for reforestation and conservation work, bolstered national infrastructure
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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Permanently changed mortgage system, set foundation for home ownership expansion post WW2
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Federal Housing Administration
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Regulated stock market, determined how stocks and bonds were sold to the public
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Securities and Exchange Commission
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This plan supported old-age pensions, elderly retirement who would receive 200 dollars a month
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Townsend Plan
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Industrial democracies that adopted government-guarenteed social welfare programs
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Welfare State
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Upheld rights of workers to join unions
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Wagner Act
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Old age pensions for workers, system for compensation of unemployed workers, payments to widowed mothers and disabled
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Social Security Act
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Answer
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Held individual liberty to be the foundation of a democratic society
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Classical Liberalism
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Employed 8.5 million between 1935-1943, repaired/constructed roads, bridges, buildings, parks, airports
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Work Progress Administration
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Roosevelt believes Great Depression is over, cuts relief, unemployment spikes again
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Roosevelt Recession
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Created by ______, British economist, argued government could and should intervene in the economy
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Keynesian Economics
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"Indian New Deal", reversed 1887 Dawes Act, promoted Indian self-goverence
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Indian Reorganization Act
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Severe drought causes wind to blow tons of unrooted dirt across the Great Plains, mass migration out of central U.S. due to unlivable conditions
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Dust Bowl
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Modernized the Southern States, integrated flood control, reforestation, and electricity
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Tennessee Valley Authority
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1/10 of farms had electricity, promotes loans to farmers to install power lines
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Rural Electrification Administration
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31st president, increased severity of Great Depression by his adherence to the gold standard, caused billions to be lost
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Herbert Hoover
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32nd president, saved U.S. during Great Depression, enacted dozens of new financial aid organizations
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Political threat to FDR, Louisiana Senator, popular through his laws which greatly benefited the common person
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Huey Long
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First woman named to a cabinet post, Secretary of Labor, opened opportunities for women
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Frances Perkins
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FDRs wife, worked to expand female positions in politics, unions, education
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Founded Bethune-Cookman college, president of National Association for Colored Women, pushed for New Deal Acts to support African-Americans
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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Commissioner of BIA, pushed for Indian Reorganization Act
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John Collier
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