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Brain Trust |
small group of reform-minded intellectuals who ghost-wrote many of FDR's speeches and authored much of the New deal legislation |
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Fireside chats |
fdr's 30 famous radio broadcasts that he used to speak directly to the people and assure them that the times were getting better and he was working to end the depression |
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Glass Steagall act |
created the Federal deposit insurance corporation which insured individual deposits up to $5,000 in order to lessen the disastrous outcomes of bank failures |
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Civilian conservation Corps |
provided employment in fresh air government camps for about 3 million young men their work inconcluded reforestation, fire fighting, flood control, and swamp drainage |
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Harry Hopkins |
New York social worker and friend of FDR who headed the federal emergency relief administration and the civil works administration |
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Father Coughlin |
Catholic priest nicknamed microphone Messiah because of his anti-new deal radio broadcasts that eventually became very anti-semitic and fascist |
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Francis Townsend |
A retired California physician known for his incredibly unrealistic promise to give everyone over 60 $200 a month. |
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Huey Long |
Louisiana senator who promised to make every man a king with his share the wealth program that promised every family $5,000 at the expense of the rich. |
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Francis perkins |
Secretary of labor, burst the gender barrier by becoming America's first woman cabinet member. |
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National recovery administration |
New deal legislation that was designed to create short and long-term relief through establishing a minimum wage, restricting maximum work hours, outgoing yellow dog contract, restricting child labor, and formerly guaranteeing the right of laborers to organize and bargain collectively under representatives of their own choosing. |
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Schechter V US |
supreme Court ruled that Congress could not delegate legislative powers to the president and declared that Congressional control of interstate commerce did not apply to a local chicken business. |
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Public works administration |
headed by Harold ickes focused on long-range recovery through public works such as construction of dams, public building, highways and parkways. |
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21st Amendment |
Officially repealed the eighteenth amendment ending Prohibition in 1933 |
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Dust bowl |
the area from Eastern Colorado to Western Missouri was hit with violent wind storms that throw around the dryer and apparently topsoil that had resulted from several weeks of drought and bad farming practices. |
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Securities and exchange commission |
Designs to help protect the public against fraud, deception and manipulation. stated that stock markets would henceforth operate more and trading marts and less like gambling casinos. |
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Tennessee valley authority |
use the Tennessee River valley for the government to produce electrical power and to determine the cost of production and distribution of electricity in order to properly regulate the electric power industry. Also help relieve unemployment. |
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Social security act |
Provided for federal dash state unemployment insurance in order to cushion future depressions. also provided regular Federal payments to certain groups of retired workers as well as aid to the blind, physically handicapped and other dependents. |
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Wagner act |
created the national labor relations board for administrative purposes and reinforce the rights of laborers to organize and bargain collectively their their own chosen Representatives. |
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National labor relations board |
Established by the Wagner act, reasserted the right of laborers to organize and bargain collectively under representatives of their own choosing. |
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Liberty league |
Group of wealthy conservatives who organized in 1934 to fight the "socialistic" ideas of the new deal |
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20th amendment |
Remove the post-election wind duck session of Congress and shortened the awkward period before inauguration by 6 weeks. |
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Court-packing plan |
FDR's proposition to Congress that asked for legislation to permit him to add a new supreme Court Justice for every member over 70 who wouldn't retire. |
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FDIC |
Agency created by the glass-steagall ACT words to end the devastating effects of bank failures through deposit insurance |