Chapter 33 - The Great Depression and the New Deal 

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Eleanor Roosevelt

________, FDRs wife was very active in FDRs political career with her being loved by liberals and hated by conservatives.

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Federal Housing Administration

________ was passed in 1934 with it trying to improve the home- building industry.

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National Recovery Administration

The ________ was designed to bring industries together in order to create a set of "fair "business practices.

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Roosevelt

________ proposed the Court- packing plan which received a lot of negative feedback from the public.

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FDR

________ believed that the government was morally bound to preventing mass hunger and starvation by "managing "the economy and potentially saved capitalism by eliminating some of faults such as poor labor conditions.

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Agricultural Adjustment Act of

The Second ________ 1938 continued conservation payments and ff farmers obeyed the acreage restrictions, they would be eligible for payments.

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Home Owners Loan Corporations

________ helped households that had trouble paying their mortgages to Civilian to.

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Dust Bowl

The ________ struck many states in the trans- Mississippi Great Plains, late in 1933.

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Ruth Benedict

________ made several strides in the field of anthropology.

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Civillian Conservation Corps

The ________ employed approximately 3 million men in government camps with work including reforestation, fighting fires, flood control, and swamp drainage.

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Indian Reorganization Act of 1934

________ encouraged Native American tribes to establish self- government and to preserve their native crafts and traditions.

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Agricultural Adjustment Agency

The ________ also paid farmers to not farm in order to reduce their crop harvests.

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Securities and Exchange Commission

The ________ was created in 1934, with it providing oversight of the stock market.

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Public Works Administration

________ was meant to provide long- term recovery with it spending over $ 4 billion on thousands of projects, such as public buildings, highways, and dams.

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NRA

The ________ was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1935 due to Schechter vs. United States due to the ________ giving legislative powers to the President and allowing Congress to control individual businesses.

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Agricultural Adjustment Administration

________ tried to reduce crop surpluses which led to lower crop prices and established standard "parity prices "for basic commodities.

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Keynesianism economics

________ consisted of government being used to "prime the pump "of the economy and encourage consumer spending with this policy intentionally creating a budget deficit.

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Civil Works Administration

________ was a branch of the FERA and was designed to provide temporary jobs during emergencies in the winter.

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Congress

________ passed the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936 in an attempt to make farmers farm less and they reduced crop acreage by paying farmers to plant soil- conserving crops.

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FDR

________ created jobs with federal money in order to jumpstart the economy.

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FDR

________ won the election of 1932 with a majority in the popular vote and the Electoral College.

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FDR

________ also had the goal of creating modest inflation which would relieve debtors burdens and stimulate new production.

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Congress

________ passed the Emergency Banking Relief Act of 1933 which gave the President the power to regulate banking transactions and foreign exchange in order to reopen solvent banks.

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