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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH CHAPTER 34
EXAM QUESTIONS
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Question 1: National Labor Relations Board
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created by the National Labor Relations Act for administrative purposes of reinstating the right of labor to self-organize and bargain collectively
Question 2: Eleanor Roosevelt
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FDR's wife, a very active first lady
Question 3: New Deal
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FDR's plan to balance budget and decrease the deficit
Question 4: Securities and Exchange Commission
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a watchdog administrative agency
Question 5: Hundred Days Congress
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Congress formed by FDR that passed a series of laws to help the country cope with the Great Depression
Question 6: Three "R's"
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relief, recovery, reform
Question 7: 21st Amendment
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ended prohibition
Question 8: parity
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set a price for a product the same real value it had before 1909
Question 9: Liberty League
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a group of wealthy conservatives who organized to fight socialism and the New Deal
Question 10: Frances Perkins
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Secretary of Labor; first woman cabinet member
Question 11: George W. Norris
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Nebraska senator who was champion of the CVA in the 1930's
Question 12: Works Progress Administration
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the $11 billion program authorized by Congress in 1935 to employ people on useful projects for internal improvements
Question 13: Franklin
- Roosevelt
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Democratic candidate in the election of 1932; beat Hoover
Question 14: Public Works Administration
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headed by Harold L. Ickes; spent over $4 billion on thousands of projects
Question 15: Alfred M. Landon
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liberal Kansas governor who opposed FDR in the 1936 election
Question 16: Roosevelt Coalition
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the New Deal
Question 17: Agricultural Adjustment Act
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established "parity prices" for basic commodities and also paid farmers to reduce their crop acreage which eliminated surpluses and increased unemployment
Question 18: National Recovery Act
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created the National Recovery Administration which assisted industry, labor, and the unemployed
Question 19: Dust Bowl
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late 1933; partially caused by over-cultivation, etc.
Question 20: Schechter case
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1935; ruled that the president could not delegate legislative powers
Question 21: Francis Townsend
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a retired physician who attracted followers with his plan to give retired senior citizens pensions
Question 22: Civilian Conservation Corps
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provided employment for 3 million men in government camps
Question 23: Social Security Act
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provided for federal state unemployment; set aside specified categories of retired workers to receive regular payments from the government
Question 24: Tennessee Valley Authority
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assigned with the task of predicting how much the production and distribution of energy would cost for the Hoover Dam
Question 25: Brain Trust
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nickname given to the small group of reformers who served in FDR's cabinet
Question 26: Federal Housing Authority
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created to speed recovery and better homes
Question 27: John L. Lewis
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president of the United Mine Workers who led the movement to organize mine workers
Question 28: Congress of Industrial Organizations
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AF of L joined with the CIO in 1938 to form this