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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH CHP 32-34 EXAM
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Question 1: The New Deal
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Phrase used to describe all of Franklin Roosevelt's policies and progams to combat the Great Depression.
Question 2: Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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Large federal employment program, established in 1935 under Harry Hopkins, that provided jobs in areas from road building to art.
Question 3: Hundred Days Congress
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Popular term for the special session of Congress in early 1933 that rapidly passed vast quantities of Roosevelt-initiated legislation and handed the president sweeping power.
Question 4: Brain Trust
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FDR's reform-minded intellectual advisers, who conceived much of the New Deal legislation.
Question 5: Dust Bowl
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The drought-stricken plains areas from which hundreds of thousands pf Okies and Arkies were driven during the Great Depression.
Question 6: American Liberty League (ALL)
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Organization of wealthy Republicans and conservative Democrats whose attacks on the New Deal caused Roosevelt to denounce them as economic royalists in the campaign of 1936.
Question 7: Social Security Act
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New Deal program that financed old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, and other forms of income assistance.
Question 8: Kaynesian Theory
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Economic theory of British economist who held that governments should run deliberate deficits to aid the economy in times of depression.
Question 9: Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
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New Deal agency that aroused strong conservative criticism by producing low-cost electrical power while providing full employment, soil conservation, and low cost housing to an entire region.
Question 10: Securities and Exchange Commission
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New Deal agency established to provide a public watchdog against deception and fraud in stock trading.
Question 11: Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC)
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The early New Deal agency that worked to solve the problems of unemployment and conservation by employing youth in reforestation and other beneficial tasks.
Question 12: Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO)
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The new union group that organized large numbers of unskilled workers with the help of the Wagner Act and the National Labor Relations Board.
Question 13: National Recovery Administration
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Attempted to reorganize and reform U.S. industry. Symbol=blue eagle.
Question 14: Court-packing
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Roosevelt's highly criticized scheme for gaining Supreme Court approval of New Deal legislation.
Question 15: Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
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New Deal farm agency that attempted to raise prices by paying farmers to reduce their production of crops and animals.