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chap 13 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| new deal | a vague idea of how to combat the deprression |
| Fireside chat | an informal radio speech to the american public |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (fdic) | insured bank deposits up to 5,000 |
| Tennessee valley federal authority | a government agency that built a series of dams in the Tennessee river valley control floods and to generate electrical power |
| civilian conservation corps (ccc) | the CCC provide jobs for more than 2 million young men |
| National recovery administration (nra) | nra new deal agency that promoted economic recovery by regulating production prices and wages |
| Public works administration(pwa) | provided millions of jobs the public constructing public buildings |
| second new deal | addressed the problems of the elderly poor unempolyed and the disabled |
| works progress administration | KEY NEW DEAL AGENCY that provided work relief through various public works |
| Pump priming | theory that favored public works projects , stimulating money |
| Social security act | established a money system for retirees and gave insurance to the unemployed and the dissabled |
| Wagner act | abolished unfair labor practice gave the right to form a workers union and the right to collective bargain |
| Fair labor standards act | law that set min. wage a max.of 44 work hours and outlawed child labor |
| Congress of industrial organizations (cio) | represents unskilled industrial workers |
| Sit down strike | LABOR PROTEST IN WHICH WORKERS STOP WORKING AND OCCUPY THE WORKPLACE UNTIL THIER DEMANDS ARE MET |
| Court packing | Roosevelt plan to add six new justices to the nine member supreme court after the court had ruled some new deal acts was unconstiotional |
| collective bargaining | NEGOTIATING |
| Black cabinet | PEOPLE THAT TOLD THE PRES ABOUT THE PROBLEMS WITH THE BLAcKS |
| Indian new deal | gave indians greater control over their affairs and provided funding for schools and hospitals |
| New deal coalition | political force formed by diverse groups who united to support FDR and the NEW DEAL |
| Welfare state | government gets the responsibility of providing for the poor unemployed elderly and dissalbed |
| The Wizard of Oz | MOST MEMORABLE it showed the weary that dreams really do come true |
| war of the worlds | a book by orson wells was read on the radio very one that tuned thought aliens were coming |
| federal art project | when WPA hired unemployed artist to create artworks for the public |
| Mural | LARGE PICTURE PAINTED DIRECTLY AN A WALL OR CEILING |
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