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The New Deal
from 1933-1939
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| new deal | Franklin D. Roosevelt. Lowered unemployment, gave the right to join union, and gave food, shelter, and wages to CCC workers |
| bank holiday | Temporary shutdown of all banks |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | An agency of the federal government which insures bank deposits up to a stated maximum. |
| Civilian Conservation Corps | Government agency formed to relieve the mass unemployment of the Great Depression and to restore abused lands in the 1930's. In the southeast, many in the CCC were used to replant cutover longleaf forests with slash or loblolly pine. They were also used t |
| National Industrial Recovery Act | an act of Congress (1933, declared unconstitutional in 1936) that enabled the president and the National Recovery Administration to formulate and execute measures for reducing industrial unemployment. |
| agricultural adjustment administration | AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ADMINISTRATION [Agricultural Adjustment Administration] (AAA), former U.S. government agency established (1933) in the Dept. of Agriculture under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New De |
| Agricultural Adjustment Administration | U.S. government agency established (1933) in the Dept. of Agriculture under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal program. Its purpose was to help farmers |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | is a New Deal agency created to generate electric power and control floods in a seven-U.S.-state region around the Tennessee River Valley. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act creating the TVA on May 18, 1933. The age |