APUSH Chp 32-34 Word Scramble

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Question	Answer
The New Deal	Phrase used to describe all of Franklin Roosevelt's policies and progams to combat the Great Depression.
Brain Trust	FDR's reform-minded intellectual advisers, who conceived much of the New Deal legislation.
Hundred Days Congress	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.
Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC)	The early New Deal agency that worked to solve the problems of unemployment and conservation by employing youth in reforestation and other beneficial tasks.
Works Progress Administration (WPA)	Large federal employment program, established in 1935 under Harry Hopkins, that provided jobs in areas from road building to art.
National Recovery Administration	Attempted to reorganize and reform U.S. industry. Symbol=blue eagle.
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)	New Deal farm agency that attempted to raise prices by paying farmers to reduce their production of crops and animals.
Dust Bowl	The drought-stricken plains areas from which hundreds of thousands pf Okies and Arkies were driven during the Great Depression.
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)	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.
Social Security Act	New Deal program that financed old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, and other forms of income assistance.
Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO)	The new union group that organized large numbers of unskilled workers with the help of the Wagner Act and the National Labor Relations Board.
Securities and Exchange Commission	New Deal agency established to provide a public watchdog against deception and fraud in stock trading.
American Liberty League (ALL)	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.
Court-packing	Roosevelt's highly criticized scheme for gaining Supreme Court approval of New Deal legislation.
Kaynesian Theory	Economic theory of British economist who held that governments should run deliberate deficits to aid the economy in times of depression.

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