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1930s
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Laws passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 to limit U.S. involvement in future wars. | Neutrality Acts |
Guaranteed the right of unions to organize and to collectively bargain with management. | Wagner Act |
A United States federal law of the New Deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. | AAA |
A group of U.S. government programs of the 1930s. President Franklin D. Roosevelt started the programs to help the country recover from the economic problems of the Great Depression. | New Deal |
Franklin D Roosevelt was elected this year. | Election of 1936 |
Guaranteed retirement payments to workers beginning at age 65. | Social Security Act |
A public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal. | CCC |
Was a prime New Deal agency established by U.S. president, FDR, in 1933. The goal was to eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices. | NRA |
Forced many farmers to migrate west to California. The dust was very dangerous and killed everything it blew over. | The Dust Bowl |
A federally owned corporation in the U.S created by congressional charter on May 18, 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation. | TVA |
Share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the Great Depression. | Black Tuesday |
Was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of people to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. | WPA |
Laws passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 to limit U.S. involvement in future wars. | Neutrality Acts |
Congress authorized the sale, lease, transfer, or exchange of arms and supplies to 'any country whose defense the president deems vital to the defense of the United States.' | Lend Lease Act |
The code name for the effort to develop atomic bombs for the United States during World War II. | Manhattan Project |