New Deal America
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| What political philosophies were on the rise during the Great Depression? | show 🗑
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| Who was Norman Thomas? | show 🗑
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| What were the three major challenges President Franklin Delano Roosevelt faced because of the Great Depression? | show 🗑
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| show | Remedy the bank crisis, relieve the unemployed, increase federal spending, recover industry, and raise depressed commodity prices
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| show | The four-day time period starting on March 9th, during which all banks were closed to calm the panic and allow Congress time to take action.
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| show | The Congressional legislature, which allowed sound banks to reopen and provided managers for banks that were still in trouble.
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| What was the Economy Act? | show 🗑
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| show | The Congressional legislature that amended the Volstead Act to permit the sale of alcoholic beverages with an alcohol content of 3.2 percent.
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| What was the Twenty-First Amendment? | show 🗑
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| show | The Congressional session from March 9th to June 16th, during which Congress enacted fifteen major proposals from FDR.
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| show | The reorganized unit containing all the federal farm credit agencies.
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| show | The Congressional legislature that refinanced farm mortgages at lower interest rates to stem the tide of foreclosures.
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| show | The Congressional legislature that reorganized federal agricultural subsidies at lower interest rates to stem the tide of foreclosures.
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| What was the Home Owners' Loan Act? | show 🗑
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| What was the Banking Act? | show 🗑
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| show | The Congressional legislature that required the full disclosure of information about new stock and bond issues.
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| show | The institution designed to replace the Federal Trade Commission in the regulation of stock and bond markets, as well as oversee the maintenance of the Federal Securities Act.
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| What did President Franklin Delano Roosevelt do with the currency during the Great Depression? | show 🗑
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| show | The institution designed to employ and educate unmarried men between 18 and 25 to build community projects.
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| show | The institution, led by Harry L. Hopkins, designed to address the problems of human distress by assisting the unemployed with federal grants.
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| What was the Civil Works Administration? | show 🗑
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| show | The Congressional legislature that provided work relief for the jobless.
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| show | The institution, headed by Harry L. Hopkins, that provided millions of jobs through the Federal Theatre Project, Federal Writers' Project, Federal Art Project, Federal Music Project, and the National Youth Administration.
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| show | The "brain trust" believed the trend to economic concentration was inevitable, and the government needed to regulate the economy.
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| show | The Congressional legislature that created the Agricultural Adjustment Administration to
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| What political philosophies were on the rise during the Great Depression? | show 🗑
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| show | The Socialist party candidate in the 1932 election
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| What were the three major challenges President Franklin Delano Roosevelt faced because of the Great Depression? | show 🗑
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| show | Remedy the bank crisis, relieve the unemployed, increase federal spending, recover industry, and raise depressed commodity prices
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| What was the Bank Holiday? | show 🗑
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| What was the Emergency Banking Relief Act? | show 🗑
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| show | The Congressional legislature, which allowed the executive branch the power to cut government salaries, reduce payments to military veterans not injured in war, and reorganize federal agencies to reduce federal expenses.
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| show | The Congressional legislature that amended the Volstead Act to permit the sale of alcoholic beverages with an alcohol content of 3.2 percent.
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| show | The Constitutional Amendment that ended prohibition.
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| What were the Hundred Days? | show 🗑
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| show | The reorganized unit containing all the federal farm credit agencies.
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| What was the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act? | show 🗑
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| show | The Congressional legislature that reorganized federal agricultural subsidies at lower interest rates to stem the tide of foreclosures.
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| What was the Home Owners' Loan Act? | show 🗑
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| What was the Banking Act? | show 🗑
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| What was the Federal Securities Act? | show 🗑
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| What was the Securities and Exchange Commission? | show 🗑
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| show | FDR abandoned the gold standard, increasing the prices by devaluing the dollar, and ease the debt burden on investors and farmers.
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| show | The institution designed to employ and educate unmarried men between 18 and 25 to build community projects.
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| What was the Federal Emergency Relief Administration? | show 🗑
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| What was the Civil Works Administration? | show 🗑
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| What was the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act? | show 🗑
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| What was the Works Progress Administration? | show 🗑
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| How was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "brain trust" progressive? | show 🗑
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| show | The Congressional legislature that created the Agricultural Adjustment Administration to control farm production by compensating farmers for voluntary cutbacks through tax levies in production, thus the demand would increase as the supply went down.
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| What was United States v. Butler? | show 🗑
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| show | The Congressional legislature in direct response to US v. Butler, which omitted processing taxes and acreage quotas, but provided benefits for soil-conservation practices that took land out of soil-depleting staple crops, to indirectly reduce crops.
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| show | The Congressional legislature that the Supreme Court approved, which retained the original AAA, except the processing taxes, and made benefit payments in the form of general federal funds.
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| show | The Congressional legislature that dealt with economic recovery and public-works projects, as well as the creation of the Public Works Administration and National Recovery Administration.
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| What was the Public Works Administration? | show 🗑
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| What was the National Recovery Administration? | show 🗑
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| show | The NRA set labor standards for duration and children, as well as guaranteed the rights of workers to organize unions.
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| What happened to the National Recovery Administration? | show 🗑
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