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first fireside chat
tried to create a bond to the citizens and through the radio he hid his polio -
stock market crash
largest stockmarket crash in the world most devastating -
dust bowl
series of dust storms that destroyed the agriculture industry caused by over farming of the land -
hawley-smoot tarrif act
this raised tariffs on over 20,000 items to record levels -
reconstruction finance corperation
it gave financial aid to banks railroads and other companies -
federal lone home bank act
act passed to reduce the cost of home ownership it only loaned money to people only three claims were approved -
bonus army gassed
about 43,000 people who had not been paid marched to washington to demand their pay and were tear gassed -
frances perkins
she became first female cabinet member helped pull labor movement into new deal -
FDR
was elected president in 1933 the only president to serve more than eight years -
the hundred days began
fdr passed fifteen seperate bills closed the banks and anded the panic -
glass-stegal act
seperated commercial and investment banking and limited commercial bank securities -
john collier
became commisioner of indian affairs -
mary bethune
she became head of negro affairs and nation youth adminastration -
wagner act
garentee the basic rights to form into unions -
hoover dam built
gave irrigation for crops and provided power for neighboring states -
court packing plan
bill passed to add more justices to the supreme court to favor the new deal -
nlrb v jones and laughlin steel company
a supreme court case that declared the wagner act constitutional -
congress of industrial orginazation
orginized workers into unions rival of the afl -
grapes of wrath published
told about migrational farmers and how the deppresion affected different people in different social classes -
eleanor roosevelt
began her work as a social reformer and was important in getting woman jobs in the white house
