9403482598 | Dust bowl | A drought in the 1930s that turned the Great Planes very dry. | 0 | |
9403482599 | Federal Housing Administration | It insured bank loans for building new houses and repairing old ones. (p. 505) | 1 | |
9403482600 | Sit down strike | Method of boycotting work by sitting down at work and refusing to leave the establishment | 2 | |
9403482601 | Congress of Industrial Organizations | union organization of unskilled workers broke away from AFL in 1935 and rejoined in 1955 | 3 | |
9403482602 | Share Our Wealth Plan | Huey Long's proposal to redistribute income in the US | 4 | |
9403482603 | Works Progress Administration | Program of the New Deal to perform public works to put people back to work. | 5 | |
9403482604 | welfare state | a state that assumes primary responsibility for the social welfare of its citizens | 6 | |
9403482605 | Social Security Act | created a tax on workers and employers. That money provided monthly pensions for retired people. | 7 | |
9403482606 | Court Packing Plan | FDR's failed plan to pack the court with hand picked judges | 8 | |
9403482607 | minimum wage laws | laws specifying the lowest wage a firm can legally pay an employee | 9 | |
9403482608 | Indian New Deal | a program that gave Native Americans economic assistance and greater control over tribal affairs | 10 | |
9403482609 | Popular Front | a leftist coalition organized against a common opponent | 11 | |
9403482610 | Scottsboro Boys | Nine black boys were accused of raping two white women near Scottsboro, Alabama | 12 | |
9403482611 | House Un-American Activities Committee | A congressional committee created to search out disloyal Americans & Communists. | 13 |
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