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| 303465775 | Father Charles Coughlin | the Catholic priest from Michigan Whose anti-New Deal harangues in the 1930's became so anti- Sematic, fascist, and demagogic that he was silenced by his superiors | |
| 303465776 | 1937 | the year in which a "Roosevelt recession" happened which was probably due to an overpaid cutting of government spending | |
| 303465777 | blue eagle | the symbol of the National Recovery Administration that was to be displayed in the windows of all businesses who adhered to its fair code | |
| 303465778 | Alfred M. Landon | the liberal Kansas governor nominated by the Republicans to oppose FDR in the 1936 election | |
| 303465779 | Dust Bowl | the nickname given to the drought-stricken, trans-Mississippi Great Plains of 1933-1934 | |
| 303465780 | Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act of 1934 | the 1934 act that tried to aid dust bowl-depressed farmers by suspending mortgage foreclosures for five years | |
| 303465781 | Agricultural Adjustment Act | the 1933 legislation which provided payments to farmers to reduce their crop acreage and provided money to farmers to meet their mortgage payments | |
| 303465782 | Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act of 1933 | the 1933 legislation that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to reduce bank failures | |
| 303465783 | 20th | the Constitutional amendment, ratified in 1933, changed the presidential inauguration from March 4th to January 20th | |
| 303465784 | Home Owner's Loan Corporation | the 1933 legislation designed to refinance mortgages on non-farm homes and bail out mortgage-holding banks | |
| 303465785 | Harry Hopkins | the chain-smoking New York social worker who was one of FDR's most influential advisers and head of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration in 1933 | |
| 303465786 | Brain Trust | the nickname given to the small group of reform-minded intellectuals who served as FDR's kitchen cabinet | |
| 303465787 | George W. Norris | the Nebraska senator who was champion of the TVA in the '30's | |
| 303465788 | Harold L. Ickes | the free-swinging ex-bull mooser who, as secretary of the interior, headed the Public Works Administration in 1933 | |
| 303465789 | John L. Lewis | the 1935 president of the United Mine Workers who led the 1930's drive to organize unskilled workers | |
| 303465790 | Federal Securities Act/Truth in Securities Act | the 1933 act which required promoters to transmit to the investor sworn information regarding the soundness of their stocks and bonds | |
| 303465791 | Huey P. Long | the Louisiana senator whose "Share Our Wealth" programs and promises of $5,000 to all poor families ended with his assassination in 1935 | |
| 303465792 | Federal Housing Administration | the agency created in 1934 which gave small loans to householders, both for improving their dwellings and for completing new ones | |
| 303465793 | National Labor Relations Act | one of the most important advances for organized labor came in 1935 when the Wagner Act was passed which allowed workers to organize and to bargain collectively. This is another name for the Wagner Act | |
| 303465794 | Emergency Banking Relief Act of 1933 | the 1933 legislation that gave FDR the power to regulate banking transactions and foreign exchange and to reopen solvent banks | |
| 303465795 | Fair Labor Standards Act/Wages & Hours Bill | the 1938 act which mandated that industries involved in interstate commerce set up minimum wage and maximum hour levels | |
| 303465796 | National Recovery Administration | the federal agency created in 1933 to combine immediate relief with long-range reform and recovery. It was designed to assist industry, labor, and the unemployed | |
| 303465797 | packing the Supreme Court | FDR's 1937 move to make sure more of his New Deal programs were not blocked by the courts | |
| 303465798 | The Hundred Days | the name given to the period March 9 to June16, 1933, durring which FDR and Congress hammered out hastily-prepared legislation to remedy the economic crisis | |
| 303465799 | Public Utility Holding Company Act | the 1935 act that issued the "death sentence" to pyramiding and giant holding companies in the public utilities industry | |
| 303465800 | Hatch Act | the 1939-1940 act which restricted certain government workers from campaigning and placed limits on campaign spending | |
| 303465801 | Public Works Administration | the agency created in 1933 intended for industrial recovery and unemployment relief whose outstanding achievement was the building of the Grand Coulee Dam | |
| 303465802 | Eleanor Roosevelt | the first lady known for her daily newspaper column, speaking tours, and lectures promoting many causes | |
| 303465803 | Federal Emergency Relief Administration | the 1933 legislation designed to help adult unemployment by giving $3 billion to states for work projects and doles | |
| 303465804 | Schechter "sick chicken" | the Supreme Court case in 1935 that said Congress could not "delegate legislative power" to the executive, thereby ending the National Recovery Administration | |
| 303465805 | 21st | the 1933 Constitutional amendment that ended prohibition | |
| 303465806 | Securities and Exchange Commission | the agency created by Congress in 1934 to protect the public against stock fraud, deception, and insider information | |
| 303465807 | sit-down strike | CIO members used this revolutionary technique in 1936 at the GM plan in Flint to prevent the importation of strikebreakers | |
| 303465808 | Frances Perkins | FDR's secretary of labor was this first women cabinet member | |
| 303465809 | Social Security Act | the 1935 act which created a system of federal-state unemployment insurance and provided for regular monthly payments for retired workers | |
| 303465810 | Committee for Industrial Organizations | in 1935 John L. Lewis formed this group of unskilled workers within the AF of L | |
| 303465811 | Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936 | the 1936 act replacing the AAA which paid farmers to plant soil conserving crops such as soybeans or to let their land fallow | |
| 303465812 | National Labor Relations Board | the government agency created in 1935 which is in charge of supervising labor elections and collective bargaining | |
| 303465813 | John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath | the author and the 1939 novel called the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the Dust Bowl | |
| 303465814 | Civilian Conservation Corps | the agency created in 1933 that provided employment for three million young men. Their projects included reforestation, fighting fires, flood control, and swamp drainage | |
| 303465815 | Tennessee Valley Authority | the agency created in 1933 whose job was putting people to work and reforming the electric power industry in the southeastern part of the US | |
| 303465816 | Dr. Francis E. Townsend | the California physician who attracted a following in the 1930's with a plan promising each person over 60 years old $200 a month | |
| 303465817 | Civil Works Administration | the 1933 agency designed to provide purely temporary jobs during the cruel winter emergency with such make-work tasks as leaf raking | |
| 303465818 | United States Housing Authority | the agency created in 1937 which was designed to lend money to states or communities for low-cost housing construction | |
| 303465819 | Banking Holiday of 1933 | 2 days after inauguration, FDR declared a nation-wide ______ | |
| 303465820 | Works Progress Administration | the $11 billion program authorized by Congress in 1935 to employ people on such useful projects as building public buildings, bridges, and hard-surfaced roads |
