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| 1263557261 | Great Depression | The nation's worst economic crisis, extending through the 1930s, producing unprecedented bank failures, unemployment, and industrial and agricultural collapse | |
| 1263557262 | Bonus Army | Unemployed veterans of World War I gathering in Washington in 1932 demanding payment of service bonuses not due until 1945 | |
| 1263557263 | New Deal | The economic and political policies of the Roosevelt administration in the 1930s | |
| 1263557264 | Fireside Chat | Speeches broadcast nationally over the radio in which President Franklin D. Roosevelt explained complex issues and programs in plain language, as though his listeners were gathered around the fireside with him | |
| 1263557265 | Emergency Bank Act | 1933 act that gave the President broad discretionary powers over all banking transactions and foreign exchange | |
| 1263557266 | Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) | Federal regional planning agency established to promote conservation, produce electric power, and encourage economic development in seven southern states | |
| 1263557267 | National Industrial Recovery Act | 1933 act that was meant to be a systematic plan for economic recovery | |
| 1263557268 | Social Security Act of 1935 | Act establishing federal old-age pensions and employment insurance | |
| 1263557269 | National Labor Relations Act | Act establishing federal guarantee of right to organize trade unions and collective bargaining | |
| 1263557270 | Congress of Industrial Organizations | An alliance of industrial unions that spurred the 1930s organizational drive among the mass-production industries | |
| 1263557271 | New Deal Coalition | Coalition that included traditional-minded white southern Democrats, big-city political machines, industrial workers of all races, trade unionists, and many Depression-hit farmers | |
| 1263557272 | 1936 Fair Labor Standards Act | Act that established the first federal minimum wage (25 cents an hour) and set a maximum worksheet of fourty-four hours for all employees engaged in interstate commerce |
