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National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) 1933
Created National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Administered codes of fair practices for businesses and industry
Declared Unconstitutional in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
Created Public Works Administration (PWA) to provide money for construction or improvement of the infrastructure and public buidlings
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Securities Act 1933
Gave Federal Trade Commission power to supervise new issue of stock
Required statement of financial information to accompany new stock issues
Made Company directors liable-civilly and criminally-for misrepresentation
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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Bought, built, and operated dams
Generated and sold electricity
Plan flood control and reforestation projects
Withdrew poor land from farming
Use of TVA rates as a yardstick to gauge rates charged by private utilities, controversial
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Farm Credit Administration (FCA) 1933
Provided funding for farm mortgages
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Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) 1933
Provided funding for home mortgages
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Securites and Exchange Act 1934
Provided for federal regulation of securites exchanges
Established the Securites and Exchange Commission (SEC)
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Banking Act of 1935
Reorganized the Federal Reserve System to give the Federal Reserve Board control over open-market operations
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Emergency Banking Act 1933
Allowed inspection of bank records to enable financially stable banks to reopen; validated Bank Holiday
Permitted Reconstruction Finance Coorporation (RFC) to buy stocks of banks in trouble, giving the banks an infusion of new capital, "pump priming"
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Glass-Steagall Banking Act 1933
Established Federal Deposit Insurance Coorporation (FDIC) to insure bank deposits
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Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) 1933
Provided work on projects such as building roads and airports, schools and playgrounds, and parks
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) 1933
Provided jobs related to conservation of natural resources to men between 17-25
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Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) 1933
In order to raise prices, limited farm production by paying subsidies to farmers to withhold land from cultivation
Declared unconstitutional in 1936
Replaced with Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act in 1936 and second Agricultural Adjustment Act 1938 to keep surpluses in check and prices of agricultural commodities and farm incomes up
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National Youth Administration (NYA) 1935
Provided work-relief, training, and employment to people between the ages of 16-25 who were not full time students
Provided part-time employment for students to enable them to stay in school
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Social Securities Act of 1935
Established unemployment compensation
Established old-age pension fund
Set up grants to states for care of needy dependent children, the physically disabled and women, and children in poverty
Did not cover all jobs, such as farmers, farm hands, and domestics, excluding 80% of blacks
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Works Progress Administration (WPA) 1935
Provided employment on infrastructure projects, such as dredging rivers and building highways
Created projects for artists, writers, actors, and musicians
(Think Barter Theatre)
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National Labor Relations Act (WAGNER ACT) 1935
Authorized Nation Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to oversee unnion elections and define and prohibit unfair labor practices
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Fair Labor Standards Act *Wages and Hours Act* 1938
Set maximum of 44 hours week and minimum wage for interstate workers
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Marcus Garvey
Leader of the 1920's Back to Africa movement
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A. Mitchell Palmer
Contributed to Red Scare
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Grandma Moses
Anna Moses, folk artist Grandma painter who emphasized nostalgia for a simpler time
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Sinclair Lewis
author of Babbit, Main Street, and other novels critical of the superficiality of American society
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Albert Fall
Corrupt Secretary of Interior who played a large part in the Teapot Dome Scandal
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Term for Hoover's attitude of toughing out the difficult time and pulling yourself up
Rugged Individualism
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Frances Perkins
1st woman in US Cabinet, Secretary of Labor
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Buying stock on credit
Margin
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
caused shift in 1930s towards more optomistic American Literature
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Aimee McPherson
turned fundamentalism into mass entertainment
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H. L. Mencken
Editor of American Murcury, Doing Good is in bad taste
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Emergency Quota Act of 1921
stemmed immigration to 3%
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Immigration Act of 1924
stemmed immigration down to 2%
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Columbian Professor who supported learning by doing
John Dewey
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Attorney of John T. Scopes
William Jennings Bryant
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Prosecution Attorney in Scopes Trial
Clarence Darrow
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Treasury Secretary whose tax policies favored rapid expansion of capital investment
Andrew Mellon
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One of the first advertisers
Bruce Barton
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Fiery feminist and proponent of birth-control
Margaret Sanger
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Harding's Friends
The Ohio Gang
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Secretary of State under Harding
Charles Evans Hughes
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Attorney General under Harding
Attorney General, member of Ohio Gang
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Secretary of Commerce under Harding
Herbert Hoover
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Reversed Muller v Oregon and claimed Women were legal equals to Men
Adkins v Children's Hospital
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Set a 10 year military ship building holiday
Washington Disarmament Conference in 1921-1922
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Pact that deemed any war other than a defensive war wrong
Kellog-Briand Pact
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Agricultural Marketing Act set up what board?
Federal Farm Board which lent out money to farm organizations seeking to buy, sell, and store agricultural surpluses
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Agency Government lending bank designed to provide indirect relief by assisting insurance companies, banks, agricultural organizations, railroads,
Reconstruction Finance Coorporation (RFC)
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Glass-Steagal Banking Reform Act set up
Federal Deposit Insurance Coorporation (FDIC) which insured deposits up to $5,000
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Catholic Priest of Michigan who began broadcasting in 1930
Father Charles Coughlin
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Louisiana Senator who publicized his "Share the Wealth" program which promised to make "Every Man a King"
Huey P. "Kingfish" Long
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Head of the Public Works Administration (PWA)
Harold L. Ickes, former Bull Mooser
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Watchdog administration of Stocks
SEC Securites Exchange Commission
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