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- 5. inconvertible paper money made legal tender by a government decree.
- 8. also known as the Wheeler-Rayburn Act, was a law that was passed by the United States Congress to facilitate regulation of electric utilities, by either limiting their operations to a single state, and thus subjecting them to effective state regulation, or forcing divestitures so that each became a single integrated system serving a limited geographic area.
- 10. The longest-serving U.S. President
- 11. the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.
- 12. 28 evening radio addresses given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944
- 15. a monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is based on a fixed quantity of gold.
- 19. establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and youth employment standards affecting employees in the private sector and in Federal, State, and local governments.
- 21. a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter on May 18, 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley
- 22. a series of federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted in the United States during the 1930s in response to the Great Depression.
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- 1. established a system of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped.
- 2. the purchase of an asset by paying the margin and borrowing the balance from a bank or broker.
- 3. ratified in 1951, limiting presidential terms to two for any one person, or to one elected term if the person has completed more than two years of another's term.
- 4. an act passed by the United States Congress in March 1933 in an attempt to stabilize the banking system.
- 6. a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that invalidated regulations of the poultry industry according to the nondelegation doctrine and as an invalid use of Congress' power under the commerce clause.
- 7. a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States of America.
- 9. a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- 12. created in 1933 to maintain public confidence and encourage stability in the financial system through the promotion of sound banking practice
- 13. a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried, men from relief families as part of the New Deal.
- 14. Persuaded Congress to approve the early payment to bonuses due to World War I
- 16. a U.S. government agency that oversees securities transactions, activities of financial professionals and mutual fund trading to prevent fraud and intentional deception.
- 17. an area of Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern Texas affected by severe soil erosion (caused by windstorms) in the early 1930s, which obliged many people to move.
- 18. an American engineer, businessman, and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression.
- 20. a federal law passed in 1933 as part of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal. The law offered farmers subsidies in exchange for limiting their production of certain crops. The subsidies were meant to limit overproduction so that crop prices could increase.