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- 1. a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- 4. President of the United States; elected four times; instituted New Deal to counter the Great Depression and led country during World War II
- 6. of a series of radio broadcasts made by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the nation, beginning in 1933.
- 8. 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
- 10. political leader of the twentieth century, who was president from 1929 to 1933.
- 12. Flying mammal
- 14. shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.
- 15. United States law which sets out various labor regulations regarding interstate commerce employment, including minimum wages, requirements for overtime pay and limitations on child labor.
- 18. paper money made legal tender by a government decree.
- 19. Man's best friend
- 20. an act passed by the United States Congress in March 1933 in an attempt to stabilize the banking system.
- 22. the U.S. corporation insuring deposits in the United States against bank failure. The FDIC was created in 1933 to maintain public confidence and encourage stability in the financial system through the promotion of sound banking practices.
- 23. on Washington, in full March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, political demonstration held in Washington, D.C., in 1963 by civil rights leaders to protest racial discrimination and to show support for major civil rights legislation that was pending in Congress.
- 25. 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
- 26. is a U.S. government agency that oversees securities transactions, activities of financial professionals and mutual fund trading to prevent fraud and intentional deception.
- 27. law enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to create a system of transfer payments in which younger, working people support older, retired people.
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- 2. 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.
- 3. a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses.
- 5. Large marsupial
- 7. Flying mammal
- 9. company that directly or indirectly owns, controls, or holds, with power to vote, 10 percent or more of the outstanding voting securities of a public-utility company or of a holding company of any public-utility company
- 11. Man's best friend
- 13. Likes to chase mice
- 16. amendment to the U.S. Constitution, 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.
- 17. Has a trunk
- 21. system by which the value of a currency was defined in terms of gold, for which the currency could be exchanged. The gold standard was generally abandoned in the Depression of the 1930s.
- 24. Likes to chase mice