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- 2. Adjustment Administration - brought relief to farmers by paying them to curtail production, reducing surpluses, and raising prices for agricultural products.
- 5. Labor Relations Board - an independent federal agency that protects the rights of private sector employees to join together, with or without a union, to improve their wages and working conditions.
- 8. spending - the amount by which spending exceeds revenue over a particular period of time
- 12. chat - a series of evening radio addresses given by Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States
- 13. Act - required companies that sold stocks and bonds to provide complete and truthful information to investors.
- 17. Liberty League - an American political organization formed in 1934, primarily of wealthy business elites and prominent political figures
- 18. - clearly visible or understood; obvious.
- 20. state - the federal government after the New Deal that describes how the federal government mediates between various interest groups
- 21. Standard - a monetary system where a country's currency or paper money has a value directly linked to gold.
- 24. - a central or primary rule or principle on which something is based.
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- 1. conservation corps - a voluntary public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men
- 3. Securities and Exchange Commission - protects investors, promotes fairness in the securities markets, and shares information about companies and investment professionals
- 4. Progress Administration - an American New Deal agency, employing millions of men to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.
- 6. Works Administration - a short-lived job creation program established by the New Deal during the Great Depression in the United States to rapidly create mostly manual-labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers.
- 7. Deposit Insurance Corporation - is an independent agency created by the Congress to maintain stability and public confidence in the nation's financial system.
- 9. arbitration - is a means of resolving a dispute that is private, less formal, less costly and less time-consuming than traditional litigation.
- 10. Deal - a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 11. Days - With the help of this team, the new president began to send bill after bill to Congress. Between March 9 and June 16, 1933
- 14. Security Act - 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.
- 15. Industrial Recovery Act - suspended the antitrust laws and allowed business, labor, and government to cooperate in setting up voluntary rules for each industry
- 16. net - a safeguard against possible hardship
- 18. Adjustment Act - Roosevelt asked Congress to pass was based on a simple idea— that prices for farm goods were low because farmers grew too much food.
- 19. - a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economic or political theory and policy.
- 22. Strike - usually employed at factories or other centralized locations, take unauthorized or illegal possession of the workplace by "sitting down" at their stations
- 23. Holiday - refers to the fact that banking institutions typically close for business on such holidays.