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  1. 6. hired a brain trust, came from an upper-crust family, and was a democratic president
  2. 7. A retired physician who had lost his savings in the Great Depression and promoted a plan, popular with senior citizens, to pay every person over sixty years old $200 a month,
  3. 8. the first lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945, during her husbands four terms in office
  4. 9. the economic and political policies of Franklin Roosevelt’s administration in the 1930s called
  5. 11. Specialists in law, economics, and welfare, many of them young university professors, who advised President Franklin D. Roosevelt and helped develop the policies of the New Deal
  6. 14. an American statesman, public administrator, presidential advisor, and a trusted Deputy of FDR
  7. 17. an African-American contralto and one of the most celebrated singers of the twentieth century
  8. 19. act insured the right of private sector employees to organize into trade unions and engage in collective bargaining
  9. 21. an American workers-rights advocate who served as the 4th United States Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945
  10. 22. legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the US
  11. 24. the law that provided for unemployment and old-age insurance financed by a payroll tax on employers and employees Important New Deal labor legislation that regulated minimum wages and maximum hours for workers involved in interstate commerce
  12. 26. Known by its critics as the “National Run Around,” it an early New Deal program designed to assist industry, labor, and the unemployed
  13. 29. first known as the Federal Council of Negro Affairs
  14. 30. nine black teenaged boys accused of rape in Alabama in 1931
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  1. 1. Important New Deal labor legislation that regulated minimum wages and maximum hours for workers involved in interstate commerce
  2. 2. The first ________ days of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration, stretching from March 9 to June 16
  3. 3. A New Deal program designed to raise agricultural prices by paying farmers not to farm
  4. 4. An economic theory based on the thoughts of British economist John Maynard Keynes
  5. 5. a famous priest that promoted pro-facist and antisemitic ways and was a very early suppoter of Franklin Roosevelt
  6. 10. A New Deal–era labor organization that broke away from the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in order to organize unskilled industrial workers regardless of their particular economic sector or craft
  7. 12. One of the most revolutionary of the New Deal public works projects
  8. 13. The highest-ranking African American in the Roosevelt administration
  9. 15. A government program created by Congress to hire young unemployed men to improve the rural, out-of-doors environment
  10. 16. Its major thrusts were to reverse the policy of forced assimilation that flowed from the 1887 Dawes Severalty Act
  11. 18. He was the republican candidate in 1936. This honest and wealthy man from Kansas lost greatly to the Democrat Franklin Roosevelt
  12. 20. Louisiana governor, later U.S. senator, whose anti-New Deal "Share Our Wealth" program promised to make "Every Man a King."
  13. 23. It gave a great boost to labor organizing in the midst of the Great Depression
  14. 25. an American writer and the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature winner "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humor and keen social perception"
  15. 27. a Democratic U.S. Senator from New York from 1927 to 1949 and a strong supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt
  16. 28. the series of a dust storms in the prairies of the US