The New Deal by Miranda Castillo

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  1. 3. a major stock market crash that occurred in late October 1929. It started on October 24 and continued until October 29, 1929, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.
  2. 5. in the US, a conservative Southern Democrat, especially a member of Congress.
  3. 7. public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men.
  4. 9. a war between the allies and the Central Powers from 1914 to 1918.
  5. 11. a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water.
  6. 13. considered the worst economic event in world history – began on Thursday, October 24, 1929, with skittish investors trading a record 12.9 million shares.
  7. 15. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 66th Governor of Georgia from 1931 to 1933.
  8. 16. a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses.
  9. 17. an aircraft manufacturer of the United States, a builder of several types of fighter aircraft for World War II.
  10. 18. an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 to 1945.
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  1. 1. a powerful United States Representative from Georgia. Known as "The Father of the Two-Ocean Navy".
  2. 2. an American program to defeat Germany, Japan and Italy by distributing food, oil, and materiel between 1941 and August 1945.
  3. 4. encouraged farmers to join cooperatives to bring electricity to farms.
  4. 6. the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the United States Naval base at Pearl Harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.
  5. 8. a law enacted in 1935 to create a system of transfer payments in which younger, working people support older, retired people.
  6. 10. a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D.
  7. 12. the economic crisis and period of low business activity in the U.S., roughly beginning with the stock-market crash in October, 1929, and continuing through most of the 1930's.
  8. 14. an American Dixiecrat politician who served two terms as the 67th Governor of Georgia from 1933 to 1937, and a third term from 1941 to 1943. Elected to a fourth term in November 1946.