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hired workers directly, including thousands of women, to build or improve airports, roads, and playgrounds
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Civil Works Administration
Wagner Act
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caused industrial production to fall and was declared unconstitutional in 1935
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Securities Act of 1933
National Recovery Administration
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hired workers directly, including thousands of women, to build or improve airports, roads, and playgrounds
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caused industrial production to fall and was declared unconstitutional in 1935
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organized secret ballots at factories to see if workers wanted unions
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required companies that sell stocks and bonds to provide complete and truthful information to investors
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awarded contracts to construction companies to build highways, dams, schools, and other facilities
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guaranteed workers the right to organize unions and bargain collectively
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prohibited commercial banks from speculating on the stock market
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offered unemployed young men work planting trees, fighting forest fires, and building reservoirs
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sponsored the Federal Number One program for artists, musicians, theater people, and writers
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covered the money that people save in banks against loss
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President Franklin Roosevelt entered office with no clear agenda or strong political ideology, but his administration favored government
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How was the ongoing African American migration affected by the New Deal?
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To fight the Depression, the first thing President Roosevelt set out to do was to
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By 1934 Senator Huey Long of Louisiana began criticizing the New Deal from the left and calling for
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President Roosevelt launched the bold new programs that came to be known as the Second New Deal primarily because
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The Social Security Act established the principle that the federal government should be responsible for
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The New Deal helped establish a new voting coalition for President Roosevelt and the Democratic Party by
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President Roosevelt’s “court-packing plan” was a serious mistake because
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President Roosevelt triggered a new economic downturn in 1937 by
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In taking on a mediating role among competing economic interests—such as business leaders, farmers, workers, and homeowners—the New Deal established what some have called
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Describe Franklin Roosevelt’s personality and approach to the nation’s problems as they are expressed in the excerpt above.
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Explain how the Social Security system described in the excerpt initially worked, who benefited from it, and who did not.