| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Public Works Administration | provided the unemployed with work in public works |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act | Gave farmers money to reduce crop size to reduce production and bring up the value of crops |
| Securities and Exchange Commission | set up in 1934 to regulate the stock market and to prevent abuses by sellers of stocks and bonds |
| Civilian Conservation Corps | employed young men on outdoor construction work |
| National Recovery Act | Authorized the President to regulate banks, and stimulate the United States economy |
| boondoggling | term for a project that wastes time and money |
| Works Progress Administration | authorized by congress in 1935, spent approx, 11 billion dollars on thousands of public buildings, bridges and roads |
| Glass-Steagall Act | measure that provided FDIC insurance on deposits up to 5,000 dollars |
| Dust Bowl | in late 1933, a prolonged drought that brought up great dust and winds in the Great Plains |
| Schechter case | a Supreme Court case involving alleged NRA code violations by the Schechter brothers, who operated a wholesale poultry business in Brooklyn, NY. The Court ruled unanimously that they were not engaged in interstate commerce |
| the three "R's" | RELIEF, RECOVERY AND REFORM |
| Hundred Days Congress | In 1933, an emergency Congress enacted more than a dozen measures which increased the level of federal involvement in the nation's economic life |
| Brain Trust | Group of expert policy advisers, and intellecutuals who worked with FDR in the 1930s to end the great depression |
| New Deal | The name given to President Roosevelt's programs for getting the United States out of the depression |
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