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Great Depression

The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s

Group of expert policy advisers who worked with FDR in the 1930s to end the Great Depression

Refers to the special session of Congress called by Roosevelt to launch his New Deal programs. Lasted about 3 months

Eleanor Roosevelt

She helped shape the social programs known as the New Deal and was the voice of FDR. Also, she was a strong advocater for the poor, women's rights, racial equality, and world peace.

Emergency Banking Relief Act

1933; Gave the President power over the banking system and set up a system by which banks would be reorganized or reopened

Roosevelt, the President of the United States during the Depression and WWII. He instituted the New Deal. Served from 1933 to 1945, he was the only president in U.S. history to be elected to four terms

A series of programs and policies created by Franklin D. Roosevelt to provide relief, recovery, and reform to the economy during the Great Depression.

An area of the United States, the Great Plains, that suffered a severe drought during the 1930s, which resulted in major dust storms, the soil turned to dust and was blown away

An organized system for buying and selling shares in corporations

Paying a fraction of the stock price and borrowing the rest from brokers

Failed to meet loan payments

What Roosevelt called his weekly radio program where he talked to the American people about his efforts to fix the economy

Established to protect people's right to set up unions

Migrant Workers

People who travel from place to place where extra work is needed to cultivate or harvest crops, like after drought, people from dust bowl moved to West coast

What Roosevelt's New Deal brought to victims of the Great Depression