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- Back to Africa" movement•Introduced concept of black nationalism
- Name for the democrats during the roaring twenties
- FDR used his great skill as a communicator to calm the public through his radio addresses
- those who supported FDR- Labor, white, southern, minorities, and the poor
- FDR promised to put Americans back to work, and therefore Americans elected him in a landslide victory.
- National Labor Relations Act provided a framework for
- Although there were quotas put in place by the Immigration Acts of the 1920s, these hadn't applied to those entering from
- a plan that would allow FDR to appoint six new justices to the Supreme Court.
- banks could be inspected and the public would have more confidence in them
- With the ground cover gone and the soil completely dried out, the heavy winds of the Great Plains carried soil across hundreds of miles.
- The court ruled that even a national crisis didn't give the President more power than the Constitution allows.
- What were groups of homeless people in the Great Depression called
- Social reformer who pushed FDR to appoint women
- gave radio addresses asking for nationalization of banks and utilities. He was also violently anti-Semitic (anti-Jewish) and the Catholic Church shut him down
- Who was a part of economic nationalism in the 20s
- cardboard patches used to cover holes in shoes
- FDR changed that, making American currency...
- Many moved west to California. Over 1 million farmers were driven from their lands by the Dust Bowl.
- Did not support anti-lynching legislationFearful of losing white, southern vote
- provided workers with unemployment insurance, old age pensions, and insurance in case of early death.