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- In 1800, most Americans were ______________ who grew and produced nearly everything they needed.
- Replacement Soldiers for the North
- Replacement Soldiers for the South
- Who lost public popularity after they tried to pack the court in their favor?
- Who believed in rugged individualism as a way to get out of the Great Depression?
- FDR created a federal law under the new deal that was designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surplus is. The government but life stock for slaughter and paid farmers subsidies not to plant on parts of their land this was known as
- The new deal programs created by FDR and his administration had three distinct categories. They were:
- Created to regulate the stock market, enforce laws against insider trading, and restore trust in the stock market after the great depression
- An example of the psychological stress caused by the great depression was the rise in the number of
- Franklin Roosevelt suffered from the effects of polio that left him unable to walk without braces, and mainly kept him confined to a wheelchair, and most Americans were unaware of his disability
- Who served as the FDR's "eyes and ears" and fight for social justice throughout the United States?
- Herbert Hoover believed it was the responsibility of individuals to work their own way out of trouble, while FDR believed that the federal government's involvement was necessary to help and the hardships of the great depression
- People who fled the dust bowl to migrate to California were known as
- Which of the following new deal programs was most directly responsible for creating new jobs and putting people to work?
- Voluntary public work program where young men planted trees and cleared the trails and parks; They were expected to send money home to their families
- Established a minimum wage, a standardized work week, and overtime pay
- What were homeless communities often called in the early 1930s?
- Which of the following new deal programs provided a pension for retired workers and their spouses and aided people with disabilities, poor mother is with dependent children, and the needy elderly?
- Which of the following new deal programs build dams and provided hydroelectric power to an impoverished region, then went on to become the largest public provider of electricity?
- Who is the newspaper publisher that opposed slavery?