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HY 121-Chapter 21New Deal - correct answer ✔✔Franklin D. Roosevelt's campaign promise, in his speech to the
Democratic National Convention of 1932, to combat the Great Depression with a "new deal for the
American people"; the phrase became a catchword for his ambitious plan of economic programs.
Emergency Banking Act - correct answer ✔✔Passed in 1933, the First New Deal measure that provided
for reopening the banks under strict conditions and took the United States off the gold standard.
Hundred Days - correct answer ✔✔Extraordinarily productive first three months of President Franklin D.
Roosevelt's administration in which a special session of Congress enacted fifteen of his New Deal
proposals.
National Industrial Recovery Act - correct answer ✔✔1933 law passed on the last of the Hundred Days; it
created public-works jobs through the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and established a system
of self-regulation for industry through the National Recovery Administration, which was ruled
unconstitutional in 1935
National Recovery Administration (NRA) - correct answer ✔✔Controversial federal agency created in
1933 that brought together business and labor leaders to create "codes of fair competition" and "fair
labor" policies, including a national minimum wage.
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) - correct answer ✔✔1933 New Deal public work relief program that
provided outdoor manual work for unemployed men, rebuilding infrastructure and implementing
conservation programs. The program cut the unemployment rate, particularly among young men
Public Works Administration - correct answer ✔✔A New Deal agency that contracted with private
construction companies to build roads, bridges, schools, hospitals, and other public facilities.
Tennessee Valley Authority - correct answer ✔✔Administrative body created in 1933 to control flooding
in the Tennessee River valley, provide work for the region's unemployed, and produce inexpensive
electric power for the region.
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