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Polio

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Paralyzingly disease
No cure
President Roosevelt caught the disease but didn’t stop him from becoming the president

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New deal

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Roosevelt’s policies for ending the depression

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Apparent

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Noticeable

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Gold standard

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Reducing the value of the standard dollar to fight the depression

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Bank holidays

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Closing the remaining banks before bank runs could put them out of business
In 38 states governors declared this

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Ideology

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A clear idea

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Hundred days

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Between march 9 and June 16

Congress passed 15 major acts to resolve the economic crisis setting a pace for the new legislation

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Fireside chats

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Direct talks in which Roosevelt leg the American people know what he was trying to accomplish

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Civilian conservation corps (CCC)

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Highly praised new deal work
Offered work to 18-25 years
Work under the direction of forestry service planting trees fighting forest fires building reservoirs

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Deficit spending

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Abandoning a balanced budget and borrowing money

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American liberty league

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Business leaders and anti-new deal politicians from both parties joined
Purpose was to organized opposition to the new deal and teach the necessity o respect for the rights of person and property

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Benefits

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Things that made things better

Made long popular enabling him to build a powerful but corrupt political machine

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Works progress administration

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Headed by Harry Hopkins
Largest build works program of the new deal
Between 1935-1941 it spent $11 billion

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Financed

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To pay for by the gov

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National labor relations board

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Organized factory elections by the se ret ballot to determine whether workers wanted a union

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Sit down strike

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Employees stopped work inside the factory and refused to leave prevented from sending in replacement workers

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Congress of industrial organizations

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Tipped from roughly 3 million in 1933 to about 9 million in 1939

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Social security act

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Provide some sense of safety to those who were elderly And with out a job

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France’s Perkins

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Was a secretary of labor who appointed many other women to lower level posts

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Court packin

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Was Roosevelt’s first serious political mistake

Created the impression the the president was trying to undermine the courts independence

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Recovery

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Restoration or return to any former and better state and condition

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Henry morgenthau

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FAvored balancing the budget and cutting spending

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John Maynard Keynes

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In 1936 published a book arguing the government should spend heavily in a recession

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Mediate

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To settle disputes strikes etc as an intermediary between parties or reconcile

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Broker state

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The government works out conflicts among different interests

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Safety net

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We’re Americans safeguards and relieve programs that protected them against economic disaster