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Henry Adams U.S History

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Question: Social Security 
Answer: Benefits to retired 

Question: What is "Run on a bank"?
Answer: When people withdraw all their deposits simultaneously because of concern of the bank failing.

Question: Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Answer: Raised tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods

Question: National Recovery Administration 
Answer: The new deal agency established by FDR, to eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry.

Question: Joseph Stalin/Communism 
Answer: A powerful communist leader in the early years of the Soviet Union.

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Question: WHERE IS HOOVER ON THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM?
Answer: HOOVER IS A REPUBLICAN SO ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SPECTRUM

Question: FDR's position on labor unions
Answer: FDR was in favor of labor unions.

Question: Hundred Days
Answer: Many programs through congress

Question: Bank Holiday
Answer: Evaluate banks

Question: Recession of 1937
Answer: An economic downturn that occured during the Great Depression 

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Question: Brain Trust
Answer: FDR's close advisors that helped create the new deal

Question: Public works
Answer: A program that government runs projects

Question: National Industrial Recovery Act
Answer: The president could regulate industry to make the economy better

Question: Republican criticism of New Deal?
Answer: Criticized FDR for spending too much money, they were against it.

Question: Increased Federal Borrowing 
Answer: caused the recession of 1937, government had to cut back on some programs to prevent increase in national debt.

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Question: What is "Share the wealth"
Answer: A economic philosophy started by Huey Long to spread the wealth evenly for Americans.

Question: Capitalism
Answer: An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather by the state.

Question: Eleanor Roosevelt
Answer: She was a First lady that was active and involved

Question: Huey Long
Answer: For "share the wealth"

Question: National Debt
Answer: Is how much the federal government owes.

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Question: What was the cause of the 1937 recession?
Answer: A set back by the increased borrowing by the federal government.

Question: Court Packing
Answer: A move by FDR to increase the size of the supreme court

Question: Relief, Recovery and Reform, FDR
Answer: New Deal

Question: Huey Long
Answer: 40th governor of Louisiana and member of the United States senate. 

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