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- The great shift to a society that relied on machines to make and do things is known as the________________________________________________.
- New ___________________also changed how people traveled and how they sent messages over long distances
- A man by the name of _____________, who had worked in a British factory with water-powered machines, moved to the united states and brought those secrets with him
- The Industrial Revolution began in __________
- What New Deal Agency has...- federal-state unemployment insurance - specific categories of retirees received monthly payments - financed by payroll taxes on employers and employees- help for blind, handicapped, delinquent children and other dependents
- What New Deal Agency has...- passed partly to stop criticism - $11 billion spent on buildings, bridges, roads, and public art- 9 million people given jobs, not handouts
- Beginning in he late 1700’s machines were invented that could more ____________ do the same work that people were doing by hand
- What New Deal Agency has...-established an insurance program for deposits in many banks - insured individual deposits up to $5,000 (now $100,000)- ended bank failures in US
- A shantytown built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s: ____________
- What New Deal Agency has...-established to police the Stock Exchange- regulated the practice of buying on margin- provided increased government regulation of trading on the stock exchanges
- What New Deal Agency has...- encouraged loans for renovating or building homes- aimed to speed recovery of the housing industry
- What New Deal Agency has...- promoted development projects for the Tennessee River Valley- improve navigation, produce electricity, control floods- critics charged it was "creeping socialism"
- What New Deal Agency has...- long-range recovery through industrial recovery & unemployment relief- $4 billion spent on 34,000 projects- Public buildings, highways, parks, and dams
- Roosevelt's policies for ending the depression:____________________
- During ______________________, FDR began to pass legislation to at least give the US temporary economic stability
- WW1 veterans who marched on Washington asking for help with their financial issues - were removed with tear gas, cavalry, tanks, and troops: ______________________
- The group of academics that developed FDR's economic policy and developed programs to help solve problems associated with the Great Depression: _________________
- What New Deal Agency has...- headed by New York social worker Harry L. Hopkins, friend of FDR- $3 billion granted to states for dole (welfare) payments or wages on work projects
- What New Deal Agency has...- farmers were to receive "parity [equal] prices" with those received during 1909 - 1914- would create "artificial scarcity" by paying farmers to reduce crop acreage - money to pay farmers raised by taxing processors of farm products (like flour mills)
- What New Deal Agency has...- employment for 3 million young men- recruits sent home $25 of their $30 monthly to parents