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- The president is authorized to appoint to t the supreme Court an additional justice for each current justice who was older than a certain age.
- could help each industry set codes for wages, hours of work, labels of production, and prices of finished goods. It gave workers the right to organize and bargain collectively.
- insuring banks for home building and loans. Gave many their first chance to buy a home. Did not provide loans to African Americans
- Provided loans to sharecroppers, tenants, and small farmers. It established federal camps where migrant workers could find decent housing.
- Authorized government to examine the finances of banks closed by bank holiday and reopen those that were found.
- Provided low-interest loans and mortgages to prevent foreclosures on the property of farmers.
- Huge experiment in regional development and public planning. As a government corporation, it hired thousands of people in one of the nation’s poorest regions, the Tennessee Vally, to build dams, operate electric power plants, control flooding, and erosion, and manufacture fertilizer.
- Restricted the gold standard to international transactions, and Americans could no longer exchange their dollars for gold.
- Allotted money to state and local governments for building roads, bridges, dams, and other public works
- The colonists met at the _______________ to find a solution to the conflicts with Great Brittan
- True or False: The Sons of the Liberty were a group of patriots
- The colonists sent _________ Petition to King George to try make peace.
- Why was the Declaration of Independence written? Where did Thomas Jefferson say the power to rule comes from? Why wasn't the original draft accepted by all the colonies?
- True or False: After the battles of Lexington and Concord, all the colonists wanted to go to war.
- Process of charging a public official for wrongdoing
- Republican presidential candidate who won the election of 1876
- By how many votes did President Johnson miss being impeached?
- Northerners who went south for political and economic gain
- The Freedman's Bureau provided food, clothing, shelter, and schooling for
- What former confederate state wasn't part of the military zones