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1. Great Depression
2. Civilian Conservation Corps
3. Agricultural Adjustment Act
4. Rural Electrificaton
5. Social Security Administration
6. Warm Springs
7. Eugene Talmadge

conservative white supremacist

rovided subsidies (money) to limit production so prices could go up on limited supplies

did not like government intervention

people borrowed more money than they could repay

high tariffs kept countries from buying and selling to each other

provided retirement and unemployment insurance from the federal government

place where president Roosevelt died

made farming easier because of electric water pumps, lights, appliances

initially opposed New Deal programs

longest period of high unemployment and low economic activity

factories and farmers overproduced

referred to as the “Little White House”

provided low interest loans to organizations that would extend power lines to rural areas

place in Georgia visited by president Roosevelt

caused by speculation and the stock market crash

elected as governor of Georgia in the 1930s and 40s

helped with sewer projects, flood control, and recreational facilities

money would come from taxes paid by workers and employers

built roads, parks, trails and planted trees

provided jobs for young single men to preserve natural resources

paid farmers NOT to plant crops on part of their land

a problem with the program was that money went only to landowners not to tenant farmers

the only New Deal program still around today

used as a treatment facility for president Roosevelt’s polio