The depression affected the writers, artists and ________ as hard as the blue- collar workers.
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Wagner Act
The ________ made the union organization and the moribund labor movement much easier.
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American communities
The devastation wrought by the depression in ________ was documented by a vast number of artists, novelists, journalists and photographers in the 1930s.
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African Americans
________ suffered excessively during the Great Depression long near the bottom of America's economic ladder.
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group of conservative businessmen
A(n) ________ organized by the American Liberty League and the Pro- Republican journals in 1934 attacked the administration vehemently for what they thought its attack on property rights, the growing welfare state and alleged decline in personal rights.
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Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
First ________, a strong politician, was the center of the women's network and its lead in the fight for liberal causes.
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southern Great Plains
The ________ in the mid- 1930s experienced an ecological and economic disaster of unprecedented proportions.
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Bonus Army
The "________ "also started descending in Washington, DC in the spring of 1932.
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National Labor Relations Act
The ________, often known as the Wagner Act for its main sponsor, Democrat senator Robert F. Wagner of New- York, was passed by Congress in July 1935.
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American workers
The federal government guaranteed for the first time the right of the ________ to join, form, or collectively negotiate for better wages, benefits and working conditions.
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Indians
________ were the poorest people in the nation with a child mortality rate twice as high as the white population.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
________ was founded in 1882 on the vast estate of his aristocratic family in Dutchess County, New York, where he grew up as the only child, safe and confident.
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Emergency Banking Relief Act
The ________ was immediately passed by Congress, giving the President broad discretion over all bank transactions and exchanges.
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