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The depression affected the writers, artists and ________ as hard as the blue- collar workers.
Wagner Act
The ________ made the union organization and the moribund labor movement much easier.
American communities
The devastation wrought by the depression in ________ was documented by a vast number of artists, novelists, journalists and photographers in the 1930s.
African Americans
________ suffered excessively during the Great Depression long near the bottom of America's economic ladder.
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.
Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
First ________, a strong politician, was the center of the women's network and its lead in the fight for liberal causes.
southern Great Plains
The ________ in the mid- 1930s experienced an ecological and economic disaster of unprecedented proportions.
Bonus Army
The "________ "also started descending in Washington, DC in the spring of 1932.
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.
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.
Indians
________ were the poorest people in the nation with a child mortality rate twice as high as the white population.
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.
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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