Brain Trust- Made up of young university professors who advised President Franklin D. Roosevelt and helped with the policies of the New Deal.
New Deal- The economic and political policies of FDR to solve the problems of the Great Depression.
Hundred Days- Where an unprecedented number of reform bills were passed in the first hundred days of FDR.
Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act- Insured individual bank deposits and ended unstable banking.
Civilian Conversation Corps (CCC)- Hired young unemployed men to improve the rural environment by planting trees, becoming fire-fighters and such.
National Recovery Administration (NRA)- Designed to assist industry, labor and the unemployed by allowing "fair competition."
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)- Designed to raise agricultural prices by paying farmers not to farm.
Dust Bowl- A disaster made up of drought and dust storms.
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)- Brought cheap electric power, full employment and such to the Tennessee Valley.
Social Security Act- Provided for the unemployment and old-age insurance financed by a payroll tax on employers and employees.
Wagner Act- Protected the right of labor to organize in unions and bargain collectively with employers.
Fair Labor Standards Act- Regulated minimum wages and maximum hours for workers and outlawed labor by children under the age of 16.
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)- Organized unskilled industrial workers regardless of their particular economic sector or craft.
Court-packing plan- FDR's scheme into adding a new justice to the Supreme Court for every member that was over 70 and did not retire.
Keynesianism- Economic theory that central banks should adjust interest rates and governments should use deficit spending.