15.5 Flashcards

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What did Roosevelt want to launch during his 2nd new deal?

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The Third New Deal

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What did FDR not favor and what happened to the economy?

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Deficit spending. The economy improved.

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What did Roosevelt face from congress?

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Rising pressure to scale back New Deal Programs. He did, but the industrial rpdiction dropped again

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What did conservitives, liberal critics, and supporters say of the New Deal?

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Conservitives: That the new deal made the federal gov. too large and too powerful. They believed that it stifled free enterprise and individual initiative

Liberal critics; not enough to socialize the economy. They did not eliminate social and economic inequalities.

Supporters: struck a reasonable balance between the two extremes

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The Roosevelt Administration expanded the power of the government greatly: How?

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It gave the president a more active role in the economy. It did this by infusing the nation’s econ. With many dollars by creating jobs and attempting to regulate supplu demand and by increasing the government’s rolein settling labor and magement disutes

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporatio and Securities and Exchange Commision

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To regulate banking and investment activities.

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What did the federal government have to deeply in -in order to help the depression

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debt

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What were some acts that protected workers rights?

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Wagner Act

Fair Labor Standards Act

National Labor Relations Board -stillecists

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Acts that were involved in Banking?

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Securities and Exchange CommissionL Monitors the stock market

Federal Deposit INsurance Corporation: created by the Glass Steagall Act has helped the bank system by insuring accounts

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Social Security

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The social security Act still provides reassurance to many people

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Farming

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AAA

Loans were made to farmers by the Commodity Credit Corporation: The value of the loans depended on the amount of the surplus and the parity price ( price intended to keep the income of farmers steady)

Set a precedent of aid to farmers

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Environment

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CCC-planted crops trees

Soil Conservation Service: Taught farmers how to conserve the soil through contour planting, terracing an dcrop rotation

Taylor Grazing Act: Help reduce grazing on public lands

Tennessee Valley Authority: made use of natural enrgy

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