23.3 Great Depression and New Deal

Question 1

Francis Townsend

Answer 1

Argued for national old-age pension, becoming Social Security

Question 2

Father Charles Coughlin

Answer 2

Criticized New Deal from a nationalist and antisemitic perspective, FDR too friendly with “Jewish bankers” and needed a more agressive action

Question 3

Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

Answer 3

Organized labor, increasing unionization rates. Was under protections of Wagner Act

Question 4

Social Secuirty Act

Answer 4

Created old-age pension, unemployment insurance, and assistance to poor children and elderly from payroll
- signature piece of Roosevelt’s 2nd New Deal

Question 5

“court packing”

Answer 5

An attempt to appoint up to six new justices who would be friendly to his interests

Question 6

Roosevelt Recession

Answer 6

Sparked after FDR cut spendings, believing worse of Depression was over
- allowed for significant gains by conservative coalition of souther Democrats and Midwestern Republicans

Question 7

Keynesian Countercyclical spending

Answer 7

Reversed Roosevelt Recession after the resumption of this (pulling country out of recession)
This measure was advocated by economist John Maynard Keynes to combat the Great Depression