Ch 23 Flashcards
This man was the 32nd president
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, D, 1933-1945
What experience did FDR have?
2 terms as governor of NY
This was FDR’s team of advisors
Brain trust
This was the program designed to end the depression
New Deal
What were the 3 goals of the new deal?
Provide relief for the needy, economic recovery, and financial reform
What was the bank holiday?
Closing the banks from march 5-12 for inspection
This act made the FDIC
Glass-steagall act
This insured bank accounts up to $5000 when it was created
Federal deposit insurance corporation
This provided companies to provide info on all stock offerings
Federal securities act
This regulated the stock market
Securities and exchange commission
What did the 21st amendment do?
Repeal prohibition with money through taxation
This sought to raise crop prices by lowering crop production
Agricultural adjustment act
How did the AAA get going?
Providing money to destroy crops and livestock
What did the Tennessee Vally Authority do?
Renovate dams, construct 20 new dams, create jobs, provide flood control and hydroelectric power
This organization put young men to work building roads and parks and planting trees
CCC
This provided money to construct schools and community buildings
National industrial recovery act
This set price in products and cods of fair competition. It was made by NIRA
NRA
This provided $500 mil of direct relief in grants and work relief programs
Federal emergency relief administration
This is spending more than the government receives in revenue
Deficit spending
How did conservatives feel about the new deal?
They thought it provided too much direct relief and it sought to control business and socialize the economy
What did the Supreme Court do with the new deal?
They found NIRA unconstitutional and the AAA more of a states right thing
This man was a democratic senator from Louisiana who was a critic of the new deal and later assassinated
Huey Long
What was FDR’s second burst if activity?
2nd new deal/2nd first hundred day
This woman was the First Lady/social reformer
Eleanor Roosevelt
This hired people to do unskilled labor
Works Progress Admin
This provided education, jobs, counseling to 2mil young people and needy students
National youth admin
This defined unfair labor practices, settled disputes between employers and employees
Wagner Act/National Labor Relations Act
This set the max work hours in a week and the minimum wage
Fair Labor Standards Act
This was a 3 part aid act
Social security act
What are the 3 parts of social security?
Old age insurance for retirees 65+, unemployment compensation, and money for families with dependent children and the disabled
This paid money to bring electricity to isolated areas
Rural electrification admin
This lady was the first female cabinet member
Frances Perkins (sec. Of labor)
This woman was an educator who was the head of the division of negro affairs
Mary McLeod Bethune
What did Bethune organize?
A “black cabinet” to advise FDR on racial issues
This woman performed at the Lincoln memorial in Easter 1939
Marian Anderson
What racial equality things did FDR not approve of?
An anti lynching law and ending the poll tax
Why were people disqualified from government work programs?
They had no permanent address
This man was know to restore tribal ownership to some reservations
John Collier
What did the Indian reservation act of 1934 do?
Land belonged to tribes and the govt could not take it away, children could attend schools on the reservation, and tribes could elect councils to govern land
This is the alliance of diverse groups dedicated to supporting the Democratic Party in the 30s and 40s
New Deal coalition
What group supported the new deal coalition?
S whites, blacks, women, urban groups, unionized workers
What were women and blacks appointed to in the new deal coalition?
Federal positions and programs
This is a drama about southern plantations during the civil war
Gone with the wind
This was a 1937 Disney animation
Snow White and the 7 dwarfs
How did families pass time?
Radio shows
How did FDR most directly access Americans?
Fireside chats
This man gave a radio broadcast based on the war of the worlds and directed citizen Kane in 1941
Orson Welles
This main was the famous painter of American gothic
Grant Wood
This man wrote songs about depression hardships and hole
Woody Guthrie
What was the grapes of wrath about?
Oakie hardships
How did conservatives criticize the New Deal?
gov’t was too large and too powerful
How did liberals feel about the new deal?
Not enough was done to socialize the economy
What did suporters of the new deal think?
There was a good balance between unregulated capitalism and overregulated socialism
What ended the Great Depression?
WWII Spending
What did FDR expand during the depression?
Power of the federal government and the presidency
What acts were long lasting?
FDIC (Glass Steagall), SEC, Wagner, Social Security
What did the second AAA do?
Make loans available to farmers
What determined the availability of farmer AAA loans?
Surplus and parity price
What is parity price?
The price intended to keep income steady
What standards did the New Deal set?
wages, hours, banning child labor, and collective bargaining
