Ch. 33

Question 1

blank-check

Answer 1

Permission to use an limited amount of money or authority

Question 2

boondoggle

Answer 2

To engage in trivial or useless work

Question 3

fascism

Answer 3

A political system or philosophy that advocates a mass based dictatorship, extreme nationalism, racism, and glorification of war.

Question 4

collective bargaining

Answer 4

Bargaining with an employer over work hours, wages, and conditions

Question 5

court-packing plan

Answer 5

FDR’s politically motivated and ill fated scheme to add a new justice to the Supreme Court for every member of seventy who would not retire

Question 6

Keynesianism

Answer 6

An economic idea based on the work of British economist John Maynard Keynes which states that central banks should adjust interest rates and government should use deficit deficit spending and tax policies to increase purchase power and hence prosperity

Question 7

deficit spending

Answer 7

Spending more than the budget allows for

Question 8

Huey P. Long

Answer 8

American politician who served as the 40th Governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a US s natio until his assassination in 1935

Question 9

Father Charles Coughlin

Answer 9

A controversial Roman Catholic priest who used radio to reach tens of millions of people. He was a vocal supporter of FDR and the New Deal. However, he later criticized FDR and supported the New Union for Social Justice. He also voiced anti-Semitic values and supported some policies of Hitler and Mussolini.

Question 10

Eleanor Roosevelt

Answer 10

The First Lady and wife of President FDR

Question 11

Rubber stamp

Answer 11

To approve a law quickly, without examination