Chapter 12- Roosevelt And The New Deal

Question 1

Polio

Answer 1

Paralyzingly disease
No cure
President Roosevelt caught the disease but didn’t stop him from becoming the president

Question 2

New deal

Answer 2

Roosevelt’s policies for ending the depression

Question 3

Apparent

Answer 3

Noticeable

Question 4

Gold standard

Answer 4

Reducing the value of the standard dollar to fight the depression

Question 5

Bank holidays

Answer 5

Closing the remaining banks before bank runs could put them out of business
In 38 states governors declared this

Question 6

Ideology

Answer 6

A clear idea

Question 7

Hundred days

Answer 7

Between march 9 and June 16

Congress passed 15 major acts to resolve the economic crisis setting a pace for the new legislation

Question 8

Fireside chats

Answer 8

Direct talks in which Roosevelt leg the American people know what he was trying to accomplish

Question 9

Civilian conservation corps (CCC)

Answer 9

Highly praised new deal work
Offered work to 18-25 years
Work under the direction of forestry service planting trees fighting forest fires building reservoirs

Question 10

Deficit spending

Answer 10

Abandoning a balanced budget and borrowing money

Question 11

American liberty league

Answer 11

Business leaders and anti-new deal politicians from both parties joined
Purpose was to organized opposition to the new deal and teach the necessity o respect for the rights of person and property

Question 12

Benefits

Answer 12

Things that made things better

Made long popular enabling him to build a powerful but corrupt political machine

Question 13

Works progress administration

Answer 13

Headed by Harry Hopkins
Largest build works program of the new deal
Between 1935-1941 it spent $11 billion

Question 14

Financed

Answer 14

To pay for by the gov

Question 15

National labor relations board

Answer 15

Organized factory elections by the se ret ballot to determine whether workers wanted a union

Question 16

Sit down strike

Answer 16

Employees stopped work inside the factory and refused to leave prevented from sending in replacement workers

Question 17

Congress of industrial organizations

Answer 17

Tipped from roughly 3 million in 1933 to about 9 million in 1939

Question 18

Social security act

Answer 18

Provide some sense of safety to those who were elderly And with out a job

Question 19

France’s Perkins

Answer 19

Was a secretary of labor who appointed many other women to lower level posts

Question 20

Court packin

Answer 20

Was Roosevelt’s first serious political mistake

Created the impression the the president was trying to undermine the courts independence

Question 21

Recovery

Answer 21

Restoration or return to any former and better state and condition

Question 22

Henry morgenthau

Answer 22

FAvored balancing the budget and cutting spending

Question 23

John Maynard Keynes

Answer 23

In 1936 published a book arguing the government should spend heavily in a recession

Question 24

Mediate

Answer 24

To settle disputes strikes etc as an intermediary between parties or reconcile

Question 25

Broker state

Answer 25

The government works out conflicts among different interests

Question 26

Safety net

Answer 26

We’re Americans safeguards and relieve programs that protected them against economic disaster