Chapter 12- Roosevelt And The New Deal Flashcards
Polio
Paralyzingly disease
No cure
President Roosevelt caught the disease but didn’t stop him from becoming the president
New deal
Roosevelt’s policies for ending the depression
Apparent
Noticeable
Gold standard
Reducing the value of the standard dollar to fight the depression
Bank holidays
Closing the remaining banks before bank runs could put them out of business
In 38 states governors declared this
Ideology
A clear idea
Hundred days
Between march 9 and June 16
Congress passed 15 major acts to resolve the economic crisis setting a pace for the new legislation
Fireside chats
Direct talks in which Roosevelt leg the American people know what he was trying to accomplish
Civilian conservation corps (CCC)
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
Deficit spending
Abandoning a balanced budget and borrowing money
American liberty league
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
Benefits
Things that made things better
Made long popular enabling him to build a powerful but corrupt political machine
Works progress administration
Headed by Harry Hopkins
Largest build works program of the new deal
Between 1935-1941 it spent $11 billion
Financed
To pay for by the gov
National labor relations board
Organized factory elections by the se ret ballot to determine whether workers wanted a union
Sit down strike
Employees stopped work inside the factory and refused to leave prevented from sending in replacement workers
Congress of industrial organizations
Tipped from roughly 3 million in 1933 to about 9 million in 1939
Social security act
Provide some sense of safety to those who were elderly And with out a job
France’s Perkins
Was a secretary of labor who appointed many other women to lower level posts
Court packin
Was Roosevelt’s first serious political mistake
Created the impression the the president was trying to undermine the courts independence
Recovery
Restoration or return to any former and better state and condition
Henry morgenthau
FAvored balancing the budget and cutting spending
John Maynard Keynes
In 1936 published a book arguing the government should spend heavily in a recession
Mediate
To settle disputes strikes etc as an intermediary between parties or reconcile
