Chapter 22 Flashcards
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Fireside Chat
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- informal radio broadcast in which FDRexplained issues and New Deal programs to averageAmericans
- Done every week (first president to do this)
- Inspired and provided confidence to American people (We have nothing to fear but fear itself)
- The first chat was about the banks during the 4 day bank holiday
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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- FDIC
- governmentagency that insures bank deposits, guaranteeingthat depositors’ money will be safe
- Insured up to 5,000 dollars
- Done to encourage people to deposit, as well as know that it is protected
- Created by the Glass-Steagall law
- SEC made the stock market a safer place for investments
- Stabilized the stock market
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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
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- government agencythat built dams in the Tennessee River valley to controlflooding and generate electric power (first time in history they had electricity and indoor plumbing)
- Creates jobs
- Works project run by the federal government
- Created industry there because of the promise of cheap power
- form of socialism
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
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- New Deal programthat provided more than 2 million young men with relief jobs on environmentalconservation projects, including reforestation and floodcontrol
- Would clean out the areas, do landscaping
- The men who did the work were housed, clothed, and fed (got paid and sent the money home)
- Eventually became more inclusive by extending training to Mexican Americans as well
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John Maynard Keynes
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- Economist
- Deficit spending to get out of debt
- Government can borrow money, but must be able to get rid of deficit (4.4 Billion dollar deficit)
- Pay people to work on the public works project, and money will circulate throughout the system= Pump Priming
- Ex: Public works
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Social Security Act
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- 1935 law that set up a pension systemfor retirees
- established unemployment insurance for workers who lost their jobs
- created insurance for victims of work-related accidents
- also provided aid for poverty-stricken mothers and children,the blind, and the disabled
- Did not apply to domestics or farmers (African Americans were not eligible)
- Widows received less money than widowers
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Court Packing
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- Court can decide if a law can be passed or not
- FDR plan to add up to six new justices tothe nine-member Supreme Court after the Court hadruled that some New Deal legislation was unconstitutional
- The checks and balance system would have been upset if this had been allowed (congress did not approve)
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Mary McLeod Bethune
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- African American women (first AA woman to have to have this high position)
- Director of African American affairs in the federal government
- Member of the Black Cabinet
- Liked the New Deal, “New Day for African Americans”
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New Deal Coalition
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- political force formed by diversegroups who united to support Franklin D. Roosevelt andhis New Deal
- White southern
- White Urbans
- African Americans
- Farmers
- All 4 tended to vote democratic
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Welfare State
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- Pensions, medicare
- Creates a large government, social security
- Government is responsible for its citizens
- government that assumes responsibility forproviding for the welfare of the poor, elderly, sick, andunemployed
- Improvement because most american citizens (excluding veterans) did not recieve benefits from the federal government
- 30% of the government budget today
- Ex of Priming the Pump because money would circulate throughout the system
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Frank Capra
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- Hollywood Director
- American Idealism films
- Characters were everyday people struggling w/ hardships
- Mr. Smith goes to Washington
- Jimmy Stewart plays a man chosen to be a senator
- Finds that politics are corrupt, fights back
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John Steinbeck
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- American author
- Wrote about hardships in America (The Dust Bowl)
- Wrote Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men
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Lillian Hellman
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- Playwright
- New Orleans native
- Plays: “The Children’s Hour”, “The Little Foxes”, and “Watch on the Rhine”
- Creates female heroines
- Began a movement in society where women were far more relevant, became more equal
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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- Ran 4 consecutive terms (1933-1945)
- Fireside Chats
- Guiding USA through WWII and Great Depression
- Developed the Polio virus (infantile Paralysis) from slipping off his boat into the Atlantic Ocean (wheel chair)
- Ran during the 1932 election as a democrat (won)
- Served as Woodrow Wilson’s Assistant Secretary of the Navy
- 1920 election: Democratic vice president nominee
- 1928: Elected governor of New York
- Created the “New Deal”/ Modern Welfare State
- Died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1945
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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- Distant cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, got married
- Became deeply involved in public affairs
- Encouraged FDR to make a political comeback
- Served as FDR’s eyes and ears, interacting with Americans on his behalf
- When the Bonus Army marched on Washington, she sang with the Veterans and made them feel like the government cared
