Chapter 24 test Flashcards
Bank holiday
Designed to stop massive withdrawals
FDIC
Each bank deposit up to $2,500 was insured
The New Deal Program that was ruled unconstitutional was
The National Recovery Act
Frances Perkins
Implemented New Deal programs as a secretary of labor
Harry Hopkins
Relief administrator who was one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s most trusted advisors
Critics of the New Deal asserted
- Relief efforts didn’t go far enough
- Costs were too high
- The government was overstepping its bounds
Second New Deal
Increased farm income and aided tenant farmers
Crucial to Roosevelt’s election victory in 1936 was
The support of African Americans
Roosevelt attempted to gain support of the Supreme Court by
Replacing all justices over 70 years old
The Wagner-Connery Act
Protected laborers’ rights to organize and to bargain
The New Deal, discrimination against African Americans took form of
Segregation and lower wages
Interior Secretary Harold Ickes appointed
Several African Americans as advisers
Marian Anderson
Prohibited from preforming at Constitution Hall
The Indian Reorganization Act
Reversed the Dawes Act and tried to revive tribal rule
Okies
Nickname for migrant workers from the Dust Bowl region
Because of the Dust Bowl
Tenant farmers left their land and headed west
Federal Project No.1
Program that hired unemployed writers and artists
John Steinbeck
Portrayed migrant life during the depression in his novel The Grapes of Wrath
Zora Neal Hurston wrote about
Rural African American women
Aaron Copland
Used American folk themes in composing music
A group of artists knows as regionalists included
Anna “Grandma” Moses
