Chapter 32

Question 1

Election of 1932

Answer 1

Rep: Herbert Hoover
Dem: FDR

Question 2

FDRs 3 Rs

Answer 2

Relief Recovery Reform

Question 3

Emergency Banking Relief Act 1933

Answer 3

Gave the president the power to regulate banking transactions and foreign exchange to reopen solvent banks

Question 4

Fireside Chats

Answer 4

Radio, assured people that banks were safe

Question 5

Glass Steagall Banking Reform Act

Answer 5

Made Federal Deposit Insurance Corp

Insured deposits up to $5000

Question 6

FDR tries to stimulate inflation

Answer 6

Ordered private holdings of gold to be surrendered to the treasury in exchange for paper currency. Took nation off of gold standard. Treasury purchased gold at increasing prices.

Question 7

Civilian Conservation Corps

Answer 7

Put young men to work outdoors. Sent money home to family.

Question 8

FERA

Answer 8

Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Headed by Harry Hopkins. $3 billion for dole payments or wages on works projects

Question 9

AAA

Answer 9

Agricultural Adjustment Act

helped farmers meet mortgages

Question 10

HOLC

Answer 10

Home owners loan corporation
Helped refinance mortgages on nonfarm homes
Helped increase Democratic popularity in middle class

Question 11

CWA

Answer 11

Civil Works Administration
Provided temporary jobs during the winter (leafraking, etc)
Harry Hopkins, branch of FERA

Question 12

Father Charles Coughlin

Answer 12

Catholic priest in Michigan. broadcasted on radio antisemitic, fascist, and demagogic ideals for “social justice”. silenced in 1942

Question 13

Dr Francis E Towns nd

Answer 13

Promoting sed everyone over 60 $200 a month. Retired California physician

Question 14

Senator Huey P Long

Answer 14

“King Fish”
Publicized a “share our wealth program” to make “every man a king”
_Every family would recieve house,car,radio, and $5000 at the expense of rich
assassinated

Question 15

WPA

Answer 15

Workers Progress Administration
Created Useful works projects. (buildings, bridges, roads)
Created Federal Art Project
Harry Hopkins

Question 16

Frances Perkins

Answer 16

Secretary of Labor

first female cabinet member

Question 17

Mary McLeod Bethune

Answer 17

Director of the Office of Minority Affairs in the National Youth Administration
Highest rakning African American under FDR

Question 18

Ruth Benedict

Answer 18

developed culture and personality movement

Wrote “patterns in culture”

Question 19

Margaret Mead

Answer 19

new ideas about gender roles and intergenerational relationships

Question 20

NRA

Answer 20

National Recovery Administration
consisted of all of the three Rs
reduced ours of labor so more people could work
Maximum hours and minimum wages, restricted child labor
Forbid anti union contracts (yellow dog)

Question 21

PWA

Answer 21

Public Works Administration
Harold Ickes
Many projects, $4 billion

Question 22

Grand Coulee Dam

Answer 22

part of PWA.
irrigated farms in West (but govt trying to reduce surplus)
Created power when there wasnt much demand

Question 23

21st Amendment

Answer 23

Repealed prohibition

Question 24

Agricultural Adjustmen Agency

Answer 24

raise crop prices with artificial scarcity
payed farmers not to farm
seen as wasteful
Eventually the SC ruled unconstitutional the regulatory taxation provisions

Question 25

Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Acts of 1936

Answer 25

farmers elligible for parity if followed guidlines to reduce erosion and plant soil saving crops

Question 26

Second Agricultural Adjustment Act 1938

Answer 26

parity payed if farmers restrict acreage

Question 27

Dust Bowl

Answer 27

drought in Freat Plains, dusty topsoil from shallow cultivation and me hanics

Question 28

Frazier Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act 1934

Answer 28

allowed suspension of mortgage foreclosures for 5 years
voided
grace period changed to 3 years

Question 29

Resettlement Administration 1935

Answer 29

Moved farmers to better lands

planted millions of trees as windbreaks CCC

Question 30

Indian Reorganization Act 1934

Answer 30

John Collier: Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Encouraged tribes to preserve native ways
Stopped loss of land
77 refused

Question 31

Truth in Securities Act

Answer 31

required promoters to transmit to investors sworn information regarding the soundness of their stocks and bonds

Question 32

SEC

Answer 32

Securities and Exchange Commission

stock market for trading, not gambling

Question 33

Public Utility Company Act 1935

Answer 33

prohibited excess growth of corporations

Question 34

TVA

Answer 34

Tennessee Valley Authority
Sen Norris from Nebraska
Built dams for work, power, irrigation

Question 35

FHA

Answer 35

Federal Housing Administration

Small loans for improvement and construction of homes

Question 36

USHA

Answer 36

United States Housing Authority

lent money to states for low cost housing fell short of needs

Question 37

Social Security Act 1935

Answer 37

unemployment insurance

retirement comp

Question 38

Wagner Act

Answer 38

National Labor Relations Act
Protected unions after NRA died
Created National Labor Relations Board
unions and collective bargaining legal

Question 39

John Lewis

Answer 39

Boss of United Mine Workers

Formed Committee for Industrial Organization

Question 40

CIO

Answer 40

Committee for Industrial Organization
fof skilled workers of AFoL
used sit down strikes in auto industry
Won general motors and US Steel Co
Brokefrom AFoL in 1938 and became Congess of industrial organization

Question 41

Elections 1936

Answer 41

Rep Landon

Dem FDR

Question 42

Alfred Landon

Answer 42

1936 elections republican
moderate
not entirely opposed to new deal

Question 43

20th Amendment

Answer 43

shortened lame duck period

Question 44

Court packing plan

Answer 44

attack on checks and balances

Supreme court became more liberal when ekders retired due to full pay during retirement of officials over 70

Question 45

Eleanor Roosevelt

Answer 45

womens rights activist. Womens trade union, worked in settlement houses