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Election of 1932

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Rep: Herbert Hoover
Dem: FDR

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FDRs 3 Rs

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Relief Recovery Reform

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Emergency Banking Relief Act 1933

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

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Fireside Chats

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Radio, assured people that banks were safe

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Glass Steagall Banking Reform Act

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Made Federal Deposit Insurance Corp

Insured deposits up to $5000

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FDR tries to stimulate inflation

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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.

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Civilian Conservation Corps

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

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FERA

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

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AAA

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Agricultural Adjustment Act

helped farmers meet mortgages

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HOLC

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

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CWA

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

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Father Charles Coughlin

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

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Dr Francis E Towns nd

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

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Senator Huey P Long

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“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

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WPA

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

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Frances Perkins

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Secretary of Labor

first female cabinet member

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Mary McLeod Bethune

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

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Ruth Benedict

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developed culture and personality movement

Wrote “patterns in culture”

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Margaret Mead

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new ideas about gender roles and intergenerational relationships

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NRA

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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)

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PWA

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Public Works Administration
Harold Ickes
Many projects, $4 billion

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Grand Coulee Dam

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

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21st Amendment

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Repealed prohibition

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Agricultural Adjustmen Agency

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

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Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Acts of 1936

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

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Second Agricultural Adjustment Act 1938

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parity payed if farmers restrict acreage

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Dust Bowl

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

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Frazier Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act 1934

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

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Resettlement Administration 1935

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Moved farmers to better lands

planted millions of trees as windbreaks CCC

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Indian Reorganization Act 1934

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

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Truth in Securities Act

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

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SEC

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Securities and Exchange Commission

stock market for trading, not gambling

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Public Utility Company Act 1935

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prohibited excess growth of corporations

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TVA

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

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FHA

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Federal Housing Administration

Small loans for improvement and construction of homes

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USHA

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United States Housing Authority

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

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Social Security Act 1935

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unemployment insurance

retirement comp

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Wagner Act

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

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John Lewis

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Boss of United Mine Workers

Formed Committee for Industrial Organization

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CIO

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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
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Elections 1936

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Rep Landon

Dem FDR

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Alfred Landon

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1936 elections republican
moderate
not entirely opposed to new deal

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20th Amendment

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shortened lame duck period

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Court packing plan

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attack on checks and balances

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

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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