Chapter 33

Question 1

Blank check

Answer 1

Referring to permission to use an unlimited amount of money or authority

Question 2

Boondoggle

Answer 2

To engage in trivial or useless work; any enterprise characterized by such work

Question 3

Fascism

Answer 3

A political system or philosophy that advocates a mass based party dictatorship, extreme nationalism, racism, and the glorification of war

Question 4

Collective bargaining

Answer 4

Bargaining between an employer and his or her organized work force over hours, wages and other conditions of employment

Question 5

Court packing plan

Answer 5

Franklin Roosevelt’s politically motivated and ill fated scheme to add a new justice to the supreme me court for every member over seventy who would not retire

Question 6

Keynesianism

Answer 6

An economic theory based on the thoughts of British economist John Maynard Keynes, holding that central banks should adjust interest rates and governments should use deficit spending and tax policies to increase purchasing power and hence prosperity

Question 7

Deficit spending

Answer 7

The spending of public funds beyond the amount of income

Question 8

Huey p long

Answer 8

Governor of Louisiana, part of the us senate, and he was assassinated

Question 9

Father Charles coughlin

Answer 9

He was a priest

Question 10

Eleanor Roosevelt

Answer 10

The face of the new deal, Franklin Roosevelt’s wife, the First Lady

Question 11

Rubber stamp

Answer 11

To approve a plan or law quickly or routinely, without examination