Chapter 33 Vocabulary Flashcards
Blank-check
Referring to permission to use an unlimited amount of money or authority.
Boondoggle
To engage in trivial are useless work; any enterprise characterized by such work.
Facism
A political system or philosophy that advocates a mass-based party dictatorship, extreme nationalism, racism, and the glorification of war.
Collective bargaining
Bargaining between an employer and his or her organized work force over hours, wages, and other conditions of employment.
Court-packing plan
Franklin Roosevelt’s politically motivated and ill-fated scheme to add a new justice to the Supreme Court for every member over seventy who would not retire.
Keynesianism
An economic theory based on the thoughts of British economist John Maynard Keynes, holding that central banks should adjust interest rates and government should use deficit spending and tax policies to increase purchasing power and hence prosperity.
Deficit spending
The spending of public funds be on the amount of income.
Huey P. Long
An American politician who served as the 40th Governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a member of the United States Senate from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. A Democrat, he was an outspoken populist who denounced the rich and the banks and called for “Share our Wealth.” As the political boss of the state he commanded wide networks of supporters and was willing to take forceful action. He established the political prominence of the Long political family. Share Our Wealth Program.
Father Charles Coughlin
A controversial Canadian Roman Catholic priest based in the United States near Detroit at Royal Oak, Michigan’s National Shrine of the Little Flower church. He was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience, as up to thirty million listeners tuned to his weekly broadcasts during the 1930s. He was forced off the air in 1939.
Eleanor Roosevelt
An American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, holding the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s four terms in office, and served as United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952.
Rubber-stamp
To approve a plan or law quickly or routinely, without examination.
