exam 2 pt7

Question 1

Did everyone love the new deal?

Answer 1

No

Question 2

Who was the doctor from California who disagreed with the New Deal?

Answer 2

Frances Townsend

Question 3

What was Frances Townsend plan called and what was it?

Answer 3

Townsend Plan/ Government force 65 and older to retire making jobs for the young people. The government give retired people monthly checks of 200 dollars that must be used on the economy.

Question 4

Was the Townsend plan popular? / Who is the father of social security? / What plan is the birth of social security?

Answer 4

yes/ Frances Townsend/ Townsend Plan

Question 5

Who was a senator who lied about socialism and spread lies to become president but was shot and killed by wife before he could run for president?

Answer 5

Huey Long

Question 6

What is the share our wealth plan? / Was he truthful? / What is wrong with this plan?

Answer 6

Redistribute the wealth’s money into society, and every American would receive $2,500 a month to live off. Basically, promoting socialism / He lied. / Not many people are rich during the Great Depression

Question 7

After Huey Long died was there any other big republican contender to go against FDR?

Answer 7

no

Question 8

What did The Second New Deal focus on?

Answer 8

Helping unions be able to be a voice for workers in factories.

Question 9

Who was a friend of FDR and became a labor unionist?

Answer 9

Robert Wagner

Question 10

Why was the Wagner act created? / If any arguments happened which side won?

Answer 10

To help increase the number of supporters for unions. / The strikes won

Question 11

What is it called when the Americans are attracted to the idea of unions as a fighting force for the American worker?

Answer 11

industrial Unionism

Question 12

Who is the leader of the Committee of Industrial Organization (CIO)?

Answer 12

John L. Lewis

Question 13

What are campaigns that try to convince more Americans to join their unions. They had to pay monthly dues for unions. Put together posters and movie reels for Americans to join them called?

Answer 13

Committee on Industrial Organization (CIO)

Question 14

In Detroit, Michigan in the rust belt where 400 labor strikes are made in one year were all promoted by who?

Answer 14

United Auto Workers

Question 15

Workers still show up to work and punch their time clock, but when they go to their machines to work, they sit down and do nothing. What kind of strike is this called? / Did FDR support it?

Answer 15

Sit-Down Strikes/ yes

Question 16

What program did FDR issue but never envisioned to be a permanent welfare program.

Answer 16

Social Security Act

Question 17

Workers’ Progress Administration (WPA) led by who?

Answer 17

Harry Hopkins

Question 18

What is the “Court Packing” Scheme?

Answer 18

FDR wanted to add 5 new justices to the Supreme Court- make it 14. He could appoint 5 democrats to the court system. The Republican party said that he was trying to tip the courts in the Democratics favor. He immediately lost Republican support. Republicans and Democrats turn on FDR. New Deal programs were cut.

Question 19

Our economy slides right back to what it had been in 1929. It dips right back to the Great Depression. It’s like the New Deal never existed. What is this called?

Answer 19

Roosevelt Recession