Forging A New Deal - Reading Quiz Flashcards
Hundred Days
Roosevelt pushed programs after programs to provide relief, create jobs, stimulate economic recovery.
“Improve conditions through Roosevelt programs”
From his inauguration in March to June 1933
New Deal
Relief, recovery, reform to FDRs administration
To help depression
“R.R.R. Help”
Public Works Program
Government-funded projects to build public facilities (help people with jobs).
Civilian Conservation Corps or Acts (CCC)
- FDR’s favorite program.
- Young, unmarried men to work in maintaining forests, beaches, parks.
- Got free rent, food, medical paid, yet only $30 a month.
- CCC.
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
Raise farm prices through govt. financial assistance (AAA).
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Helped farmers and created jobs in one of the country’s least developed regions (TVA).
FDR’s Administration. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- First to hire women in cabinet (Perkins)
- More African Americans in administration
- FDA’s wife, Eleanor, supported and helped him
Second New Deal
“Second 100 Days”
More social welfare benefits, better ___, and better stuff
Wagner Act
Legalized union practices as collective bargaining and closed shops.
Social Security System
Provide financial security in form of regular payments, who cannot support themselves.
Closed Shops
Workplaces open only to union members
Security and Exchange Communism
Regulate Stock Market (SEC).
Civil Works Administration
Put unemployed to work on building or improving roads, parks, etc.
National Recovery Administration
Balance unstable economy
Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
Offered loans to electric companies and farm for building power plants
“Lame Duck”
A leader whose authority is weakened because he/she is about to leave office. Hoover at time (before Roosevelt came into office because took long time to reach capital).
“Lame Duck Amendment”
20th. Changed the date of the inaugural to January 20th. Took place next election (after Roosevelt).
Fireside Chats
FDR every Sunday spoke on radio?
Emergency Banking Act
Authorized the govt. to inspect financial health of all banks.
Glass-Steagall Banking Act of 1933
Established a Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to insure bank deposits
Federal Securities Act
Required companies to provide information about their finances if they offered stock for sale.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Regulate the stock market.
Lewis Douglas
Roosevelt’s budget director. Thought his ideas were the end of western civilization.
Stimulated economy by…
Taking it off gold standard. Hoped to raise prices of farm products and other goods. Stimulate export trade.
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
Sent finds to overburdened local agencies.
Harry Hopkins
Former settlement worker. Longtime friend and advisor of Roosevelt. Strong below in helping pekoe find work.
Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
Ended sale of tribal lands begun under Dawes Act and restored some lands to Indian owners
John Collier
FDR’s commissioner of Indian Affairs
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
Sought to bolster prices of many business failures. Establishes National Recovery Administration (NRA), which set out to balance unstable economy through extensive planning.
FHA
Here today. Created to improve housing standards and conditions, to insure mortgages, and to stabilize mortgage market.
FDR’s “brain trust”
Raymond Moley, Adolf A. Berle, and Rexdord G. Tugwell. Helped draft policies.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Held highest position of any African American woman in the New Deal.
NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin.
Supreme Court upheld constitutionality of Wagner Act. NLRB = National Labor Relations Board.
3 types of insurance?
1) Old-age pensions and survivors’ benefits
2) Unemployment insurance
3) Aid for dependent children, the blind, and the disabled
1936 Election
Alfred M. Landon vs. FDR
FDR won by landslide
