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Great Depression Flashcards

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Black Thursday

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Day when stock prices began to fall & leading bankers pooled $30 million to try and bring them back up

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Black Tuesday

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Prices dropped, no real recovery, great depression began

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Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act 1930

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  • Hoover
  • Raised tariffs on 1,000 items
  • U.S. exports & imports dropped 50%
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Agricultural Marketing Act

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Aimed to keep crop prices up

Established by Hoover

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Hoover’s Public Works Program

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Used government money to build roads, buildings, etc.

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation

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Hoover

$2 billion to lend to large corporations

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Traditional Methods

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Hoover wouldn’t give direct hand outs

Made his work less effective on depression

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Drought of 1930s

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From Virginia to Oklahoma

Crops & livestock died of thirst

Hoover’s response - limited

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Three R’s

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Relief

Recovery

Reform

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Harold L. Ickes

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Secretary of the Interior

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Henry A. Wallace

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Secretary of Agriculture

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Francis Perkins

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Secretary of Labor

First woman cabinet member

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Brain Trust

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Informal group of advisors to FDR

Imagination & ability mattered, not government experience

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Emergency Banking Act

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FDR closed all banks

Re-opened as Secretary of Treasury saw fit

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Fireside Chat

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FDR’s radio chat where he explained what he was doing with the New Deal

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Glass-Steagall Act

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Goal - to keep people’s confidence in the banks

Established Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

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Insurance program for banks

Protected depositors in insured banks up to $5000

All members in the FRS required to join

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Gold Reserve Act 1934

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Gave President power to reduce the gold backing on the dollar up to 50%

Controlled Inflation

19
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John M. Keynes

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English economist

Justified debt spending

20
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Wagner-Steagall Act 1937

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Established U.S. Housing Authority

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U.S. Housing Authority

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Made loans to cities & states to clear slums & build low-cost housing

22
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Conservative Republicans

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Argued New Deal programs did too much & threatened capitalism

Established American Liberty League

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Radical Republicans

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Didn’t think New Deal did enough

24
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Huey Long

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Former governor of Louisiana

Radical

“Share the Wealth”

25
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Charles E. Coughlin

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“Radio” Priest

Radical

Thought New Deal was a Communist conspiracy

Anti-Semitic

Eventually censured by Roman Catholic Church

26
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Francis Townsend

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Radical

Old-Age pension plan

27
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William Green

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Lead AF of L

Threatened to oppose FDR in 1936

Dissapointed by NRA

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Schechter vs U.S. 1935

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Declared NRA unconstitutional

Overturned other New Deal legistlation

29
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Social Security Act

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Plan for the elderly, public assistance & unemployment

30
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Revenue Act of 1935

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“Soak the Rich” taxes

Largest incomes more heavily taxed

31
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Public Utility Holding Company

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Ensured fair prices for utilities

Gave SEC power to dissolve utility companies charging excessively

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National Labor Relations Act 1935

(Wagner Act)

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Guarenteed the right of workers to join unions

Est. NLRB

33
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National Labor Relations Board

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Oversaw union elections

Could stop unfair practices by employers

34
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Supreme Court vs New Deal

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Overturned AAA

Limited powers of SEC

Acted against minimum wage laws

35
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Soil Conservation& Adjustment Act

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Paid farmers to plant soil-conserving crops

36
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Government Contracts Act 1936

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Empowered Secretary of Labor to set minimum wages & max working hours

Prohibited firms from employing girls under 18, boys under 16

37
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Alf Landon

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Republican Candidate 1936

Governor of Kansas

38
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Norman Thomas

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Socialist Candidate 1936

39
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William Lemke

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Union Party Candidate 1936

Combination party of unhappy groups of people

40
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Court-Packing Plan

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FDR proposed to increase justices from 9-15 if justices refused to retire at 70

Opposed by Charles E. Hughes

Rejected by Senate

FDR lost favor of Congress

41
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2nd AAA

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Placed surplus farm products in storage

Goal : stabiliza prices around parity

42
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Fair Labor Standards Act

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Reduced work week to 40 hours

Set minimum wages

Time & 1/2 paid for overtime

Forbid labor by children under 16

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