history test Feb 28 Flashcards
What year was Franklin D. Roosevelt first elected?
1933
Prior to FDR’s presidency, what were the main things that the federal government did for Americans?
deliver mail and protect shores
What was the name of FDR’s plan for getting the US out of the Great Depression?
new deal
What were the 3 goals of the programs of the New Deal?
Reform recovery and relief
What were Relief programs designed to do?
Provide immediate help who needed food and shelter
What were Recovery programs designed to do?
Promote economic recovery programs by encouraging spending or creating demand for more goods.
What were Reform programs designed to do?
Prevent another great depressions
What was the FIRST action FDR took as President to help the US economy?
Declaring a bank holiday
What had caused the banks to collapse?
People withdrawing money in short amounts of time
What were “Fireside Chats”?
Weekly radio speeches by FDR
Which program (that was both Relief and Recovery) put people to work repairing buildings, building highways, and constructing public buildings, such as the old East Haven High School?
Public works administration (PWA)
Which program, from the “2nd New Deal” helped artists, writers, musicians, and photographers, by funding programs that created murals, sculptures, books, and travel guides and set up writing programs, theatres and arts projects?
Work progress administration (WPA
what did the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) do
Provides insurance for individual bank accounts
what was the Civilian Conservation Corps
Relief
Federal Housing Administration
Recovery
what did the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC do
Reform
What was the “2nd New Deal”?
the social security act and the WPA.
What was the Republican (conservative) argument against FDR and the New Deal?
Their argument was that it was unconstitutional.
- Which New Deal programs were found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court?
NIRA and the AAA
What was the outcome of the 1936 election?
Roosevelt won by a landslide
