New Deal Flashcards
National Youth Admin(NYA)
- created part time jobs for youth, part of WPA
- established training school
- nixon and Johnson were part of it
Agricultural Adjustment Act(AAA)
- goal is to raise farm prices
* to do so the cut prodution
National Recovery Act(NRA)
- Prohibited child labor
- right to unionize
- 40 hour work week
- North had higher wages than south
Tennessee Valley Authority(TVA)(great lakes of south)
- Created jobs
- cheap electricity
- Bring modern life
- revitalize the most underdeveloped
Dust Bowl
Millions of acres of top soil lost
Grapes of Wrath
- book by Strenbech
- about the depression,western farmers and how they lost everything
Eleanor Roosevelt
- eyes and ears and legs of the new deal
- supporter of civil rights
- helped those who were disadvantaged and needed protection
Huey Long(King Fish)
- share the wealth
- everyone gets $5,000
- worker get $2000 a year
- shorter work hours
Charles E Coughlin
-radio priest
-antiemetic
-went after banking industry
Wanted hard money
Francis Townsend
- old aged get pension
- $200 per month for 60 yr old and older but had to spend it all
- only 9% of people live over 60
Schechter Poultry Corp vs US
Ruled against NIRA
National Labor Relations Act(Wagner act)
-Gave workers the right to bargain with employers
-right to unionize
-employers can’t do anything about it
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Revenue act
raised rate of people making $50,000 a year
Social Security Act
- corner stone and supreme achievement of new deal
- politician can’t take it away
- 65 years to collect social security
- set up a shared federal and state insurance
- pay tax on salary
Election of 1936
- the rep thought that the 3rd party cans. Would take votes from roosevelt
- candidates were Long, Townsend, Coughlin
court packing
- 6 justices for every 1 that retired
- no need to pack court b/c of Wagner and SS acts
- put Hugo Black on bench
Economic slump
- fed budget cut
- SS tax
- 4 mil people lost their jobs
Farm Security Admin
- Fell under bank head jones act
- gave money to farmers to purchase farms
Fair Labor Standards act
- Workers affected by interstate commerce
- $40 and hour
- 40 hour work week
- prohibit child labor
Mid term elections
- Tries to pick his own cans
- tries to purge the party for the people who don’t support new deal
- fails
- majority in house and senate got smaller
Civil Conservation Corp(CCC)
- Jobs for men ages 18-25
- can’t be married
- public work(bridges)
- sent away to south or west
