New Deal Flashcards
1
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National Youth Admin(NYA)
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- created part time jobs for youth, part of WPA
- established training school
- nixon and Johnson were part of it
2
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Agricultural Adjustment Act(AAA)
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- goal is to raise farm prices
* to do so the cut prodution
3
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National Recovery Act(NRA)
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- Prohibited child labor
- right to unionize
- 40 hour work week
- North had higher wages than south
4
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Tennessee Valley Authority(TVA)(great lakes of south)
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- Created jobs
- cheap electricity
- Bring modern life
- revitalize the most underdeveloped
5
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Dust Bowl
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Millions of acres of top soil lost
6
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Grapes of Wrath
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- book by Strenbech
- about the depression,western farmers and how they lost everything
7
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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- eyes and ears and legs of the new deal
- supporter of civil rights
- helped those who were disadvantaged and needed protection
8
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Huey Long(King Fish)
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- share the wealth
- everyone gets $5,000
- worker get $2000 a year
- shorter work hours
9
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Charles E Coughlin
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-radio priest
-antiemetic
-went after banking industry
Wanted hard money
10
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Francis Townsend
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- 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
11
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Schechter Poultry Corp vs US
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Ruled against NIRA
12
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National Labor Relations Act(Wagner act)
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-Gave workers the right to bargain with employers
-right to unionize
-employers can’t do anything about it
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13
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Revenue act
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raised rate of people making $50,000 a year
14
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Social Security Act
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- 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
15
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Election of 1936
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- the rep thought that the 3rd party cans. Would take votes from roosevelt
- candidates were Long, Townsend, Coughlin
