New Deal Vocabulary

Question 1

Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

Answer 1

A lot in 1933 to raise crop prices by being finally leave a certain amount of their land unplanted thus lowering production.

Question 2

Federal Home Loan Bank Act

Answer 2

A lot in 1981 that lowered home mortgage and allowed farmers to refinance their loans and afford foreclosure.

Question 3

Federal Securities Act

Answer 3

A lot in 1933 that requires corporations to provide complete accurate information on all stock offenses.

Question 4

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

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Provided jobs for more than 2 million young men. They replanted forests, built trails dug irrigation ditches, and fought forest fires.

Question 5

Securities and Exchange Commission

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And agency created in 1934 that monitored the stock market and enforced laws that regulated the sale of stocks and bonds

Question 6

Works Progress Administration

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Key New Deal agency that provided work relief through various public works projects

Question 7

Wagner Act (NLRB)

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New deal law that abolished unfair labor practices, recognized the right of employees to organize labor unions, and gave workers the right to collective bargaining

Question 8

Frances Perkins

Answer 8

First female member of the US cabinet. Appointed secretary of labor she played a key role in the passage of a number of labor laws

Question 9

National Industrial Recovery Act

Answer 9

New deal agency that promoted economic recovery by regulating production, prices, and wages.

Question 10

Court Packing

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FDR plan to add up six new justices to the nine-member Supreme Court after the court had ruled that some New Deal Legislation was unconstitutional

Question 11

Tennessee Valley Authority

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Government agency that built dams in the Tennessee River Valley to control flooding and generate electric power

Question 12

Mexican Repatriation Act (1930s)

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Sent illegal and legal Mexicans back to their homeland because of the lack of jobs.

Question 13

The Welfare State

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A government that assumes responsibility for providing the welfare of children,the poor,elderly,sick,disabled and unemployed.

Question 14

Great Depression

Answer 14

Period lasting from 1929 to 1941 in when the US economy declined and unemployment increased.

Question 15

Dust Bowl

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Term used for the central and southern Great Plains during the 1930s when the region suffered from drought and dust storms.

Question 16

John Steinbeck

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Wrote the “Grapes of Wrath” discusses the Dust Bowl conditions, but instead of the characters finding the promise land they encounter exploitation, disease, hunger and political corruption.

Question 17

New Deal

Answer 17

Programs and legislation enacted by Franklin D Roosevelt during the Great Depression to promote economic recovery and social reform.

Question 18

Fireside chats

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Informal radio broadcrests in which FDR explained issues and New Deal programs to average Americans.

Question 19

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Elected president in 1932 who introduced the “New Deal” program to get the economy moving again.

Question 20

Eleanor Roosevelt

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A political activist who served as the eyes and ears to her husband President Roosevelt.

Question 21

Social Security Act

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1935 law that set up a pension system for retirees, established unemployment insurance, and it created insurance for victims of work related accidents

Question 22

Glass-Steagall Act (FDIC)

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This law in 1935 established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to protect individual bank accounts.

Question 23

Deficit Spending

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Practice of a nation paying out more money than it is receiving in revenues.

Question 24

Direct Relief

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The giving of money or food by the government directly to needy people.