Second New Deal

Question 1

WPA

Answer 1

Works Progress Administration built or improved a good part of the nation’s highways, dredged rivers and harbors, and promoted soil and water conservation
most famous projects it funded were the San Antonio River Walk and Appalachian Trail

Question 2

Social Security Act

Answer 2

created a pension system for elderly and retirees, established unemployment insurance for workers who lost their jobs, created insurance for victims of work related accidents, and provided aid for poverty stricken mothers and children, blind and disabled

Question 3

Rural Electric Administration (REA)

Answer 3

loaned money to electric utilities to build power line, bringing electricity to isolated rural areas

Question 4

National Labor Relations Act

Answer 4

Wagner Act recognized the right of employees to join labor unions and gave workers the right to collective bargaining

Question 5

Collective Bargaining

Answer 5

employers had to negotiate with unions about hours, wages, and other working conditions

Question 6

Fair Labor Standards Act

Answer 6

1938 provided workers with additional rights by
establishing a minimum wage, maximum workweek and
outlawing child labor!

Question 7

AFL

Answer 7

American Federation of Labor represented skilled workers such as plumbers, carpenters, and electricians who joined trade or craft unions

Question 8

CIO

Answer 8

Congress of Industrial Organizations organized by John L. Lewis the workers it represented were lower paid and ethnically more diverse than those workers represented by the AFL

Question 9

Federal Arts Project

Answer 9

provided artists with more work opportunities

Question 10

Court Packing

Answer 10

name for Roosevelt’s plan to add up to six new Justices to the nine-member Court all most likely New Deal supporters

Question 11

Indian New Deal

Answer 11

a program that gave Indians economic assistance and greater control over their own affairs

Question 12

Dawes Act

Answer 12

1887 divided native lands into smaller plots

Question 13

Bureau of Indian Affairs

Answer 13

encouraged the practice of native languages, religions, and traditional customs

Question 14

Indian Reorganization Act

Answer 14

restored tribal control over Native American land

Question 15

Navajo Livestock Reduction Program

Answer 15

mandated that the Navajo sell or kill thousands of sheep because the federal authorities thought that the sheep were causing soil erosion on the Colorado Plateau