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The New Deal Flashcards

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Radio addresses by FDR - called and informed Americans

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Fireside chats

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First hundred days

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Period from FDRs inauguration March until June 1933 in office of president

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Stabilizing financial institutions

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  • Restore publics confidence in banks
  • closed banks for days and passed emergency banking act
  • FDR found most banks healthy
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Emergency banking act

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Authorized government to inspect financial health of all banks

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What happened after FDR found most banks “healthy”?

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They started putting their money back into accounts

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Glass-Steagall Banking Act

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Established FDIC to insure all bank deposits

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Federal securities act

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Required companies to provide info with finances if they offered stock for sale

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Securities and exchange commission

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Regulates and oversees all activities and transactions of stock market

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Federal emergency relief administration

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Provides federal funds to state relief agencies

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Public works programs

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Government funded projects to public facilities

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Civil works administration

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Put unemployed to work building or improving roads, parks, airports, etc

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Civilian conservation corps

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Put more than 2.5 million unmarried young men to work restoring and maintaining beaches, parks, forests

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FDR’s fav program

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CCC

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more about the CCC

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  • men earned $30/per month, lived in camps for free
  • Received free medical care and job training
  • Eleanor convinced CCC to fund similar program for women
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The new deal

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Came to refer to the relief, recovery, and reform programs of FDRs administration that were aimed at combating Great Depression

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NRA

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national recovery administration
-balanced unstable economy through extensive planning
set a minimum wag

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FDR was the first president to appoint a women to cabinet post - who was it?

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francis perkins

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FDR’s administration hired many

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african americans

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mary McLeod Bethune

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held highest position of any african american in New Deal

director of the Division of Negro Affairs

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FDR’s most important colleague?

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Eleanor roosevelt

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what did Eleanor do and why did she rise curiosity?

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she traveled widely to support New Deal (FDR’s disability)
reported to FDR conditions of country
activism bothered americans
-original role of first lady was to be the hostess

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second new deal

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in response to critics who said FDR is not doing enough

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what did the second new deal bring

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more social welfare benefits, stricter controls over businesses, support for unions and higher wages

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wagner act?

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legalized union practices such as collective bargaining and closed shops
outlawed spying on union activities

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what banned child labor and established a national minimum wage

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fair labor standards act

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3 types of social security benefits

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  1. old - age pension and survivor’s benefits - eligible at age 65
  2. unemployment insurance - employers with more than 8 employees pay this tax
  3. aid for blind, disabled, and or dependent children - provide aid
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new deal does too much?

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most republicans and wealthy class believed new deal went too far

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republicans considered new deal plan to be…

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socialistic

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FDR aimed high taxes at who?

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republicans and wealthy class

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republicans hated social security?

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penalized successful people, having social security number was seen as moving towards a militaristic society

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american liberty league?

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led opposition of New Deal, limits individual freedom, “un-american”

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new deal does not do enough?

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progressives and socialists felt new deal needed to go further
some called for economic overhaul and to start new economic system
some radicals called for a redistribution of income

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paying out more money from the annual federal budget than the government receives in revenues

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deficit spending

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deficit spending can be simplified as..

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spending more than what is made

New deal programs required government to borrow money

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lasting new deal achievements

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bridges dams, hoover dam, golden gate bridge
people looked to government for support
FDR and Eleanor received letters from desperate americans
new deal helped in short term

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