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US His 9
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Eleanor Roosevelt | President's "Eyes and Ears" during the first New Deal |
| Charles Coughlin | Priest-criticized the New Deal |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Signed into law fifteen pieces of legislation in the first humdred days of office |
| Huey Long | Introduced "Share of Wealth" program |
| FDIC | Program to insure bak deposits-Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
| TVA | Built a series of dams to generate electric power-Tennessee Valley Authority |
| Goals of the New Deal | Provide relief, recovery, and reform |
| Why did some oppose the New Deal? | It gave too much power to the government which threatened individual freedoms |
| American Liberty League | Formed to oppose FDR's New Deal |
| Goals of Agricultural Adjustment Act | End overproduction and raide crop prices |
| WPA | Helped build or improve the nations public highways - Works Progress Administration |
| Pump Priming | Putting money in the hands of consumers so that they can buy more goods in order to stimulate the economy |
| Fair Labor Standards Act 1938 | Established a minimum wage and a maximum workweek of 44 hours |
| Court packing | People accused Pres. Roosevelt of this when he tried to increase the number of Justices on the Supreme Court |
| John Maynard Keynes | British ecomonist who believed that deficit spending was necessary to provide the necessary relief from the depression |
| Social Security Act | Introduced by FDR to help retirees |
| Rural Electrificatin Administration | Provided electricity to farmers |
| Wagner Act | Recognized right of workers to join labor unions and gave workers the right to collective bargaining |
| UAW | Participated in a sit down strike until General Motors agreed to recognize them-United Automobile Workers union |
| 1938-Republican gain power in Congress | FDR reduced federal spending, Federal Reserve raised interest rates-FDR miscalculated-economy took a downturn and wiped out FDR's progress-some peolpe wanted a change and voted in Republicans |
| Indian New Deal | Provided funding for the construction of new schools and hospitals |
| Black Cabinet | Group of African American Presidential advisors |
| John Collier | Commissioner of Indian Affairs |
| Welfare state | Roosevelt's programs lead to a rise of this in he United States |
| New Deal coalition | |
| What did Eleanor Roosevelt do to show her support of minorities? | Sat with black delegates at a conference |
| In the 30's, what did the Bureau of Indian Affairs stop discouraging? | Native Americans practicing thier own ancient religion |
| Why did FDR set aside 12 million acres of land? | To establish national parks |
| How many terms did Franklin D. Roosevelt serve as president? | He was elected for 4 terms, he served 3 terms and died before beginning his 4th term |
| Frances Perkins | First female cabinet member |
| Murals | Large pictures on public buildings celebrating the people who helped build our nation |
| The Wizard of Oz | Most memorable Depression-era movie |
| Frank Capra | Director who made movies that showed the strength of average Americans |
| John Steinbeck | Wrote a novel about the Joad family titled "The Grapes of Wrath" |
| Lillian Hellman | 1930's playwright-wrote socially conscious plays with strong female characters |
| War of The Worlds | Radio program that caused national panic in US |
| Glenn Miller | Top swing musician |
| One way Americans escaped their concerns during the 30's | Went to theaters to watch movies to forget about troubles for awhile |
| "The Lone Ranger" "The Shadow" | Radio series programs |
| Federal Art Project | Set a precident for federal funding of the arts and artists |
| What did the growth of the auto industry in the early 1900 lead to? | Growth of other industries and of suburban communities |
| Urban workers experienced growing wealth in the '30's, what did farmers experience? | They saw their income decline and their debt grow. |
| How did President Harding help American businesses? | Signed a bill that raised protective tariff rates so imports would cost more and people would buy American made goods to save money. |
| Whey did US leaders in the 1920 hope to keep the world at arms length? | To avoid war |
| Modernists felt these were more important than education. | Science and secular ideas |
| The quota system of the National Origins Act did not apply to... | Mexico |
| Women of the 1920's who demonstrated significant changes in manners, morals, and mindset. | Flapper |
| Who often had a pessimistice, skeptical world view? | Writers of "The Lost Generation" |
| Advocated the separation of races | Marcus Garvey |
| The Harlem Renaissance allowed African American writes to explore... | The pains and joys of being black in America. |
| Who were the litigants in the Scopes trial of 1925? | Fundamentalist and the supporters of the theory of evolution |
| What threatened the ecomonic good times of the 1920's? | The uneven distribution of wealth and growing consumer debt. |
| What was one cause of unemployment during the Great Depression? | People not buying products, so the complanies cut the amount of product they produced, thus causing companies to layoff large groups of employees |
| At first, what did Pres. Hoover rely on to relieve the depression? | Volunteerism and localism |
| Successful public-works project that began under Pres. Hoover | Construction of a major dam on the Colorado River |
| Former social worker who became the first femal Cabinet member in US History | Frances Perkins |
| What authority did the Emergency Banking bill give President Roosevelt? | Temporarily close banks while they got their accounts in order |
| Established to ensure bank deposits up to $5,000 | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
| Raised crop prices by paying farmers to not plant all their land and to kill excess livestock | Agricultural Adjustment Act |
| Program that the wealthy pay higher taxes that would then be distributed to poor Americans. | Huey Long's "Share the Wealth" |
| Funding public-works projects to put unemployed people to work | Example of pump-priming |
| Recognized the right of employees to join labor unions | Wagner Act |
| Result of sit-down strike at the General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan in the 1930's | Recognized the United Automibile Workers Union |
| Reason critic give for Pres. Roosevelt proposing to increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court | To get more NEW DEAL supporters on the Supreme Court so more New Deal policy would pass |
| FDR's unofficial group of African American advisors | Black Cabinet |
| Nickname given to presidency during Pres. Franklin D. Rooselvelt term was... | Imperial presidency because the office gain power during his terms |
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