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Chapter 22
Section 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Second New Deal | promoted gen. welfare and fed. gov. intervening to protect citizens' rights |
| Works Progress Administration | provided programs in arts and built/improved nation's highways doing projects |
| Harry Hopkins | in charge of WPA |
| John Maynard Keynes | believed in pump priming |
| pump priming | public projects gives money to consumers which stimulates the economy |
| Social Security Act | gave unemployment insurance and provided those in need |
| Rural Electricity Administration | loan money to electric utilities to build power lines, bringing electricity to isolated rural areas |
| Department of the Interior's | promoted benefits of electricity, asked singer Woody Guthrie |
| Wagner Act | recognized right of employees to join labor union and gave them the right to collective bargaining |
| collective bargaining | employers to negotiate with unions hours, wages, and other working conditions |
| National Labor Relations Board | looked into worker's complaints |
| Fair Labor Standards Act | provided workers with additional rights and established min. wage |
| American Federation of Labor | represented skilled workers and joined trade or craft unions |
| John L. Lewis | president of United Mine Workers |
| Congress of Industrial Organizations | targeted by CIO organizing campaigns which made ethnically more diverse |
| United Automobile Workers Union | staged sit-down strike and it became a success |
| Alfred Lening | competed with Roosevelt in the pres. election |
| Schechter Poultry v. U.S. | Supreme Court ruled that President had no power to regulate interstate commerce or the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional |
| court packing | adding more Justices |
| Justice Owen J. Roberts | provided deciding vote and his 2 votes were removed which packed the court |
| Judge Willis Van Devanter | resigned court which enabled FDR to nominate his own justice |