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Chapter_34_Voc
Vocabulary for American pageant 12th edition chapter 34
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Term used by FDR in 1932 acceptance speech that came to describe his whole reform program. | New deal |
| Law of 1939 that prevented federal officials from engaging in campaign activities or using federal relief funds for political purposes. | hatch act |
| Roosevelt's scheme for gaining Supreme Court approval of New Deal legislation. | court packing |
| Organization of wealthy Republicans and conservative Democrats whose attacks on the New Deal caused Roosevelt to denounce them as "economic royalists" in the campaign of 1936. | American libert league |
| New Deal agency established to provide a public watchdog against deception and fraud in stock trading. | securities and exchange commission |
| The new union group that organized large numbers of unskilled workers with the help of the Wagner Act and the National Labor Relations Board. | committee for industrial organization |
| New Deal program that financed old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, and other reforms of income assistance. | social security |
| New Deal agency that aroused strong conservative criticism by producing lowcost electrical power in competition with private utilities. | Tennessee Valley Authority |
| THe drought-stricken plains areas from which hundreds of thousands of "Okies" were driven during the Great Depression. | Dust Bowl |
| New Deal farm agency that attempted to raise prices by paying farmers to reduce their production of crops and animals. | Agricultural Adjustment Act |
| Widely displayed symbol of the National Recovery Administration (NRA), which attempted to reorganized and reform U.S. industry. | blue eagle |
| Large federal employment program, established in 1935 under Harry Hopkins, that provided jobs in areas from road building to art. | Works Progress Administration |
| The early New Deal agency that worked to solve the problems of unemployment and conservation by employing youth in reforestation and other socially beneficial tasks. | Civilian Conservation Corps |
| Popular term for the special session of Congress in early 1933 that past vast quantities of Roosevelt-initiated legislation. | Hundred Days Congress |
| FDR's reform-minded intellectual advisors, who conceived much of the New Deal legislation. | Brain Trust |
| Republican who carried only two states in a futile campaign against "The Champ" in 1936. | Alfred M. Landon |
| Domineering boss of the mine workers' union who launched the CIO | John L Lewis |
| Supreme Court ruling of 1935 that struck down a mojor New Deal industry-and-labor agency. | Schechter Case |
| British economist whose theories helped justify New Deal deficit spending. | John Maynard Keynes |
| Roosevelt-declared clothing of all U.S. financial institution on March 6-10, 1933, in order to stop panic and prepare reforms. | Banking Holiday |
| Former bull moose progressive who spent billions of dollars on public building projects while carefully guarding against waste. | Harold Ickes |
| Former New York social worker who became an influentail FDR adviser and head of several New Deal agencies. | Harry Hopkins |
| Lopsided but bitter campaign the saw disadvantaged ecomonic groups lined up in a kind of "class warfare" against those better off. | Election 1936 |
| Dramatic CIO labor action in 1936 that forced the auto industry to recognize unions. | GM sit down strike |
| Former New York governor who roused the nation to action against the depression with his appeal to the forgotten man. | FDR |
| Louisiana senator and popular mass agitator who promised to make "every man a king" at the expense of the wealthy . | Huey Long |
| presidential wife who became an effective lobbyist for the poor during the New deal. | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Supreme court justice whose "switch in time" to support New deal legislation helped undercut FDR's courtpacking scheme. | Justice Roberts |
| Writer whose best-selling novel protrayed the suffering of the dust bowl "Okies" in the thirties. | Steinbeck |
| The "Microphone Messiah" Of michigan whose mass radio appeals turned anti-New Deal and anti-semitic. | Charles Coughlin |
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