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chapter.18
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| new deal | roosevelts policies for ending the Depression. |
| gold standard | one ounce of gold equaled a set number of dollars |
| hundred days | when the new president sent a bill to get passed; the days between march 9 and june 19, 1933 |
| the advisors | 1."new nationalism" these advisors believed that business and gov should work together to manage the economy, 2. the second group went further, they distrusted big business and blamed business leaders for causing the depression. |
| fireside chats | direct talks FDR held with the american people and to let them know what he was trying to acomplish. |
| securites and exchange commission (SEC) | to regulate stock market and prevent fraud |
| glass-steagall act | seperated commercial banking from investment banking. |
| federal deposit insurance corporation (FDIC) | to provide government insurance for bank deposits up to a certain amount. |
| Agricultural adjustment administration (AAA) | the government would pay the farmers not to raise certain livestock, suck as hogs, and not to grow certain crops such as, cotton, corn, wheat and tobacco. |
| national industrial recovery act (NIRA) | suspended the antitrust laws and allowed business, labor, and government to cooperate in setting up voluntary rules for each industry. |
| national recovery administration (NRA) | ran the whole problem, |
| home owners loan corperation (HOLC) | bought the morgages of many homeowners who were behind on their payments |
| farm credit administration (FCA) | helped farmers finance their morgages |
| civilian conservation corps (CCC) | combined roosevelts love of nature and commitment to conservstion witht he need to help the unemployed. |
| federal emergency relief administration (FERA) | channeled money, a half a billion went to state and local agencies to fund thier relief projects |
| public works administration (PWA) | another federal relief agency, began a series of construction projects to build and improve highways, dams, sewer systems, water works, schools and other government facilities. |
| civil works administration (CWA) | hired workers directly and put them on federal governments payroll. |
| deficit spending | roosevelt borrowed money tp pay for his programs |
| american liberty league | its purpose was to organize opposition to the new deal and "teach the necissity of respect for the rights of person ans propety" |
| works progress administraton (WPA) | headed by harry hopkins, |
| national labor relations board (NLRD) | organixed factory elections by secret ballot to determine whether workers wanted a union. |
| binding arbitration | a neutral party would listen to both sides and decide the issues. |
| commettiee for industrial organization (CIO) | set out to organize industrial unions, or unions that included all workers in a particular industry, skilled and unskilled. |
| sit-down strike | workers stopped working and refused to leave the factory. |
| social security act | its major goal was to provise some security for elderly and for unemployed workers. |
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