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Chapter 19
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Glass-Steagall Banking Act | Prohibited banks from speculating on the stock market |
| Civilian Conservation Corps | Put young men to work; planting trees, fighting forest fires, building trails, etc. |
| Wagner Act | Right to organize unions and bargain collectively |
| Works Progress Administration | Helped artists, musicians, actors, and writers work |
| Public Works Administration | Help construction companies work |
| National Labor Relations Board | Organize secret ballots to see if workers wanted unions. |
| Securities Act of 1933 | Companies had to provide truthful information about stocks and bonds. |
| Civil Works Administration | Hired workers directly, including women. Improved airports, built roads, playgrounds, etc. |
| National Recovery Administration | Declared unconstitutional in 1935 |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | Covered the money that people saved in banks against laws |
| Intervention in the economy | Franklin Roosevelt believed the government should intervene in the economy |
| New Deal | End the depression. The government invested money into the economy, made new jobs, and fed people. |
| Restore confidence | First thing Roosevelt did to fight the depression |
| Senator Huey Long | Wanted to redistribute wealth |
| Second New Deal Why? | Roosevelt launched new deal because the first new deal programs hadn’t recovered the economy enough |
| Social Security Act | Federal government is responsible for people unable to work |
| New Deal helped address the needs of which groups? | Woman, African Americans, and laborers |
| Court Packing Plan | Roosevelt's court packing plan was a serious mistake because it interfered with the constitution and separation of power. |
| Decreasing government spending | Put the economy back into a recession. Led to the second new deal |
| The broker estate | When the government works out conflicts |
| Stock market crash. | Main reason for stock market crash was buying stocks on margin |
| Contributed to the Great Depression. | Overproduction, poor banking, and speculation |
| New Deal | Policies by FDR to help us out of the great depression |
| The CCC | Provided immediate employment to young men to do public works projects. |
| Hoovervilles | People were lost jobs and were kicked out of their houses, stayed in shelters made out of scraps |
| What did the New Deal provide? | Jobs, home loans, and took care of the American worker |
| Discuss the New Deal’s legacy, including its effectiveness in dealing with the Depression and its lasting effects on the role of government. | fundamentally redefined the American government from a passive entity to an active guarantor of economic stability and social welfare, although it did not fully |