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The American Pageant
Vocabulary Chapter 33
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | The only American president elected to more than two terms, he forged a durable coalition that realigned American politics for decades. He defeated incumbent Republican Herbert Hoover in November 1932, at the depths of the Great Depression. |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | The First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the Deal policies of her husband.She worked to enhance the status of working women although she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment. |
| Harry Hopkins | Franklin Delano Roosevelt's closest advisers. He was one of The architect of the New Deal, especially the relief programs of the Works Progress Administration (WPA), which he directed and built into the largest employer in the country. |
| Father Coughlin | A controversial Roman Catholic priest at Royal Oak, Michigan's National. He was one of the first political leaders to use radio to reach a mass audience, and more than thirty million tuned to his weekly broadcasts during the 1930s. |
| Frances Perkins | Secretary of labor for the 12 years of FDR's presidency and the first woman to hold a Cabinet post. She brought to her office a deep commitment to improving the lives of workers and creating a legitimate role for labor unions in American society. |
| Huey Long | The tyrannical governor of Louisiana, nicknamed "the Kingfish." he created the Share Our Wealth program in, which proposed wealth redistribution measures in the form of a net asset tax on corporations and individuals to curb poverty. |
| Francis Townsend | An American physician who was best known for his revolving old-age pension proposal during the Great Depression. Known as the "Townsend Plan," this proposal influenced the establishment of the Roosevelt administration's Social Security system. |
| Harold Ickes | A United States administrator and politician. He served as United States Secretary of the Interior for 13 years, from 1933 to 1946, the longest tenure of anyone to hold the office, and the second longest serving Cabinet member in U.S. |
| George W. Norris | A U.S. politician from the state of Nebraska and a leader of progressive and liberal causes in Congress. He served five terms in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican from 1903. |
| John L Lewis | He rose through the ranks of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) and from 1911 was also an organizer of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), with which the miners' union was affiliated. |
| Alfred M Landon | An American Republican politician, who served as the 26th Governor of Kansas from 1933–1937. He was best known for being the Republican Party's presidential candidate in the 1936 election; he was defeated in a landslide by Franklin D. Roosevelt . |
| New Deal | The set of programs and policies designed to promote economic recovery and social reform introduced during the 1930s by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
| Brain Trust | A group of official or unofficial advisers concerned especially with planning and strategy that aided FDR in the creation of the New Deal. |
| Hundred Days Congress | The first session of Congress during FDR's first term, which hurriedly passed almost any piece of legislation the president handed them. They presided over most of the creation of the New Deal acts. |
| The Three “Rs” | Relief, recovery, and reform. That is, relief for the unemployed and poor; recovery of the economy to normal levels; and reform of the financial system to prevent a repeat depression. |
| Glass-Steagall Act | A law that established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in the United States and introduced banking reforms, some of which were designed to control speculation. |
| Civilian Conservation Corp | Part of the New Deal; a public work relief program in the United States. It provided unskilled manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources in rural lands owned by federal, state and local governments. |
| Works Progress Administration | The largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads,It fed children and redistributed food, clothing, and housing. |
| Schechter case | A decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that invalidated regulations of the poultry industry according to power under the commerce clause. This was a unanimous decision that declared unconstitutional the National Industrial Recovery Act. |
| National Recovery Act | A major New Deal agency established by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. The goal was to eliminate cut-throat competition by bringing industry, and to help workers by setting minimum wages and maximum weekly hours. |
| Public Works administration | Part of the National Industrial Recovery Act in June 1933. It was construction for public works such as dams and bridges, with the goal of providing employment, stabilizing purchasing power, and contributing to a revival of American industry. |
| Dust Bowl | A period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 (in some areas until 1940). The phenomenon was caused by severe drought. |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | A federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933, providing navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley. |
| Federal Housing Authority | Also called the Capehart Act, it was part of the New Deal passed during the Great Depression in order to make housing and home mortgages more affordable. |
| Social Security Act | Drafted during FDR first term by the President, the act was an attempt to limit what were seen as dangers in the modern American life, including old age, poverty, unemployment, and the burdens of widows and fatherless children. |
| Wagner Act | The Act does not apply to workers who are covered by the Railway Labor Act, agricultural employees.state or local government.US federal law that limits the means with which employers may react to workers in the private sector who create labor unions. |
| National Labor Relation board | NLRB; federal agency regulating and investigating unfair labor practices. |
| Congress of Industrial Organization | A federation of unions for industrial workers proposed by John L. Lewis in 1932, later founded in 1935. It supported FDR's New Deal, and was open to workers of all skill levels, unlike most labor unions of that time. |
| Liberty League | Formed in August 1934 by conservative political and business leaders who opposed FDR's New Deal. After supporting anti-New Deal candidates of both parties in the 1934, the League moved on in 1935 to attack the whole New Deal program. |
| Roosevelt Coalition | Franklin D. Roosevelt created a coalition that included the Democratic party, big city machines,labor unions, minorities (racial, ethnic and religious), liberal farm groups, intellectuals, and white Southerners. |
| Court-Packing Scheme | After having several parts of his New Deal invalidated by an old, conservative Supreme Court, FDR drafted a bill that would allow him to add or forcibly replace justices of the court. Both the legislature and the public responded angrily to his plan. |
| Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) | A U.S. government agency that supervises the exchange of securities so as to protect investors against malpractice. |
| Deficit spending | The amount by which a government, private company, or individual's spending exceeds income over a particular period of time, also called simply "deficit," or "budget deficit;" the opposite of budget surplus. |
| Holding Company | A company or firm that owns other companies' outstanding stock. It usually refers to a company which does not produce goods or services itself; rather, its only purpose is owning shares of other companies. |
| Collective bargaining | Process of voluntary negotiations between employers and trade unions aimed at reaching agreements which regulate working conditions. Collective agreements usually set out wage scales, working hours, training, health and safety. |
| Checks and Balances | US Constitution which divides governing power between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Branches. Each branch exercises some form of authority over the others, thereby balancing power across many individuals and institutions. |
| Boondoggling | A project that wastes time and money. The term arose from a 1935 New York Times article that claimed over $3 million had been spent on recreational activities for the jobless as part of the New Deal. |
| Fascist | A radical and authoritarian nationalist political ideological or advocate. Fascists seek to organize a nation on corporatist perspectives; values; and systems such as the political system and the economy. |
| Pinko | Derogatory term for a person regarded as sympathetic to communism, though not necessarily a Communist Party member. |
| Left (or left wing) | A term used to describe support for government-instigated social reform or change. A "leftist" is someone who advocated for government regulation or intervention into |
| Blank check | Also known as carte blanche; the granting of funding or support to whatever degree necessary, as if the beneficiary were given a check with no value written in, but had already been signed, granting them complete access to as much money as they need. |
| Twenty-First Amendment | Proposed on February 20, 1933, and ratified on December 5, 1933. It is the only amendment to repeal another amendment, the Eighteenth, and the only one to be ratified by state conventions rather than by state legislatures. |
| Hoarding | The practice of buying up and holding resources so that they can be sold to customers for profit. |
| Jurisdictional | A legal term that refers to the subject matter a disciplinary authority is allowed by law to address. If the disciplinary authority does not have jurisdiction, no action can be taken. |
| Dispossessed | The expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law. |
| Rubber-stamp | To blindly authorize or declare into law. The Hundred Days Congress, mostly composed of newly elected Democrats, rubber-stamped most of the acts of the New Deal. |
| Foreign Exchange | A worldwide over-the-counter exchange of currencies. May also refer to international business as a whole. |
| Twentieth Amendment | A constitutional amendment drafted to eliminate the dangerous "lame duck" waiting period by moving the date of when the president-elect takes office, from March 4th to January 20th. |
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