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Chapter 13
Chapter 13 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Frankiln D. Roosevelt | Governor of New York, accepted Democratic nomination for President. |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | Distant cousin of FDR. |
| New Deal | Vague idea to combat the depression. Government needs to play a more important roll. |
| Fireside Chat | Informal radio speech to the people. |
| FDIC | Insured bank deposits up to $5,000. |
| TVA | Built dams in the TN River valley to control floods and to generate electric power. |
| CCC | Provided jobs for over 2 million men. Built forests, trails, dug ditches, and fought fires. |
| NRA | Developed codes of fair competition to govern whole industries. |
| PWA | Builts bridges, dams, power plants, and government buildings. |
| Charles Coughlin | Spoke out against FDR. |
| Huey Long | Expert performer whose folksy speeches delighted audiences. |
| Second New Deal | Addressed the elderly, poor, and the unemployed. |
| WPA | Built and improved highways, dredged rivers and harbors, and promoted soil and water conservation. |
| John Maynard Keynes | Argued that deficit spending was needed to end the depression. |
| Pump Priming | Putting people to work on public projects would put money in the hands of consumers who would buy more goods, stimulating the economy. |
| Social Security Act | Established unemployment insurance for workers who lost there job. |
| Wagner Act | Recognized the right of employees to join labor unions and gave workers the right to collective bargaining. |
| Collective Bargaining | Employers had to negotiate with unions about hours, wages, and other working conditions. |
| Fair Labor Standards Act | Provided workers with additional rights. Established a minimum wage and a maximum workweek of 44 hours. Outlawed child labor. |
| CIO | Targeted lower paid and ethnically more diverse workers than those represented by the AFL. |
| Sit-Down Strikes | Workers refuse to leave the workplace until a settlement is reached. |
| Court Packing | FDR's plan to add up to six new justices to the nine-member Supreme Court. |
| Black Cabinet | Unofficial African American advisers of the president. |
| Mary McLeod Bethune | Founder of the Bethune Cookman College. |
| Indian New Deal | Gave Indians economic assistance and greater control over their own affairs. |
| New Deal Coalition | Brought together southern whites, northern blue-collar workers, midwestern farmers, and African Americans. |
| Welfare State | A government that that assumes responsibility for providing for the welfare of children and the poor, elderly, sick, disabled, and unemployed. |
| The Wizard of Oz | Most memorable depression-era film. |
| Frank Capra | Directed films focused on the strength of average Americans. |
| War of the Worlds | Made people believe they were being invaded by Martians. |
| Federal Art Project | Offered job opportunities to artists. |
| Mural | Paintings celebrating the accomplishments of the workers who helped build the nation. |
| Dorothea Lange | A FSA photographer who created powerful images of impoverished farmers and migrant workers. |
| John Steinback | Wrote the Grapes of Wrath. |
| Lillian Hellman | New Orleans native who wrote plays featuring strong roles for women. |
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Bailey Charlton
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