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Chapter 13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | reformer and Democrat's presidential candidate pledging "a new deal for the American people" |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | Franklin's distant cousin whom he married. She later became involved in public affairs |
| New Deal | programs enacted by FDR during the depression to promote economic recovery and social reform |
| fireside chat | informal radio broadcasts in which FDR explains issues and New Deal programs to Americans |
| FDIC | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation-government agency that insures bank deposits |
| TVA | Tennessee Valley Authority-government agency that built dams in the TN River valley to control flooding and generate electric power |
| CCC | New Deal program that provided young men with relief jobs on enviromental conservation projects including reforestation and flood control |
| NRA | National Reclamation Act-1902 law that gave the federal government the power to decide where and how water would be distributed through the building and management of dams and irrigation projects |
| PWA | Public Works Administration-New Deal agency that provided millions of jobs constructing public buildings |
| Charles Coughlin | A Roman Catholic priest who accused FDR's New Deal of not doing enough to fight the depression. He called for the nationalization of industry and blamed the Communists |
| Huey Long | his solution to depression was share our wealth program-proposed high taxes on the wealthy and the redistribution of their income to poor Americans |
| Second New Deal | legislative activity begun by FDR in 1935 to solve problems created by the depression |
| WPA | Works Progress Administration-key New Deal agancy that provided work relief through various public works projects |
| John Maynard Keynes | British ecnomist who argued that deficit spending was needed to end the depression |
| pumping priming | primingeconomic theory that favored public works projects because they put money into the hands of consumers who would buy more goods, stimulating the economy |
| Social Security | 1935 law that set up a pension system ,established unempleyment insurance, and created insurance for poverty-stricken mothers and children,blind, and disabled. |
| Wagner Act | New Deal law that abolished unfair labor practices, recognized the right of employees to organize labor unions and gave workers the right to collective bargaining |
| collective bargaining | process in which employers negotiate with labor unions about hours, wages, and other working conditions |
| Fair Labor Standard Act | 1938 law that set a min wage, max workweek of 44hr ,and outlawed child labor |
| CIO | hCongress of Industrial Organization- labor organized in the 1930s that represented unskilled industrial workers |
| sit-down strikes | labor protest in which workers stopped working and occupy the workplace until their demands are met |
| court packing | FDR plan to add up to six new justices to the nine-member Supreme Court after the Court had ruled that some new deal legislation was unconstitutional |
| Black Cabinet | A.A leaders who served as unofficial advisers to FDR |
| Mary McLeod Bethune | an A.A teacher who worked to improve educational opportunities for A.A. She served as a special adviser to FDR on minority affairs |
| Indian New Deal | 1930s legislation that gave Indians greater control over their affairs and provided funding for school and hospitals |
| New Deal coalition | political force formed by diverse groups who united to support FDR and his deal |
| welfare state | gov. that assumes responsibility for providing for the welfare of the poor,elderly,sick,and unemployed |
| The Wizard of Oz | one of the most memorable depression-era films. It promised weary audiences that their dreams really would come true |
| Frank Capra | director whose characters in his films were everyday people struggling with the hardships of the time |
| War of the Worlds | Oct 30,1938 drama that was so realistic that poeple belived that Martians were actually invading . |
| Federal Art Project | division of the Works Progress Admin. that hired unemployed artisits to create artworks for public buildings and sponsored art-education pregras and exhibitions |
| mural | a large pic painted directly on a wall or ceiling |
| Dorothea Lange | a FSA photogropher who created powerful images of impoverished farmers and migrant workers. "Migrant Mother" |
| John Steinbeck | wrote the Grapes of Wrath.It tells the stroy of fictional Joad family who leave home in Olkahoma which has been invaded by the Dust Bowl, to California in hopes of a better life |
| Lilian Hellman | New Orleans native who wrote serveral plays featuring strong roles for women and noted for their socially conscious subject. |
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