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chapter 13 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1.Franklin D. Roosevelt | In 1932 accepted the nomination of president by (D). |
| 2.Eleanor Roosevelt | Franklin's distant cousin that he married |
| 3.New Deal | programs and legislation enacted by Franklin D.Roosevelt during the Great Depression to promote economic recovery and social reform |
| 4.fireside chat | Informal radio broadcasts in which FDR explained issues and New Deal programs to average Americans |
| 5.FDIC | Government agency that insures bank deposits,guaranteeing that depositors' money will be safe |
| 6.TVA | government agency that built dams in the Tennessee River valley to control flooding and generate electric power |
| 7.CCC | New Deal program that provided young man with relief jobs on environmental conservation projects , including reforestation and flood control |
| 8.NRA | New Deal agency that promoted economic recovery by regulating production,prices,and wages it was part of the 3R's Roosevelt placed |
| 9.PWA | New Deal agency that provided millions of jobs constructing public buildings |
| 10.Charles Coughlin | He challenged FDR |
| 11.Huey Long | he was a new deal critic from Louisiana |
| 12.Second New Deal | legislative activity begun by Franklin D.Roosevelt in 1935 to solve problems created by the Great Depression |
| 13.WPA | key new Deal agency that provided work relief through various public works projects |
| 14.John Maynard Keynes | British economist |
| 15.pump priming | economic theory favored public works projects because they put money into the hands of consumers who would buy more goods, stimulating the economy |
| 16.Social Security Act | 1935 law that set up a pension system for retirees, established unemployment insurance, and created insurance for poverty-stricken mothers and children, the blind and disabled. |
| 17.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 |
| 18.collective bargaining | process in which employers negotiate the labor unions about employment hours, wages, and other working conditions |
| 19.Fair Labor Standards Act | 1938 law that set a minimum wage, maximum wage workweek of 44 hours and outlawed child labor |
| 20.CIO | was to help lower paid and ethnically more diverse than others |
| 21.sit-down strikes | labor protest in which workers stop working and occupy the workplace until their demands are met. |
| 22.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. |
| 23.Black Cabinet | Group of African American leaders who served as unofficial advisers to Franklyn D. Roosevelt. |
| 24.Mary McLeod Bethune | was a member of the black cabniet |
| 25.Indian New Deal | 1930s legislation that gave Indians greater control over their affairs and provided funding for schools and hospitals. |
| 26.New Deal coalition | political force formed by new groups who united to support Frankly D. Roosevelt and his New deal. |
| 27.welfare state | Government that assumes responsibility for providing for the welfare of the poor, elderly, sick and unemployed. |
| 28.The Wizard of Oz | one of the most memorable depression-era flims |
| 29.Frank Capra | he was a director |
| 30.War of the Worlds | a radio station drama |
| 31.Federal Art Project | divisions of the Works Progress Administration that hired unemployed artist to create artworks for public buildings and sponsored art-education programs and exhibitions. |
| 32.mural | a large picture painted directly on a wall or ceiling. |
| 33.Dorothea Lange | a woman who took photographs of the impoverished framers and migrant workers |
| 34.John Steinbeck | was the most famous novelist in the 1930s |
| 35.Lillian Hellman | A New Orleans native who wrote strong roles for women |