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Chapter 13
The New Deal
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1.Franklin D. Roosevelt | Democratic nominee for President |
| 2.Eleanor Roosevelt | Franklin's wife and distant cousin. |
| 3.New Deal | programs and legislation during the great depression to promote economic recovery |
| 4.fireside chat | informal radio broadcasts in which FDR explainde issues and New Deal programs to average Americans |
| 5.Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) | gov't agency that insures bank deposits, guaranteeing that depositors' money will be safe |
| 6.TVA | built dams to provide electricity and replanted forests, built fertilizer plants, and so on |
| 7.Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) | created to counter the depression's devastating impact on young men and provided jobs |
| 8.NRA | was established by the National Industrial Recovery Act |
| 9.Public Works Administration (PWA) | builts bridges, dams, power plants, and gov't buildings |
| 10.Charles Coughlin | attracted millions of listeners to his radio show, and accused FDR of not doing enough for the depression |
| 11.Huey Long | New Deal critic and senator of Louisiana |
| 12.Second New Deal | addressed the problems of the poor, the elderly, and the unemployed |
| 13.Works progress Administration (WPA) | built or improved the nation's highways, dredged drivers and harbors, and promoted soil and water conservation |
| 14.John Maynard Keynes | argued that deficit spending was needed to end the depression |
| 15.Social Security Act (SSA) | established unemployment insurance for workers who lost their job |
| 16.pump priming | theory that putting people to work on public projects put money into the hands of consumers that would buy more goods |
| 17.wagner act | recognized the right of employees to join labor unions and gave workers the right to collective bargaining |
| 18.collective bargaining | employers had to negotiate with unions |
| 19.Fair Labor standards act | provided workers with additional rights |
| 20.Congress of Industrial organizations | represented unskilled industrial workers |
| 21.sit-down strikes | workers refuse to leave workplace until a settlement is reached |
| 22.court packing | plan to add up six new justices to the nine-member supreme court |
| 23.black cabinet | FDR invited blacks to advise him, known as this |
| 24.Mary McLeod Bethune | member of black cabinet |
| 25.Indian New Deal | gave Indians economic assistance & control over their own affairs |
| 26.New Deal Coalation | coalition of southern whites, northern blue-collar workers, farmers, etc |
| 27.welfare state | gov't that assumes responsibility for the poor, elderly, sick, disables, unemployed. |
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