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maxush-New Deal
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Dem. FDR Rep. Hoover FDR wins | Election of 1932 |
| FDR's program to deal with depression for America | New Deal |
| direct assistance to the people | relief |
| measures to end the depression | recovery |
| measures to prevent another depression | reform |
| disease that left FDR's legs paralyzed | polio |
| moves inauguration from March 3 to Jan. 20 | 20th Amendment |
| currency backed by gold, FDR takes US off | gold standard |
| banks closed to stop bank runs | bank holiday |
| first hundred days of FDR's administration, 15 pieces of major legislation | Hundred Days |
| included representatives from: New Nationalism, Anti Big Business, New Freedom | FDR's advisers |
| FDR's weekly addresses on the radio to American people | fireside chats |
| spending more than is brought in, used to fund New Deal programs | deficit spending |
| business and political leaders opposed to New Deal | American Liberty League |
| "Share our wealth program", income over $5 million confiscated and redistributed | Huey Long |
| called for government control of banks | Fr. Charles Coughlan |
| Proposed pension plan for workers over 60, $200, had to spend, and retire | Dr. Francis Townsend |
| NIRA unconstitutional, to much power for federal government, legislature cannot delegate its powers | Schecter v. US |
| neutral party issues ruling in a dispute | binding arbitration |
| organized industrial unions, Committee for Industrial Organization | CIO |
| organization of all workers in auto industry, United Auto Workers | UAW |
| Dem. FDR Rep. A. Landon, shift in voting base of Democratic party-women, minorities, progressives, and intellectuals | 1936 Election |
| Sec. of labor, first woman in cabinet | Frances Perkins |
| National Youth Commission, leader of "Black Cabinet" advisers to FDR | Mary McLeod Bethune |
| AAA unconstitutional, tax on one group to pay another | US v. Butler |
| FDR wanted to add a justice for each justice 70 and older maximum of 15 | court packing plan |
| economic decline, sudden rise in unemployment, 1937 | recession |
| Sec. of Treasury that wanted to balance the budget and cut spending | Henry Morganthau |
| economist that believed government spending would stimulate economic growth | John Maynard Keynes |
| subsidized loans to builders to buy blocks of slums and build low-cost housing | National Housing Act |
| established a minimum wage, maximum work week, abolished child labor | Fair Labor Standards Act |
| Federal government can regulate production within a state | NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel |
| Federal government can regulate consumption within a state | Wickard v. Filburn |
| mediating role of the federal government | broker state |
| government provided safeguards and relief programs to protect people from economic disaster | safety net |