8T History 2015-16 Chapter 15
The New Deal
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- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
- an agency created in 1933 to insure individuals' bank accounts ($5000), protecting people against losses due to bank failures. (Now it's a $250,000 per name on an account)
- FDR BELIEVED THAT THE GOVERNMENT HAD WHAT OBLIGATION TO ITS CITIZENS?
- TO STEP IN AND HELP THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA GET BACK ON THEIR FEET.
- Unemployment numbers
- 13 million people unemployed 25% of the population out of work.
- Dr. Francis Townsend's take on New Deal
- Not doing enough to help the elderly and poor. A pension for the elderly.
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- established as part of the New Deal that put young unemployed men to work building roads, developing parks, planting trees, and helping in erosion-control and flood-control projects
- New Deal - what was designed to do?
- Get the US out of the Great Depression
- Gone with the Wind
- One of the most popular movies of all time
- Huey Long's take on New Deal?
- New Deal does not do enough. He wanted the government to redistribute wealth.
- Who is associated w/ Robin Hood theory
- Huey Long
- The Grapes of Wrath
- Novel about the lives of Oklahomans who left the Dust Bowl and ended up in California.
- What states benefited from TVA? Know at least three
- Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, and Ohio
- Fireside Chats
- Radio talks by FDR about public concern explaining in clear, simple language his New Deal measures.
- WPA
- Works Progress Administration Gave the unemployed work in building construction and arts programs
- Why did we need The New Deal?
- THE COUNTRY WAS A MESS. HOOVER WAS UNABLE TO STOP THE WAVE OF UNEMPLOYED AND RISING INFLATION.
- Social Security ACT (SSA)
- a law enacted in 1935 to provide aid to retirees, the unemployed, people with disabilities, and families with dependent children. (Old-age pensions, disability payments and unemployment benefits)
- TVA
- Tennessee Valley Authority Federal project to provide inexpensive electric power, flood control, and recreational opportunities to the Tennessee River Valley
- What two Alphabet Agencies did the Supreme Court Unconstitutional?
- Supreme Court- Found NIRA and AAA both unconstitutional
- Father Coughlin's take on New Deal?
- New Deal does not do enough wanted the government to do more. Share our wealth program
- Wagner Act
- Law passed in 1935 that aided unions by legalizing collective bargaining and closed shops, and by establishing the National Labor Relations Board
- 3R what does Reform mean?
- To change the system
- Deficit spending
- The government's spending more money than it receives in revenue
- 21 Amendment
- Repealed prohibition of Alcohol
- Eleanor Roosevelt - How did she help the president?
- She worked to help the poor and helped women gain positions in the government.
- Sit down strike
- Labor protest in which laborers stop working but refuse to leave the workplace
- Court Packing Bill
- Fearing that further Court Decisions might dismantle the New Deal FDR proposed that congress enact a court-reform bill to reorganize the federal judiciary and allow him to appoint six new Supreme Court Justices.
- FDR elected 1st time in what year?
- 1932
- Radio Orson Welles
- An actor, director, producer, and writer, created one of the most renowned radio broadcasts of all time, "The War of the Worlds"
- New Deal - Whose idea?
- FDR
- When was THE SECOND NEW DEAL?
- IT WAS AFTER THE 1ST 100 DAYS - the president call on congress to provide more extensive relief for both farmers and workers.
- Works Progress Administration-
- an agency, established as part of the Second New Deal that provided the unemployed with jobs in construction, garment making, teaching, the arts, and other fields
- Why was The Liberty League opposed to New Deal?
- It was scared of Roosevelt's actions
- Labor Union
- an organization of workers formed for the purpose of serving the members' interests with respect to wages and working conditions.
- FDR wins re-election in what year?
- 1936
- The Hundred Days
- A period of intense activity launched by the Roosevelt administration where the federal government role in the nation's economy was expanded. Congress passed more than 15 major pieces of New Deal legislation.
- 3R what does Recovery mean?
- Build the country back up with the Alphabet programs
- Liberty League's take on New Deal?
- New Deal does too much, called the New Deal Communism
- Collective bargaining
- Negotiation between organized workers and their employer or employers to determine wages, hours, rules, and working conditions.
- Clark Gable
- Actor who starred in the Movie Gone with the Wind.
- Fair Labor Standards Act
- This set a national minimum hourly wage and a maximum number of hours in the workweek and prohibited factory labor for Children under sixteen years of age.
- Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
- A law enacted in 1933 to raise crop prices by paying farmers to leave a certain amount of their land unplanted, thus lowering production.
- 2 ways people tried to escape during the Great Depression
- Movies and Radio
- SEC
- Securities and Exchange Commission. Monitored the stock market and protected investors against dishonest trading practices an agency, created in 1934, enforces laws regulating the sale of stocks and bonds
- List the 3 R's of the New Deal
- Relief, Recovery and Reform
- NIRA National Industrial Recovery Act (What the Supreme Court said what about it)
- a law enacted in 1933 to establish codes of fair practice for industries and to promote industrial growth The Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional
- Frances Perkins
- FDR appointed her Secretary of labor America's first female cabinet member.
- Mary McLeod Bethune
- FDR hired her to head the Division of Negro Affairs of the National Youth Administration and adviser to the President on minority affairs.
- 3R what does Relief mean?
- Provide direct help to the people $$$/Jobs
- 4 critics of FDR
- Liberty League, Huey Long, Father Coughlin, Dr. Francis Townsend
- Music Woody Guthrie
- Musician and radio personality wrote songs about the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression. "This Land is your Land"
- Eleanor Roosevelt - Who was she?
- The first lady who traveled the country observing social conditions and monitoring the suffering of the people.
- THE NEW DEAL was also called
- THE ALPHABET PROGRAMS
- Why did WWII help end the Depression?
- The government controlled the supply and demand. The government brought factories back up to war time production levels stimulating the economy.