10th History Chapter 18
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- Roosevelt went on the radio weekly; very well-liked
- Fireside Chats
- When Roosevelt was governor of NY this was his group of professors trying to get NY out of the Depression
- Brain Trust
- first 100 days he was in office, Roosevelt created many of his new programs
- hundred days
- 1st female cabinet member (Secretary of Labor)
- Frances Perkins
- stated that banks couldn't invest in the stock market
- Glass Steagall Act
- formed by Congress to insure deposits up to $5000; it is $100,000 today
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
- regulated the stock market
- Securities and Exchange Comission (SEC)
- public spending to stimulate private industry and the economy to create jobs
- Pump Priming
- sent funds to depleting local relief agencies- within 2 hours $5 mil was given out; also funded public work programs
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
- launched projects such as the Grand Coolee Dam on the Columbia River
- Public Works Assosiation (PWA)
- gave the unemployed jobs building or repairing roads, parks, airports, etc.
- Civil Works Admin. (CWA)
- helped farmers and created jobs; built dams
- Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
- put 2.5 unmarried men to work maintaining and restoring forests, beaches, and parks; $1 per day but got free board and job training; created a similar one for women; had to send $25 back home
- Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC)
- raised farm prcies, paid farmers not to raise specific crops and animals; lower production raised farm prices
- Agricultural Adjustment Admin. (AAA)
- ended sale of tribal lands and restored ownership of unallocated lands to Native American groups
- Indian Reorganization Act
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boosted declining prices, allowed trade assossiations in many industries to write codes regulating wages, working conditions, production, and prices
-set a minimum wage
-blue eagle was the symbol - National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
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radio priest had 30 million listeners each week
-put a 2% sales tax on items
-he attacked capitalism and bankers-blaming them for depression
-esp. blamed Jews
-started the National Union for Social Justice - Charles Coughlin
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known as kingfish
-Share our wealth society
-Every man is a king
-No one would be hungry or poor
-guarantee every Am. a minimum income of $2500 - Huey Long
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-plan to pay $200 every month to every Am. over the age of 60 and they would have to spend the money in a few weeks
-developed a following of 5 mil. - Francis Townsend
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-provided work to 8 mil. Americans
-constructed or repaired schools, hospitals, airfields, etc.
-gave writers, artists, and actors jobs - Works Progress Admin. (WPA)
- -est. a system that provided old-age pensions for workers, survivors benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment insurance, and aid for mothers and children, the blind and physically disabled
- Social Security Act
- legalized closed shops in which only union members could work
- Wagner Act
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banned child labor and set minimum wage
-$0.40 an hour - Fair Labor Standards Act
- led by Harold Ickes; advised the pres. on issues important to Af. Am
- Black Cabinet
- shut down all banks in US until they could probe they were solvent; "banking holiday"; majority of banks re-opened in 3 days
- Emergency Banking Act
- gave pres. authority to appoint one new justice for every sittin gjustice who had reached the age of 70 and failed to retire-could apopint up to 15 judges
- Court Packing
- black educator-appointed to the advisory committee of National Youth Admin.
- Mary Mcleod Behune
- directed the complex programs of the NIRA
- National Recovery Admin.
- loaned more than $1 bil. to farms and set up camps for immigrant workers
- Farm Security Admin. (FSA)
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believed government interference was dangerous and step towards socialism
-person and property rights of individuals
-right of government enterprise w/o government interference - American Liberty League