History Final Exam
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- NLRB/ national labor relations board
- inforced legality of union activities
- Second New Deal
- series of laws that are more aggresive, included more social welfare programs, strict controls on big buisness, greater support of labor unions and higher taxes for rich
- boondoggle
- unnecissary projects that government sponsered to create jobs
- American Liberty League
- group of rich conservative republicans who said the New Deal was unconstitutional and close to communism
- FDIC/ federal deposit insurance corporation
- guaranteed people wouldn't loose savings if bank failed
- Kingfish
- what Huey Long has himself referred to as
- sit-down strike
- new form of striking where workers remained in the plant but not working
- NIRA/ national industrial recovery act
- new deal laws aimed at inproving economy by raising industrial prices, eventually declared unconstitutional by the supremem court
- Wagner Act
- "NLBA", introduced by Robert Wagner, leagilized union activities, collective bargaining, anti-union activities became illegal
- Charles Coughlin
- catholic priest who used his weekly radio programs to become more political and attack the new deal, socialist, very much like Hitler
- REA/ rural electrification administration
- built powerplants, utility polls, homes needed to be wired, employed lots of people
- harry hopkins
- director of FERA, advisor & friend to president, directed distribution of funds to state and local relief agencies
- PWA/ public works administration
- provided large scale projects like bridges, hydro-facilities
- Alfred E smith
- leader of American Liberty League
- John L Lewis
- long-time labor leader who organized and led the first important unskilled workers labor union, called in to represent union during sit-down strike
- demagogues
- politicians who told half-truths and made empty promises to win people over
- CIO/ congress of Industrial organizations
- first nation-wide labor union for unskilled workers
- flint
- place where the most important strike of the 30s took place
- CWA/civil works administration
- makes jobs for small scale temporary projects, eventually employed 4 million +
- HOLC/ home owners loan corporation
- tried to prevent losing homes and farms by refinancing homes for lower payments and interest rates
- FERA/ federal emergency relief association
- give the money to state and local agencies to distribute out, direct relief
- black cabinet
- group of black Americans that informally advised FDA in issues faced by African Americans in the depression
- Mary McCleod Bethune
- advisor to FDR who gathered a group of blacks, advised prez on issues involving black youth, worked to organize black leaders in favor of New Deal
- SSA/ social security administration
- provided old-age pensions, disability payments, unemployment benifits
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- francis townsend
- created a plan to pay the elderly of America $200 a month, except they had to spend all of it every month
- FHA/ federal housing administration
- aimed to stabalize housing market by helping people finance new homes, created improved housing conditions
- SEC/ securities and exchange commision
- restored faith in the stock market
- NYA/ national youth administration
- worked to employ youth ages 17-25, helped them to get a high school education and some sense of fun
- TVA/ tenesse valley authority
- created thousands of jobs while bringing electricity and a modern strandard of living to one of the most poverished areas of the country
- Alf Landon
- Kansas governor who ran as republican against FDR and lost by a landslide
- AAA/ agricultural adjustment administration
- raised farm prices by reducing surplus, paid farmers to not grow as much as they could
- court paking scheme
- when roosevelt plans to appoint 6 more people to the court
- Huey Long
- state politician in Louisiana, governor who begins acting like a dictator, becomes both governor and senator, has a "share the wealth" plan
- CCC/ civilian conservation corps
- put millions of young men to work on environmental projects
- NRA/ national recovery administration
- wanted to balance economy by regulating buisness and labor practices, sign was blue eagles
- WPA/ works progress administration
- founded creative works of artists and writers, theaters projects and sculptures