PEOPLE
He led the Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Who is Harry Hopkins?
Minimum wage under the Fair Labor Standards Act
What is 25 cents?
What is the Emergency Banking Act?
Daytime dramas
What are soap operas?
Lame Duck
What is the nickname for the 20th amendment?
He ran against Franklin Roosevelt in 1936.
Who is Alfred M. Landon
Amount of electoral votes FDR received in 1936
What is 523?
Another name for the Revenue Act of 1935
What is the Wealth Tax Act?
Period of slow business activity
What is recession?
Laborers stop working but refuse to leave the building
What is a sit-down-strike?
She sat in the aisle that separated the white people from the African Americans at the Southern Conference for Human Welfare
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
The amount of days FDR closed banks in order to get his Emergency Banking Act passed
What is four?
Out of this came 100,000 paintings 17,000 sculptures and many other works of art
What is the Federal Art Project?
Non-union substitute workers
What is a scab?
Regular radio announcements made by FDR
What are fireside chats?
He was president of the United Mine Workers
Who is John L. Lewis?
The age you can start receiving Social Security payments
What is 65?
It established the FDIC to insure bank deposits
What is the Glass-Steagall Banking Act of 1933?
An alliance of groups with similar goals
What is a coalition?
These groups were not favored by the New Deal
What are minorities and woman?
He wrote the Grapes of Wrath
Who is John Steinbeck?
The amount of murals painted in public buildings under the Federal Are Project.
This Act set the minimum under what most people were making
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
Paying out more money from the annual federal budget than the government receives in revenues
What is deficit spending?
August 1937
What is when the economy collapsed again?
First female Secretary of Labor
Who is Frances Perkins?
The percentage of unionized workers by 1945
What is 36%?
Legalized collective bargaining and equipped companies to bargain with union representatives
What is the Wagner Act?
Leaders who manipulate people with half truths
What are demagogues?
Required companies to provide info about their finances if they were selling stock
What is the Federal Securities Act?
First African American women to be appointed to a cabinet position
Who is Mary Mcleod Bethune?
The National Debt rose by this amount due to the New Deal between 1933 and 1940
What is 22 million dollars?
Refinanced mortgages to make the payments more manageable
What is the Home Owners Loan Corporation Act?
Total amount of money the government borrows and has to pay back
What is the National Debt?
Raymond Moley, Adolf Berle and Rexford Tugwell
Who are FDR brain trust group?
He ran for governor of California as a democrat
Who is Upton Sinclair?
The amount of income earned to be taxed more according to the Revenue Act of 1935
What is 50,000
Put the unemployed to work building/improving roads, parks, airports, etc.
What is the Civil Works Administration?
Employers paid taxes. Government distributed the money to workers who lost their jobs.
What is Unemployment Insurance?
Lent money to owners of small farms
What is the Resettlement Administration?