FDR turned to large-scale spending to counter this.
What is the Roosevelt recession?
100
This took place immediatly following FDR's first inaugeration.
When did the first "hundred days" take place?
100
This was the purpose of the WPA (Workers Progress Administration).
What is to provide work for the able-bodied unemployed.
100
The ratification of the Twentieth Amendment.
The ratification of which Amendment decreased the time between election and inaugeration from 4 months to about 1-1/2?
200
This Act reformed the banking system by creating the FDIC, building trust for potential depositors.
What is the Glass-Steagall Act?
200
Congress didn't like how FDR attempted to reform the Supreme Court.
How was FDR's relation with Congress soured early in his second term?
200
It was made up of a misture of politicians, leaders, and friends.
What type of people did FDR select for his first cabinet?
200
This was an acronym for being neither rich nor successful.
What is the "Forgotten Man"?
200
FDR permitted the Federal Deficit to rise.
What was one unpopular way FDR felt was necessary to restore the economy?
300
This Act helped raise the income of farmers by limiting production of wheat, corn, cotton, hogs, tobacco, and milk.
What is the Agriculture Adjustment Act?
300
Senator Huey Long from Louisiana.
Who was the Senator from the Left who used the radio to attack FDR in 1935?
300
A call for a special session of Congress, proposed a bank Holiday, and presented an emergency banking bill.
What are some of FDR's first actions as President?
300
It provided old-age insurance, public assistance, and unemployment insurance.
What is the Social Security Act?
300
The ever-normal granary.
What was the practice called when farm products were put in storage in times of surplus and released in times of scarcity?
400
This Act established a minimum wage of .25 cents an hour to those employees working for the government or for a company doing work for the government.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
400
Father Charles E. Couphlin.
Who was the priest who initially believed in the New Deal but later opposed it because FDR didn't go along with his way if thinking.
400
It was intended as a partership between government and business.
What was the intention of FDR's National Industrial Recovery Act?
400
It declared that the NRA was unconstitutional.
What was the Schechter vs. United States?
400
This was consistant with Keynesian economics.
What is a tax decrease during a recession?
500
To provide work for the able-bodied unemployed.
What was the purpose of the Works Progress Administration or the WPA?
500
It was called "court packing".
When FDR tried to increase the number of Justices from 9 to 15 unless they retired at the age of 70, without consulting his cabinet or the Democratic leaders?
500
This was the Democtratic platform of the 1936 election.
What is to protect the family and home, establish a democracy of opportunity for all, and to aid those overtaken by disaster?
500
The American people objected to FDR's interference in local elections.
How did the American people react to FDR's attempted "purge" of conservative Democrates in 1938?
500
By these two acts, FDR proved that he could be ruthless.
What is, his attempt to "pack" the court and when he tried to purge his party?