FDR's Alphabet Soup
This law supported workers organizing into unions to fight for better working conditions
National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)
This figure believed FDR should have taken over the banks
Fr. Charles Coughlin
This illness crippled Franklin Roosevelt for much of his adult life
Polio (polio virus)
Many businesses experienced this, leading to their collapse
Bankruptcy
This American photographer documented the suffering of Americans in the Great Plains impacted by the Dust Bowl
This law gave a pension to retired persons, and eventually needy children and disabled people
Social Security Act
This figure believed the Great Depression could be helped by giving a pension to every American over the age of 60, as long as they spent it
Francis Townsend
This method of communication brought FDR into the homes of millions of Americans during his time in office
Fireside chats
A cause of the Great Depression, this caused many products to decrease in value because there were so many of them
Overproduction
This American novelist wrote of Americans leaving the Great Plains seeking a better life in the midst of the Great Depression in his famous novel
John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath
This law, struck down famously by the Supreme Court, tried to control prices by raising them in order to improve employment and buying power
National Recovery Administration
This Louisiana Senator and New Deal critic argued that the wealthy should be taxed and this money given to the poor, and that would end the Depression
Huey Long
FDR achieved this feat, something no President has ever achieved before or since: being elected President this many times?
Four times (1932, 1936, 1940, 1944)
This was the start of the Great Depression
This occurred when stock owners couldn't afford to pay the stocks they had purchased, leading the stock market to collapse
over speculation
This law gave jobs to unemployed young men in the great American outdoors working to build new trees, reservoirs, canals and parks.
Civilian Conservation Corps
This was FDR's response when the Supreme Court ruled that some of his New Deal policies were unconstitutional
Court packing: He tried to expand the size of the Supreme Court to make it more friendly to his policies
Explain the quote from a person after FDR's death: "I didn't know the President, but the President knew me."
People felt connected and bonded with FDR because of his empathy, political popularity, easy way of communicating with the American people
This group of Americans was particularly harmed by the Great Depression as they were promised money they never received
This federal agency protected people's money in the bank, and it still exists to this very day
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
This agency helped repair and build public buildings, roads, bridges, and airports
Works Progress Administration
Describe Pres. Herbert Hoover's response to the Great Depression
He believed charity and the states should deal with the Great Depression, not the federal government
Explain the quote from FDR in his first term: "If I don't succeed, I will be our last President"
This event was a weather disaster that hit the Great Plains states in the midst of the Great Depression
The Dust Bowl
Lend Lease Act/lend lease program
Giving weapons/money to our allies who were fighting in WWII so the U.S. wouldn't become involved.