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Introduced the:
Model T car
Assembly Line
$5.00 a day wage
Wanted to create a car affordable for the common man
Who is Henry Ford??
wanted to improve working conditions, more government regulation of business, women's suffrage, end to child labor, and election reform
What is the progressive party?
Gave the president the power to regulate banking transactions and foreign exchange and to reopen solvent banks in order to inflate the economy.
What is the Emergency Banking Relief Act (1933)?
a collective group of American and European artists and writers who settled in Paris in the 1920's and 1930's
What is "The Lost Generation"?
intended both for industrial recovery and for unemployment relief.
Headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, it aimed at long-range recovery by spending over $4 billion on some 34,000 projects that included public buildings, highways, and parkways (i.e. the Grand Coulee Dam of the Columbia River).
What is the Public Works Administration?
a novelist, story writer, play wright and essayist, wrote "Grapes of Wrath"
Who is John Steinbeck?
people's response to liberalism in late 19th and early 20th century
-Passionately against modernist/liberal theology
Who are fundamentalists?
FLSA, Federal Law that established certain minimum requirements for employee's hours, wages, premium overtime, and payroll records.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
many families lost their homes because they could not pay their mortgages. These people had no choice but to seek alternative forms of shelter. They were named after President Hoover, who was blamed for the problems that led to the depression, sprung up throughout the United States.
What is "Hoovervilles"?
Provided job training for unemployed young people and part-time jobs for needy students
What is the National Youths Administration?
A New York social worker who headed the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Civil Works Administration. He helped grant over 3 billion dollars to the states wages for work projects, and granted thousands of jobs for jobless Americans.
Who is Harry Hopkins?
in the 1920's was a term applied to a "new breed" of young Western women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz.
What is flappers?
Created NRA to enforce codes of fair competition, minimum wages, and to permit collective bargaining of workers.
What is the National Industrial Recovery Act ("The Blue Eagle")?
campaign theme of Warren Harding during the election of 1920 it reflected the conservative mood of the country after the constant appeals to idealism that characterized both the progressive era and Wilson's fight over the League of Nations
What is the "Return to Normalcy"?
Helped states to provide aid for the unemployed
What is the Federal Emergency Relief Administration?
wife of FDR, very important woman political figure, as much a politician as FDR
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
an early New Deal program designed to assist industry, labor, and the unemployed through centralized planning mechanisms that monitored workers' earnings and working hours to distribute work and established codes for "fair competition" to ensure that similar procedures were followed by all firms
What is the NRA?
encourages workers or employees to:
formally organize a union,
and to engage in the collective bargaining process
What is the Norris-Laguardia Act?
single engine plane in which Lindberg made the first transatlantic flight
What is "Spirit of St. Louis"?
A New Deal agency created to generate electric power and control floods in a seven-U.S.-state region around the Tennessee River Valley . It created many dams that provided electricity as well as jobs.
What is Tennessee Valley Authority?
Louisiana Governor that wanted to help underprivileged people by improving education, medical care, and public services. developer of the "Share-Our-Wealth" program. limited personal income to $1 million, and inheritance to $5 million
Who is Huey Long aka "Kingfish"
provided loans for building power plants, extending power lines to rural areas, and wiring homes 1935
What is Rural Electrification Administration?
Allowed workers to join unions and outlawed union-busting tactics by management.
What is the Wagner Act (1935)?
This was the program proposed by Senator Huey P. Long from Louisiana, one of the demagogues that appeared during the winter of 1933-1934. The program promised to make "Every Man a King." Every family was to receive $5,000, supposedly at the expense of the prosperous.
What is "Share the Wealth"?
put people directly on the federal payroll to repair roads, paint schools, rake leaves, and build playgrounds
What is the Civil Works Administration?