FDR's Plan
The 3 R's of the New Deal:
Relief, Reform, Recovery
To restore public faith in the banks after banks closed causing depositors to lose everything, this New Deal program to insure bank accounts up to $250K in the event of a bank failure was created. What was it called?
FDIC (Federal Insurance Deposit Corporation)
Conservatives (like Hoover) or Leftists (like Long) felt the New Deal gave the government too much power and authority over people's everyday lives. (The gov't was doing too much)
Conservatives
This Act made it illegal to fire a worker for being a part of a labor union (this law was loved by poor workers) and is not named after another social studies teacher at Woodlawn
Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act)
What were FDR's speeches over the radio to the American people called?
Fireside Chats
"We have nothing to fear, but fear itself" is an excerpt from FDR's first inauguration address. To reduce panic on the banking industry, FDR did what to all banks in the early days of his Presidency
Closed them
This organization was struck down by the Supreme Court which originally provided subsidies to farmers to not grow crops in order to artificially raise prices of crops.
AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration)
Unequal distribution of economic aid (jobs, clothing, cash, etc.) was a problem of the New Deal that mostly affected what community of Americans?
African-Americans
Dr. Townsend advocated for a law to help the elderly. What law and program is still in effect today to provide aid to the elderly/retired
Social Security Act
Unofficially led by Mary McLeod Bethune, this group of advisors consulted with FDR regarding Civil Rights laws and programs to help Black-Americans in the Great Depression
Black Cabinet
What was the point of closing the banks?
To check which banks could be "saved"
This organization employed young men, mostly saw them work in National Parks and the west was nicknamed the "Tree Army"
CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)
Huey Long
New Deal gave more or less power to the federal government over the everyday lives of American citizens
More
Undocumented workers were mostly made up of Latino Migrant Farmers in Southern California. They struggled to gain access to New Deal programs. The activist who started his own Spanish speaking radio station to raise awareness to the struggles of the Latino population is named:
Pedro J. Gonzalez
Unlike his predecessor, FDR believed the government should or should not be involved and responsible for the state of the economy and to aid struggling American people?
Should
This New Deal program employed people for public construction projects like airports and roads. It also employed artists to make murals for cities and employed writers to interview and record interviews of former enslaved men and women.
WPA (Works Progress Administration)
After the Supreme Court rejected the AAA, FDR tried to pass a "Court Packing" Bill. It was rejected but what would the Court Packing Bill have done had it been enacted?
Allow FDR to create 6 more spots for justices on the Supreme Court
True or False: FDR was Laissez-Faire
False
The 21st Amendment was passed in 1933 and did what?
Repealed the 18th Amendment (Ended Prohibition)
The trusted advisors of FDR to create and execute a New Deal Plan were called:
The Brain Trust
This organization employed thousands of unemployed people in the South to build hydro-electric dams to provide jobs to the unemployed and provide cheap electricity to rural southerners
TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
Over the radio, this priest from Detroit advocated for the nationalization of banks since he felt they could not be trusted. He also blamed the Jewish People for conspiring to make the Depression happen
Father Coughlin
An example of Reform would be the creation of the stock cops known as (blank) to make sure there is no insider trading on the stock market (hint: it shares a name with a college football conference)
SEC (Security and Exchange Commission)
Name of the disease that FDR kept secret from the American public
Polio