Economic
This act, passed in 1933, aimed to restore public confidence in banks by regulating securities markets.
What is the Securities Act of 1933?
FDR’s attempt to expand the number of Supreme Court justices to prevent New Deal programs from being overturned was called this.
What is the Court Packing Plan?
This New Deal program employed artists, musicians, and writers to create murals, plays, and other forms of public art.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
This New Deal program built dams, provided electricity, and created jobs in the Tennessee Valley region.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
This FDR policy used radio broadcasts to directly address the American people and gain support for the New Deal.
What are the Fireside Chats?
The New Deal's labor policies helped create this influential organization that represented industrial workers.
What is the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)?
The government-funded this program to create jobs in public works projects like roads, schools, and bridges.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
Critics feared that New Deal programs gave too much power to this branch of government.
What is the Executive Branch?
This law banned child labor and established a minimum wage.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
This farming policy aimed to raise agricultural prices by reducing supply, but it controversially led to the destruction of crops and livestock.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
This 1935 Supreme Court case ruled that parts of the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) were unconstitutional.
What is Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States?
This policy aimed to restore Native American self-governance and preserve their culture.
What is the Indian New Deal?
This economic philosophy, which encouraged government spending to stimulate demand, was a foundation of the New Deal.
What is Keynesian economics?
FDR issued over this many executive orders during his presidency, raising concerns about the expansion of presidential power.
What is 3,700 executive orders?
Despite New Deal programs, these two marginalized groups still faced discrimination and exclusion from many relief efforts.
Who are African Americans and Mexican Americans?