FDR's Background
The name of the disease that paralyzed FDR
What is polio?
New Deal program that creates a financial safety net for the elderly and unemployed.
What is Social Security?
The first thing FDR does as president to stop the recent rash of bank runs.
What is declare a bank holiday/close the banks?
The name of FDR’s plan to end the Great Depression.
What is the New Deal?
FDR’s famous quote regarding peoples emotions during the Great Depression. It comes from his inauguration speech.
What is "We have nothing to fear but fear itself?"
What party did FDR belong to?
What is Democrat?
Largest public works agency.
Hires 8.5 million workers.
Very active in the Texas Panhandle.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
What is the name of the era when FDR is president?
What is the Great Depression?
The amount of days at the beginning of FDR’s presidency where he passes an incredibly large amount of legislation.
What is the First 100 Days?
New Deal agency that regulates the stock market and prevents fraud.
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
FDR defeated this president in the 1932 election.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
Public works agency that builds dams and electrical systems in rural areas that have never had electricity before.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
The president is the ___________ branch of the U.S. government.
What is executive?
Speeches that FDR would give through the radio straight into family’s living rooms.
What are fireside chats?
The New Deal ends because FDR had to focus his attention on this.
What is threats from Germany and Japan?
OR
What is the beginning of WWII?
How is FDR related to Teddy Roosevelt?
What is they are cousins?
Pays farmers to not grow certain crops or certain livestock.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)?
Democrat who is the most serious threat to FDR’s presidency.
Share Our Wealth
Every Man A King
Who is Huey Long?
FDR’s plan to add 6 more judges to the Supreme Court to uphold New Deal legislation.
What is the court-packing plan?
What is the government’s role in the economy since the New Deal?
What protect/fix/help economy?
What is New York?
Insures cash deposits in banks in case of bank failure.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
FDR’s favorite New Deal agency.
Creates jobs to conserve nature.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)?
The biggest thing people feared about the court packing plan.
This answer is flexible.
What is
Violation checks and balances
Violating separation of powers
President getting too much power?
MUST ANSWER ALL 3.
1. How many justices serve on the Supreme Court
2. How do they get their job?
3. How long do they serve for?
What is 9, appointed by the President, and for life?