FDR's Background
What is the disease that left FDR paralyzed?
What is polio?
Creates a financial safety net for the elderly and unemployed.
What is Social Security?
This is the first thing FDR does as president to stop the recent rash of bank runs.
What is declares a bank holiday?
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 "The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself?"
FDR's political party
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)?
How are FDR and Teddy Roosevelt related?
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)?
Which branch of government is the president apart of?
What is the executive branch?
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 WWII?
This is the year that FDR first gets elected as president.
What is 1932?
Pays farmers to not grow certain crops or certain livestock.
Was later found to be unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)?
Democrat who is the most serious threat to FDR’s presidency. He was later assassinated.
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 is protect/fix/help the economy?
What office did FDR hold before he became president that properly prepared him for the job?
What is the governor of New York?
This insures cash deposits in banks in case of bank failure.
What is the FDIC?
FDR’s favorite New Deal agency.
Creates jobs to conserve nature.
The biggest thing people feared about the court packing plan.
What is the president gaining too much power?
MUST ANSWER ALL THREE!
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
1. 9 justices
2. appointed by the president
3. for life OR until they choose to resign