Roosevelt
New Deal
Second New Deal
New Deal Ends
Vocab
100
Roosevelt depended on this person while he was recovering from polio
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
100
This program paid farmers not to grow certain crops
What is the AAA or Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
100
Schechter v. United States, Supreme Court struck down this
What is the NRA?
100
This gave tenant farmers loans so they could purchase their own farms
What is Farm Security Administration?
100
Closing banks before bank runs could put them out of business
What are bank holidays?
200
Period between March 9 and June 16, Congress passed 15 acts which were known as this
What is the Hundred Days?
200
This was set up to regulate the Stock Market
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission?
200
This set out to organize all skilled and unskilled workers in the automobile industry
What is the Committee for Industrial Organization?
200
This was the first woman to hold a cabinet post as Secretary of Labor
Who is Frances Perkins?
200
Government practice of abandoning a balanced budget and borrowing money to pay for programs
What is deficit spending?
300
Many people feared Roosevelt would abandon the gold standard and reduce the value of this
What is the dollar?
300
This act helped to solve the banking crisis by issuing licenses to banks that federal examiners found to be financially sound
What is the Emergency Banking Relief Act?
300
This funded the construction of highways, buildings, and parks
What is Works Progress Administration?
300
This act abolished child labor, limited work week to 44 hours and set the first minimum wage
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
300
Mediating role of the government to work out conflicts among the competing interest groups
What is broker state?
400
As governor of New York, Roosevelt oversaw creation of the first state relief agency to aid these people
Who were the unemployed?
400
This lengthened the mortgage repayment term and lowered rates for the unemployed
What is The Home Owner's Loan Corporation?
400
This assists older Americans and the unemployed
What is the Social Security Act?
400
This created the idea that Roosevelt was trying to interfere with the Separation of Powers and undermine the court's independence
What is the court-packing plan?
400
Roosevelt's policies during the Great Depression
What is New Deal?
500
Roosevelt triggered an economic downturn in 1937 by decreasing this
What is government spending?
500
This put 3 million young men to work outdoors
What is Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC?
500
This guaranteed workers the right to organize unions and to bargain collectively
What is the National Labor Relations Act?
500
These two acts were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
What is the AAA and the NRA?
500
Argument that the government should spend heavily during a recession
What is Keynesianism?
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