Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the radio to communicate with American people.
What are fireside chats?
100
Employed 8.5 million Americans and built roads, subways, airports, and zoos. Funded artists, workers, composers, and actors.
What is the Works Progress Administration?
100
A plan to put judges that were friends of FDR on the Supreme Court, which resulted in FDR loosing his supporters.
What was the Court-packing Plan?
100
This established a minimum wage someone could pay a worker. It also set the maximum hours a week for a worker.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
100
This gave farmers a subsidy.
What was the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
200
FDR's wife (and distant relative) that deeply valued her opinion and she was his "eyes and ears" during his bout with polio.
Who was Eleanor Roosevelt?
200
He believed FDR was too friendly with banks and businesses. Created the Share Our Wealth Society.
Who was Senator Huey P. Long?
200
She recorded images of the Depression sufferers in her hometown of San Francisco.
Who was Dorothea Lange?
200
World War II caused the end of this period of time.
What is the Great Depression?
200
The government spends more that it makes or brings in.
What is the definition of deficit?
300
Hired men from the ages eighteen to twenty-five to work on conservation projects such as planting trees and improving parks.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corp?
300
A radio priest who began attacking FDR and Jewish figures on his radio program. The Catholic Church forced him to end his radio program.
Who was Father Charles Coughlin?
300
This aided some of the nation's poorest such as tenant farmers and sharecroppers.
What is the Farm Tenancy Act?
300
People were paid at a rate of time and a half if they did this.
What is overtime pay?
300
A supporter of FDR that argued that deficit spending could provide jobs and stimulate economy.
Who was John Maynard Keynes?
400
FDR's law that gave government officials the power to examine all banks, determine it's situation, and take steps to correct problems.
What is the Emergency Banking Act?
400
Monthly payments taken out of your paycheck.
What is social security?
400
She became the first woman to ever head an executive department. She served as a Secretary of Labor.
Who was Francis Perkins?
400
A reform that insured peoples bank accounts.
What is the FDIC?
400
FDR worried that people will begin to rely on the government for jobs so he shut down this program.
What is the Civil works Administration?
500
This provided relief for those suffering the effects of the Great Depression, recovery of the depressed economy, and reforms to help prevent economic crises again.
What is the New Deal?
500
Farmworkers, household workers, government employees were left out of this.
What is social securities?
500
He became the first African-American to be appointed as a federal judge.
Who was William Haste?
500
This was the most successful jobs relief program in all of history. Built many public building which opened up more jobs.
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
500
The hours in this act were changed from forty-four to forty.
How much is the change in hours that the Fair Labor Standards Act had?