Key Terms
These were a series of informal radio addresses Franklin Roosevelt made to the nation in which he explained New Deal initiatives.
What are fireside chats?
He was the author of The Grapes of Wrath, which tells the story of a family of Great Plains farmers seeking a better life
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
Due to Herbert Hoover's lack of response to the depression, people referred to encampments by the impoverished in public spaces as these.
What are Hoovervilles?
This was established to reimburse banking customers if their banks failed.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
By 1939, FDR said this is where the government should focus spending in his State of the Union address.
What is defense?
These were impoverished farmers and migrant workers who fled the Dust Bowl for California seeking work.
What are "Okies"?
He was a groundbreaking economist whose theory suggested that only the national government has the ability to recover a struggling economy.
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
These farmers did not benefit from the AAA because they did not own the land they farmed.
What are tenant farmers (sharecroppers)?
The Securities Exchange Commission was created to regulate this.
What is Wall Street?
The Production Code of 1930 required films all include this moral lesson.
What is "crime doesn't pay"?
This was a law proposed by Franklin Roosevelt to add one new Supreme Court justice for each existing judge who had served for ten years and who was over the age of 70.
Who is court packing plan?
This politician from Louisiana advocated for the poor over the rich but was assassinated in 1935.
Who is Huey Long?
This New Deal program that provided government-funded public works jobs to millions of unemployed Americans
What is the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
This government organization was created to encourage business cooperation in New Deal goals.
What is the National Recovery Administration (NRA)?
During the 1930s, this party took the reigns on fighting racism and segregation in the South.
What is the Communist Party?
When factories and farmers produce more than people can buy, causing factories to lay off workers and farmers to lose money.
What is underconsumption?
This physician advocated for an Old Age Revolving Pension to provide income for the elderly.
Who is Dr. Charles Townshend?
This is primary way the Agricultural Adjustment Act addressed crop surpluses and prices.
What is paying farmers to leave part of their land unplanted?
Corporations were encouraged to cooperate with New Deal programs in exchange for this.
What is relaxed antitrust regulations?
This federal relief program that provided jobs on conservation projects to millions of unemployed workers.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
This was a federal corporation established to bring electricity to rural Americans in the southeast.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority?
She became the head of the Division of Negro Affairs at the National Youth Association, the highest ranking Black official in the Roosevelt administration
Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
Farmers became active resistors to depression symptoms by having these, in which farmers would not take their produce to market in order to raise prices.
What are "crop holidays"?
These were the two biggest successes of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
What is an end to child labor and a federal minimum wage?
The four key points of the New Deal were that all plans must be capitalist, deal with underconsumption, balance out corporations against the government and small business, and address this.
What is the wealth gap?