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Vocabulary
New Deal Programs
People
Acts
Mystery Questions
100
A leader who gains power by appealing to people's prejudices and fears rather than by appealing to reason.
What is Demagogue?
100
Paid farmers a subsidy to reduce the production of crops and the number of animals they raised.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration? (AAA)
100
Influential lady that went around the country promoting women's rights.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
100
Lent money to groups of farmers who organized to build power plants.
What is the Rural Electrification Act of 1935?
100
FDR suffered from this disease.
What is Polio?
200
Worker formed group, helped make progress for workers rights.
What is Unionization?
200
Constructed many of the facilities in state and national parks and worked to preserve the environment.
What is Civilian Conservation Corps? (CCC)
200
He wanted to put heavy taxes on the rich and to use the money to give every American family a house, a car, and a decent income
Who is Huey Long?
200
Relaxed the antitrust laws of the early 1900s and called for business leaders to confer and establish codes to set quality standards, production levels, prices, maximum work hours, minimum wage.
What is the National Industrial Recovery Act? (NIRA)
200
FDR informally addressing the people with frequent radio broadcasts.
What are Fireside Chats?
300
A temporary shutdown of operations, in effect closing all banks.
What is moratorium?
300
This program promoted hanging a poster of an Eagle to promote being part of this program.
What is National Recovery Administration? (NRA)
300
He criticized FDR on his radio show for not taking stronger action against bankers and rich investors. Appealed to people’s prejudices and fears.
Who is Father Coughlin?
300
Was created to protect investors from fraud in the stock market.
What is the Truth-in-Securities Act?
300
FDR failed to abolish this in order to keep the southern white voters happy.
What is the Poll Tax?
400
Term or 'slang' in this era for government charity.
What is Dole?
400
This program building schools and dams, refurbishing government buildings, planning sewage systems, improving highways, and modernizing the nation.
What is Public Works Administration? (PWA)
400
He proposed giving every American over age 60 a pension of $200 per month.
Who is Francis Townsend?
400
Regulated wages and working hours. This was the only New Deal law passed in 1938.
What is the Fair Labor Standard Act?
400
What the three R's stood for.
What is Relief, Reform, Recovery?
500
African-American advisers that worked with FDR.
What is the Black Cabinet?
500
Created dams that produced electricity and phosphate fertilizer.
What is the Tennessee Valley Authority? (TVA)
500
First women appointed to a presidential cabinet.
Who is Francis Perkins?
500
Program instituted pension and survivors' benefits for the elderly and orphaned and aid to individuals in industrial accidents.
What is the Social Security Act?
500
Went on strike to obtain raises for working tenant farmers and day laborers.
What is the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union?