This Act had 3 main programs: Social Insurance which provided retirement income; Public Assistance which provided aid for the aged, the blind, and dependent children; and Unemployment Insurance which provided temporary income for laid off workers.
What is the Social Security Act?
100
Running up a federal deficit to stimulate the economy
What is prime the pump?
100
Programs set up to get people working again.
What are alphabet agencies?
200
“We are the first nation in the history of the world to go to the poorhouse in an automobile.”
Who was Will Rogers?
200
Union Party candidate in 1936.
Who was William Lemke?
200
This Amendment to the Constitution repealed prohibition.
What was the Twenty-first Amendment?
200
A plan to get the New Deal through the courts.
What is court packing?
200
FDR’s reassuring radio talks to the American people.
What are fireside chats?
300
The “Kingfish” advocated a share-the-wealth program where every man would be a king.
Who was Huey Long?
300
Former social worker, became one of FDR’s closest advisers, headed up the Federal Emergency Relief Act, the CWA, and the WPA.
Who was Harry Hopkins?
300
This Act created Federal Deposit insurance corporation, which protected depositors in insured banks up to $5000.
What was the Glass-Steagall Act?
300
FDR’s attempt in the primary elections of 1938 to get rid of Southern Democratic conservatives.
What is purge?
300
This was a $5 billion program to provide work for the able-bodied unemployed.
What is the WPA - Works Progress Administration?
400
This radio priest attacked the New Deal from his church in Royal Oak, Michigan.
Who was Charles E. Coughlin?
400
English economist who favored increased federal spending to stimulate the economy.
Who was John Maynard Keynes?
400
This Amendment to the Constitution changed the day for the gathering of congress to January 3rd and the swearing in of the president to January 20th. This took care of having a lame duck present or a president who is doing nothing in the White House.
What is the Twentieth Amendment?
400
Labor’s Magna Carta.
What is the Wagner Act?
400
This protected depositors in insured banks up to $5,000. All members of the Federal Reserve System had to belong to the FDIC and other banks could join as well. It's purpose was to keep confidence in banks.
What is the FDIC - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
500
Wanted to give $200 a month to every man and woman over 60 provided that they spend the money.
Who was Francis Townsend?
500
Immigrants and their children, farmers and laborers, teachers, social workers, blacks, and reformers of many sorts.
Who was the “forgotten man” who gave his support to FDR?
500
It's purpose was to regulate the stock market to prevent abuses. It was given the power to 1)license and regulate stock exchanges, 2)require basic data on stocks and bonds offered, 3) regulate activities of investment advisers, and 4) prosecute persons engaged in fraud.
What is the SEC - Securities and Exchange Commission?
500
For about three months after FDR’s inauguration, Congress gave him almost everything he wanted.
What is hundred days?
500
This insured loans by banks, building and loan associations, and other private groups to homeowners for repair and to finance mortgages for new homes.