Challengers
This group believed FDR’s policies would destroy free enterprise.
Conservatives
This program created jobs building roads, schools, and bridges.
Works Progress Administration
This act provided pensions for the elderly and aid to the disabled.
Social Security Act
This president led the Second New Deal.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The New Deal greatly increased this level of power.
Federal Government Power
This group accused FDR of moving toward socialism.
Industrialists and Wealthy Americans
This program gave jobs specifically to young people.
National Youth Administration
This act strengthened labor unions and workers’ rights.
Wagner Act
This economist influenced New Deal spending ideas.
John Maynard Keynes
The New Deal made the government responsible for this.
Citizens Welfare
This plan proposed giving money to elderly Americans monthly.
Townsend Act
This agency supported artists, writers, and musicians.
Federal Project Number One
This board enforced fair labor practices.
National Labor Relations Board
This First Lady supported civil rights and women’s roles.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The New Deal helped reduce this major economic crisis.
The Great Depression
This program aimed to redistribute wealth to end poverty.
Shore our wealth program
This program funded relief through government spending.
Emergency Relief Appropriation act
This act set minimum wage and maximum work hours.
Fair Labor Standards act
This cabinet group advised FDR on African American issues.
Black Cabinet
Despite progress, this group still faced discrimination in jobs.
African Americans
This controversial plan attempted to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court Packing Plan
This program provided jobs for unemployed adults in large-scale projects.
WPA
This 1935 act reformed the banking system again.
Banking Act of 1935
This woman was the first female cabinet member under FDR.
Frances Perkins
The New Deal changed the idea that government should stay out of this.
The Economy