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FDR & New Deal
New Deal
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FDR personal life
100

A group of well educated advisors to President Roosevelt.

What is the Brain Trust?

100
It was the practice of closing banks before bank runs could put them out of business.
What is bank holidays?
100

The law assisting older Americans and the unemployed.

What is Social Security Act?

100

The amendment that got rid of prohibition (the 18th amendment)

What is the 21st Amendment?

100

He is an Alumni of this famous "chaser" school

Harvard Univeristy

200
The law that prohibited commercial banks from speculating on the stock market.
What is Glass-Steagall Act?
200
Roosevelt's policies during the Great Depression were known as
What is the New Deal?
200
FDR's first major mistake when he tried to interfere with the Constitution's separation of powers and undermine the Court's independence.
What is court-packing plan?
200

The long 4 month period between a presidential election and the inauguration of the new President.

What is Interregnum?

200

The place of FDR's birth

Hyde Park

300

Roosevelt's method of speaking directly to the people, explaining new laws, changes to the country, and informing people of what they can do to help ease the Great Depression.

What is Fireside Chats?

300
This New Deal Program brought electricity to Tennessee.
What is the TVA
300

The law that gave workers a minimum wage, 40 hour work week, and better working conditions.

What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?

300

The first female Labor Secretary who helped give workers a 40 hour work week, better conditions, and a minimum wage.

Who is Francis Perkins?

300

Was elected to Senate this year

1910

400
It put 3 million young men to work outdoors.
What is Civilian Conservation Corps?
400

A policy which stated banks have to insure customer deposits up to $2,500, even after a economic crash.

What is the FDIC?

400

An act that banned the policy of Americanization, and allowed Native Americans to form tribal governments. 

What is the Indian Reorganization Act?

400
The government practice of abandoning a balanced budget and borrowing money to pay for programs.
What is deficit spending?
400

He was a(n) ____ blank student, yet he managed to graduate a year early

He was an average student, yet he managed to graduate a year early

500
The period between March 9 and June 16, 1933, when Congress passed 15 major acts to meet an economic crisis.
What is the Hundred Days?
500
A program that paid farmers not to grow certain crops, such as cotton, corn, wheat, and tobacco.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
500

A law that gave workers the right to form unions so they could fight for better wages and working conditions.

What is the National Labor Relations Act?

500

A law that took the country off the gold standard, increasing the value of the dollar.

What is the Emergency Banking Act?

500

FDR was __ when he became one of teh Senators of New York

FDR was 28 when he became one of teh Senators of New York