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100

Before he was President Roosevelt served as ______ of this state ______

Governor or New York

100
This program paid farmers not to grow certain crops
What is the AAA or Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
100

This act separated the operations of commercial and investment banks. It also established FDIC insurance

The Glass Steagall Act

100

This public works project created jobs, provided flood control, and was used to establish a fair price for electricity. It was also heavily criticized for its socialistic characteristics.

TVA

100
Closing banks before bank runs could put them out of business
What are bank holidays?
200

Period between March 9 and June 16, 1933 when Congress passed 15 acts

What is the Hundred Days?

200
This was set up to regulate the Stock Market
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission?
200
This was the first woman to hold a cabinet post as Secretary of Labor
Who is Frances Perkins?
200
This set out to organize all skilled and unskilled workers in the automobile industry
What is the Committee for Industrial Organization?
200
Government practice of abandoning a balanced budget and borrowing money to pay for programs
What is deficit spending?
300
Many people feared Roosevelt would abandon the gold standard and reduce the value of this
What is the dollar?
300
This act helped to solve the banking crisis by issuing licenses to banks that federal examiners found to be financially sound
What is the Emergency Banking Relief Act?
300
This act abolished child labor, limited work week to 44 hours and set the first minimum wage
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
300
Schechter v. United States, Supreme Court struck down this
What is the NRA?
300

Weather/Climate event which caused crop failures and major distress to mid western farmers

The Dust Bowl

400

The advisors Roosevelt surrounded himself with came to be called

The Brain Trust

400

This alphabet agency lengthened the mortgage repayment term and lowered mortgage rates for those that needed help

What is The Home Owner's Loan Corporation?

400
This created the idea that Roosevelt was trying to interfere with the Separation of Powers and undermine the court's independence
What is the court-packing plan?
400
This assists older Americans and the unemployed
What is the Social Security Act?
400

Herbert Hoover's alphabet agency that provided funding and assistance to banks and big businesses.

RFC

500

Roosevelt defeated this Republican candidate in 1936 who ran on a platform to be less wasteful with New Deal spending

Alf Landon

500
This put 3 million young men to work outdoors
What is Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC?
500
These two acts were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
What is the AAA and the NRA?
500
This guaranteed workers the right to organize unions and to bargain collectively
What is the National Labor Relations Act?
500
Argument that the government should spend heavily during a recession
What is Keynesianism?