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Roosevelt
New Deal
Second New Deal
New Deal Ends
Vocab
100
Period between March 9 and June 16, Congress passed 15 acts which were known as this
What is the Hundred Days?
100
This was set up to regulate the Stock Market
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission?
100

Unemployment during the Depression was about 25% or 1/4 of the population, by what percentage did the new deal drop unemployment? 

5% or to 20% 

100

 Said that FDR expanded the role of the federal government too much. ( what party) 

Right-wing or Conservatives

100
Government practice of abandoning a balanced budget and borrowing money to pay for programs
What is deficit spending?
200
As governor of New York, Roosevelt oversaw creation of the first state relief agency to aid these people
Who were the unemployed?
200

Provided flood control and hydroelectric power to seven southern states and brought much needed jobs.

What is the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)?

200
This assists older Americans and the unemployed
What is the Social Security Act?
200
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?
200

Roosevelt's policies during the Great Depression

What is New Deal?

300
Roosevelt depended on this person while he was recovering from polio
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
300
This program paid farmers not to grow certain crops
What is the AAA or Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
300

Agreed with FDR's New Deal at first until debts started to arise, he then created his own welfare programn and later was killed by a gunman. 

Huey Long

300

Wrote the Native son, a book on a young mans experince with racism in the world. 

Richard Wright 

300

War of The Worlds, premiered on the radio causing mass panic or hysteria to radio listeners country wide. Who was the author? 

Orson Welles 

400
Many people feared Roosevelt would abandon the gold standard and reduce the value of this
What is the dollar?
400

FDR's first step to solving the banking crisis 

shutting down all the banks 

400

This funded the construction of highways, buildings, and parks, as well as artists, and authors. 

What is Works Progress Administration?

400

Famous story telling of a Dust bowl families struggles and travel. 

The Grapes of Wrath 

400

In U.S. agricultural economics, the price that gives farmers the same purchasing power they had during an earlier time

What is Parity?

500
Roosevelt triggered an economic downturn in 1937 by decreasing this
What is government spending?
500
This put 3 million young men to work outdoors
What is Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC?
500

This guaranteed workers the right to organize unions and to bargain collectively

What is the National Labor Relations Act or Wagner Act?

500

These two acts were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. Name one of them. 

What is the AAA and the NRA?

500

America's first female cabinet member, as secretary of labor. 

Frances Perkins