Alphabet Soup
This program, known as the CCC, provided jobs to young ment working in conservation.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
He advocated for this strategy, where government spending helps boost economic growth.
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
This act, also known as the National Lab Relations Act, established the legal right for workers to unionize.
What is the Wagner Act?
This Supreme Court case challenged the NIRA, leading to a ruling against part of the New Deal.
What is Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States?
This program provides retirement income to Americans over the age of 65.
What is Social Security?
Known as the WPA, this program employed millions to build infrastructure across the country.
What is the Works Progress Administration?
This method of economic stimulation involves government spending to increase demand and encourage production.
What is pump priming?
The CIO was a major labor organization that welcomed all workers, unlike many other unions.
What is the Congress of Industrial Organizations?
In an attempt to gain favor with the Supreme Court, Roosevelt tried this strategy to add more justices.
What is the court-packing scheme?
This act encouraged collective bargaining and strengthened unions in the U.S.
What is the Wagner Act?
The AAA was created to help this group by reducing surplus and boosting prices.
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
Roosevelt’s New Deal reflected this economic theory, suggesting that government intervention could stabilize the economy.
What is Keynesian economics?
This type of protest, famously used in the auto industry, involved workers sitting down in factories to prevent replacements.
What is a sit-down strike?
This group, known informally, advised Roosevelt on policies affecting African Americans.
What is the Black Cabinet?
This concept, initiated during the New Deal, involves government responsibility for social welfare.
What is the welfare state?
The SSA, established in 1935, aimed to provide assistance for the elderly, unemployed, and disabled.
What is the Social Security Administration?
This New Deal agency was created to bring electricity to rural areas, transforming life for millions of Americans in remote locations.
What is the Rural Electrification Administration?
This New Deal law established a minimum wage and maximum work hours.
What is the Fair Labor Standards Act?
Long-term funding was a concern for many people for this program.
What is the Social Security Act?
Today, this organization ensures that banks remain stable and protects individual deposits.
What is the FDIC?
The FDIC still exists today and insures deposits in banks.
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
This president created the New Deal Programs
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?
This key part of the Wagner Act strengthened labor unions by supporting the concept of workers bargaining as a collective unit.
What is collective bargaining?
Raising this cause people to worry about the rise of unemployment.
What is minimum wage?
This New Deal program paved the way for many current federal relief efforts during economic downturns.
What is the Works Progress Administration?