Banking and Farm Crisis
Political and Farm Organizations
The Hundred
Days
Acts and Administrations
People and Legislations
100
National Industrial Recovery Act
What is it that mandated that companies in the sane industry cooperate and set prices and production levels Labor Unions were also federally protected through the NIRA?
100
Fireside Chats
What is FDR using the radio to communicate with American people?
100
CWA: Civil Works Administration
What is the reform that provided winter employment to 4 mil workers.
100
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
What is the organization that gave money to people immediately?
100
Fair Labor Standards Act
What established minimum wage which the lowest amount you can pay a worker?
200
Emergency Banking Act
What is the law that gave gov't officials the power to examine all banks, determine it's situation, and take steps to correct problems?
200
public works
What is government funded building projects?
200
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
What is the reform that built dams and other projects along the Tn River and tributaries?
200
Works Progress Administration
What is the administration that eventually employed 8.5 million Americans?
200
Francis Perkins
Who is the first women ever to serve as Secretary of Labor?
300
FDIC (Fed Dep Ins Corp)
What is the reform which provided gov't insurance for depositors savings?
300
New Deal
What is FDR's programs: relief, recovery, and reforms?
300
Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC)
What is the reform that sought to solve unemployment in young men 18 - 25.
300
Social Security
What is monthly payments / pensions. Money is taken out of your paycheck; paid back to you if someone can't work or retire?
300
William Haste
Who is the nation's first African-American federal judge?
400
Securities and Exchange Commision
What is the gov't watchdog over the nation's stock markets?
400
Deficit
What is when the gov't spends more money than it makes / brings home?
400
Second New Deal
What is the period of FDR's second Hundred Days in spring of 1935?
400
Rural Electrification Act
What is the act to bring farmers power?
400
Dorothea Lange
Who is the person who recorded images of the Depression sufferers?
500
Agricultural Adjustment Act
What is this that gave farmers a subsidy: gov't payment to grow fewer crops?
500
Relief, recovery, and reform
What are the goals that the new deal aimed to accomplish?
500
Wealth Society
What is the plan that gave every family family $500 to buy homes plus $2500 income/year and proposed heavy taxes on the wealthy?
500
Farm Tenancy Act
What is the act that aided some of the nation's poorest; tenant farmers and sharecroppers?
500
John Maynard Keynes
Who is a British economist who argued that deficit spending could provide jobs and stimulate economy?