51, 52, 53, Great Depression/New Deal Notes and Review Questions

He was the reform governor of NY who would be elected President based on a campaign promise of helping the average man?

Franklin Roosevelt

Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

Farmer subsides Paid farmers to stop producing excess product

This program was designed to keep a person's money safe in the bank with a government guarantee?

Federal Depositors insurance Corporation

These were the words issued by FDR in his inaugural address meant to calm the anxiety of most Americans?

"The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself"

What was his slogan for that campaign that spoke of so much prosperity?

"Two cars in every garage"

This term refers to FDR's first three months when he pushed numerous relief bills through Congress?

1st 100 days

The Fair Labor Standards established the length of the work week at this?

40 hour week

This program attacked farm overproduction by paying farmers to produce less?

Agricultural Adjustment Act

This was a group of WW I veterans who came to Washington DC to ask Congress for their pension?

Bonus Army March

This program gave young single men a chance to do outdoor work in communal camps?

Civilian conservation corp

This only true scandal of FDR's Presidency involved him trying to do what to the Supreme Court?

Court Packing Scandal

Name the drought that would hit the lower mid-west during the depression and drive out thousands of people?

Dust Bowl

Which person came to the aid of Marian Anderson when she was not able to sing in a concert because she was black?

E. Roosevelt

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

Employed men for the sake of electricity development Built dams Flood control

Civilian conservation corp (CCC)

Employed young men 18-25 to work in outdoor environment jobs

Civil works administration (CWA)

Government led job creation program that hired unskilled laborers for a short time period.

Public works administration (PWA)

Government organization that employed mostly unskilled laborers to work on infrastructure jobs

Name the book which tried to expose the conditions experienced by people during this drought?

Grapes of Wrath"

Who became President in 1928?

Herbert Hoover

This term referred to the former slogan of the President and combined it with the poverty soon faced by millions of people living in shantytowns?

Hoovervilles

Name the Louisiana Senator who claimed that "Every man's a King" and vocally criticized FDR for not doing enough?

Huey Long

This law finally made union membership a right that could not be denied?

National Labor relations Act (Wagner Act)

The volunteer program asked business leaders and labor leaders to follow a code of ethics in order to work through the depression?

National Recovery administration

This was the name of the platform on which he ran?

New Deal

What is the date of Black Tuesday, the day the Stock Market crashed?

Oct 29, 1929

Name one of the two sister programs whose sole job was to create public works projects in order to provide jobs?

Public works administration

National Recovery administration (NRA)

Referee business practices

This belief was shared by the President and many other people, and it is the belief that a person should help themselves?

Rugged Individualism

What "first" is Frances Perkins noted for?

Sec. Of labor

This agency was designed to regulate the activities of the Stock Market?

Securities and exchange commision

This program would provide elderly Americans with a monthly pension?

Social Security Act

Reform

Social Security, FDIC and SEC, farm subsidies and jobs program (Alphabet Soup)

This is the term for buying stock on the assumption that it will continue to rise in price and make a profit for the buyer?

Speculation

This program built dams and provided much needed electricity where is had not existed?

Tennessee Valley Authority

This part of the 2nd New Deal provided public works but also jobs for actors, writers, and artists?

Works progress Administration

Securities and exchange commision (SEC)

deficit spending was viewed as necessary . Gov't borrowed money and spent more than it took in from taxes collected.

These were the public radio addresses given by FDR to reassure the public that the government was doing something?

fireside chats

This term describes the situation of having a defeated President who remains in office for several months before the inauguration of the new President?

lame duck

Dr. Francis Townsend made a proposal to provide a monthly pension to whom?

proposed income for elderly which influenced fdr to create the social security act

Federal Depositors insurance Corporation (FDIC)

this insured or guarenteed everyone's money that gets deposited in a FDIC bank.