Bonus army, The New Deal And Great Depression
Franklin D Roosevelt
Elected to four terms in office, he served from 1933 to 1945, and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms of office. He was a central figure of the 20th century during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war.
Civilian Corporation Corp
gave young men jobs planting trees and cleaning up parks.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
insured banks so people would not lose any savings in the events of bank failures (We are insured up to 250,000 dollars)
Prime the Pump
is to stimulate the economy by supplying it with money
National Industrial Recovery Act
it allowed workers to form unions and employers could not refuse to hire a union member.
Emergency Banking Relief Act was
it authorized government inspection of banks and allowed sound banks to reopen. (Bank Holidays)
Social Security Act
it provided a safety net insurance for workers who are unemployed, old-age pension
Security Exchange Commission
it regulate the stock market. It prevented fraud and a stock market crash. Companies had to be truth about their stocks to investors
Agriculture Adjustment Act
it will PAY farmers for their inventory. It will pay farmers to plant less or destroy crops.
To explain his programs and plans, FDR used...
..."fireside chats".
The amendment passed in 1933 which repealed prohibition was the...
...21st Amendment.
The bill which was designed to primarily protect larger banks from being dragged down by the weakness of the smaller banks was the...
...Emergency Banking Act.
The corporation established in the Glass-Steagall Act which guaranteed all bank deposits up to $2500 was the...
...Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
The president to serve for the longest time of twelve years was...
...Franklin Roosevelt.
Roosevelt's program in the 1930s which created many of the broad outlines of our modern political word was...
...The New Deal.
The Great Depression ended around 1940-1941 from the advent of...
...World War II.
Great Depression
1929 stock market crash; people had no jobs, money, food, etc.
Frances Perkins
1st female Cabinet member. She head the Department of Labor
Works Progress Administration
designed to create as many jobs dealing with art, writing, music, theater, and pubic art work
Great Depression
economic hard times that lasted from 1929-1940s
migrant workers
farmers that traveled during the different seasons to get work picking fruit
Bonus army
A group of almost 20,000 World War I veterans who were hard-hit victims of the depression, who wanted what the government owed them for their services and "saving" democracy. They marched to Washington and set up public camps and erected shacks on vacant lots. They tried to intimidate Congress into paying them, but Hoover had them removed by the army, which shed a negative light on Hoover.
New Deal
A plan by President Franklin Roosevelt intended to bring economic relief, recovery, and reforms to the country after the Great Depression.
Father coughlin
Anti-New Deal Catholic Priest; began broadcasting in 1930; called the "microphone messiah"; slogan was "Social Justice"; silenced in 1942 when his broadcasts became too radical.
Oakies
Farmers that moved from the Great Plains to California looking for better lives
Federal Emergency Relief
It gave 500 million dollar for emergency relief to the state's needy (people in poverty)
Wagner Act
It supported union and it gave union the right for collective bargaining
Schechter vs Poultry
It was a Supreme Court that ruled that NRA was unconstitutional because Congress could not give the President more power than those granted in the Constitutional
US vs. Butler
It was a US Supreme Court ruling that power to regulate the agriculture belong to the State Not the federal government. It made the AAA unconstitutional.
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
New Deal program that hired unemployed men to work on natural conservation projects
Black Tuesday
October 29, 1929; the day the stock market crashed
The New Deal
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Domestic Policy (It increased the power of the Federal government
Fireside Chats
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's technique to use the Radio to speak to the American people
Herbert Hoover's Plan
President at the start of the Great Depression. Trickle Down. Believe government should not get involved in economy should be businesses fixing the problem
Brain Trust
President's Franklin Delano Roosevelt's advisors
22nd Amendment
Put term limits on the Presidency
What Outlined the New Deal (The 3 R's)
Relief, Recovery, and Reform
Hoover
Republican candidate who assumed the presidency in March 1929 promising the American people prosperity and attempted to first deal with the Depression by trying to restore public faith in the community.
Court packaging plan
Roosevelt's proposal in 1937 to "reform" the Supreme Court by appointing an additional justice for every justice over age of 70; following the Court's actions in striking down major New Deal laws, FDR came to believe that some justices were out of touch with the nation's needs. Congress believed Roosevelt's proposal endangered the Court's independence and said no.
Hooverville
Shanty towns that the unemployed built in the cities during the early years of the Depression; the name given to them shows that the people blamed Hoover directly for the Depression.
Eleanor Roosevelt
She was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's wife and First Lady
Social security
created a federal insurance program based on the automatic collection of taxes from employees and employers throughout people's working careers. They would receive this money in a monthly pension when they reached the age of 65. The unemployed, disabled, and mothers with dependent children would also receive this money.
Public Works Administration
created jobs building schools, roads, and bridges
Huey long
[FULL NAME REQUIRED] Louisianna Senator who opposed FDR's New Deal and came up with a "Share the Wealth" plan, which planned to give $5000 to all families. He was later assassinated.
laissez faire
criticism of the New Deal program because it is the belief that the government should not get involved
Farm Security Administration
loaned 1 billion dollars to migrant farm workers
Causes of the Depression
overproduction, underconsumption, poor banking system, unwise loans
New deal
programs to combat economic depression enacted a number of social insureance measures and used government spending to stimulate the economy; increased power of the state and the state's intervention in U.S. social and economic life.
21st Amendment
repealed Prohibition
National Recovery Administration
set business codes regulating wages, pricing and practices to ensure competition.
Dust Bowl
severe drought that worsened the Depression for people in the midwest
Relief
the acts implemented in the area of aid to the unemployment
Tennessee Valley Authority
was created to provide jobs and cheap electricity to rural America (Government electricity)
1940's
when the great depression ended