History Chapter 23
Richard Wright
Author of Native Son
10 Million
Between 1933 and 1941, union membership in the United States grew from less than 3 million to about __________.
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Brought power to an impoverished region.
Orson Welles
Created "The War of the Worlds" radio show
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Created in 1934, this continues to monitor the stock market and enforce laws regarding the sale of stocks and bonds.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Created through the Glass-Steagall Banking Act, this shored up the banking system by protecting people's savings against loss in the event of a bank failure.
Grant Wood
Creator of famous painting American Gothic
Grapes of Wrath
Depicted difficulties of Dust Bowl farmers.
Gone With The Wind
Famous Depression-era film
Woodie Guthrie
Folksinger who captured daily hardships.
Cabinet member
Frances Perkins became the first female ___________.
Deficit Spending
Government spending that exceeds intake.p
It paid them a living wage to produce public art.
How did the Federal Art Project help Depression-era artists?
The FSA was created in 1937, it loaned more than $1 billion to help tenant farmers become landholders and established camps for migrant farm workers. (Who traditionally lived in squalid housing)
How did the Second New Deal attempt to help farmers?
It prohibited unfair labor practices such as threatening workers, firing union members, and interfering with union organizing.
How did the Wagner Act aid organized labor?
They were more sober and serious. Artistic work conveyed a more uplifting message about the strength of character and the Democratic values of the American people.
How did the art and literature of the Depression differ from the movie and radio productions of the time?
Wagner Act
Measure that strengthened labor unions.
Sit-down strike
One of the main bargaining tactics of the labor movement in the 1930s was the ____________.
Huey Long
Opponent of the New Deal
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Pollution was an unfortunate result of this program to promote flood control and build hydroelectric power plants.
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Put millions of young men to work.
Southern Democrats
Roosevelt do not do more to promote civil rights out of fear of upsetting _________.
New Deal
Roosevelt's program to fight the Depression.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
The Glass-Steagall Banking Act established the ______.
Steel Industry
The Memorial Day Massacre involved violent clashes between police and workers in the ________________.
A. Philip Randolph
The country's first all-black trade union was organized by _____________.
The Grapes of Wrath
The novel that depicts the arduous journey of Oklahoma Farmers fleeing the Dust Bowl is _____________.
Emergency Banking Relief Act (EBRA)
This authorized the Treasury Department to inspect banks and to close those that were unsound, with the greater goal of restoring public confidence in the Banking system.
Glass-Steagall Banking Act
This established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), with the greater goal of restoring public confidence in the banking system.
Parity
This federally regulated crop price was intended to stabilize farmers' incomes.
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
This helped to create prosperity in a poverty-stricken region by providing funds to build and repair dams, flood-control projects, and Power Plants.
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
This paid farmers to lower production and, in some cases, to destroy crops, with the greater goal of raising crop prices and farm income.
Social Security Act (SSA)-
This provides for an old-age insurance program.
Social Security Act (SSA)
This provides for an unemployment compensation program.
Social Security Act (SSA)
This provides programs that aid needy families with children and the needy disabled.
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
This put almost 3 million young men to work building roads, developing parks, and helping in soil-erosion and flood-control projects.
Federal Securities Act (FSA)
This required corporations to provide complete information on all stock offerings, with the greater goal of restoring public confidence in the stock market.
Parity
Under the 2nd Agricultural Act, loans made to farmers were based on this value of their surplus crops.
Set minimum hours at 44 hours per week, decreasing to 40 hours two years later. Set minimum wages at $0.25, $0.40 by 1945.
What did the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) accomplish?
Older, retired people (ages 65 or older), unemployed people, and families with dependent children and the disabled.
What groups did the Social Security Act (SSA) seek to help?
Men would build airports and construct/repair roads. Women would work in sewing groups, making garments for the needy.
What types of work did participants in the Works Progress Administration (WPA) undertake?
It was the first time that most African Americans had voted Democratic rather than Republican. Also, Labor Unions gave united support to a presidential candidate.
What was significant about the presidential election of 1936?
Movies provided a wide range of entertainment, and helped people cope with the reality of the Great Depression.
Why did so many people regularly attend movies during the 1930s?