Ch 20 1.1 & 1.2: FDR and the 1932 Election & an Activist Government
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22 Terms
Second New Deal
Legislation focused on reform, keeping Congress in session through the summer of 1935.
2nd 100 days
Roosevelt stepped back after he passed the 14 acts and watched how they went. He received a lot of criticism for this because not as much got done.
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
1935 program led by Harry Hopkins that injected $11 billion into job creation.
National Youth Administration (NYA)
Program offering part-time work and education aid to youth aged 16-25.
Social Security Act (1935)
Provided old-age pensions, unemployment compensation, and aid to the disabled.
Frances Perkins
First female cabinet member and Secretary of Labor who helped draft Social Security.
American Liberty League
Conservative group formed in 1934 against the new deal and viewed it as socialist.
Huey Long
Louisiana Senator who created the Share-Our-Wealth program -- "Every Man a King" (<-popular quote).
Share-Our-Wealth Program
Proposed heavy taxes on the rich to guarantee families income and homes.
Father Charles Coughlin
Popular radio priest who turned into a bitter, anti-Semitic critic of FDR.
Dr. Francis Townsend
Proposed giving everyone over 60 $200 a month to spend in 30 days.
Election of 1936
Landslide victory for FDR where he carried every state except two.
Alf Landon
Liberal Republican governor of Kansas who ran against FDR in 1936.
John L. Lewis
President of the United Mine Workers who promoted industrial union organization.
National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)
1935 law guaranteeing workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively.
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
Board established to enforce labor laws and mediate disputes.
Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO)
Union group formed in 1935 to organize workers by entire industries.
Bargain Collectively
To negotiate a contract between a union and a company.
Sit-down strike
Tactic where striking workers occupied factories, like the 1937 GM strike.
Court Packing Scheme
FDR's 1937 plan to raise Supreme Court justices from 9 to 15.
Charles Evans Hughes
Chief Justice who opposed FDR's court-packing plan as inefficient.
Court Packing
Where FDR tried to add more members to the Supreme Court to pass his programs.