Chapter 15: The New Deal

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

known as FDR, distant cousin of former president Theodore Roosevelt.

New Deal

FDR's program for Relief, Recovery, and Reform during the Great Depression.

Glass-Steagall Act

established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

sought to raise crop prices by lowering production, which government achieved by paying farmers not to plant crops.

Civilian Conservations Corps (CCC)

put young men aged 18 to 25 to work building roads, developing parks, planting trees, and helping in soil erosion and flood-control projects

National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)

provided money to states to create jobs chiefly in the construction of schools and other community buildings.

deficit spending

spending more money than the government recieves in revenue

Huey Long

senator of Louisiana, supporter of the New Deal, turned against Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

Wife of FDR; Social reformer who combined her deep humanitarian impulses with great political skills.

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Large work program, part of the New Deal

National Youth Administration

created to provide educations, jobs, counseling and recreation for young people

Wagner Act

a passage of the National Labor Relations Act

Social Security Act

passed in 1935, Parts were old-age insurance for retirees 65 or older, unemployment compensation system, aid to families with dependent children and the disabled (welfare)

Frances Perkins

America's first female cabinet member

Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

union organization of unskilled workers; broke away from the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in 1935 and rejoined it in 1955

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

the government agency that insures customer deposits if a bank fails

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

The agency of the U.S. government that oversees U.S. financial markets

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

Created to insure fairness in labor-managment relations and the mediate employers' desputes with unions.

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

New Deal Program created to control flooding, conserve oil, and bring hydroelectric power to the mid-south

Emergency Banking Relief Act

(FDR) 1933 , gave the President power over the banking system and set up a system by which banks would be reorganized or reopened.

Hundred Days

the special session of Congress that Roosevelt called to launch his New Deal programs.

Fireside charts

conversational radio addresses given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Black Cabinet

Group of African Americans FDR appointed to key Government positions; served as unofficial advisors to the president.

Supreme Court Packing Incident

FDR tried to appoint supreme court officals(6) to make the supreme court more supportive of New Deal