Chapter 34

What campaign promise from 1928 did Herbert Hoover have a hard time delivering?

“a chicken in every pot”

What position did FDR and TR both hold prior to becoming POTUS?

Assistant of the Navy

What great asset did FDR have as opposed to his political rivals?

Eleanor Roosevelt

What will FDR’s wife help to fight for in the 1950s and 60s?

Civil Rights Movement

What was the nickname for FDRs “kitchen cabinet”?

“Brain trust”

The election of 1932 marked a shift of black voters. How?

They voted for the Democrat party and abandoned the party of Lincoln.

What were the three R’s in FDR’s New Deal?

Relief, Recovery, Reform

What will be the first thing on Roosevelt’s agenda?

Banking holiday

What famous statement does FDR make at his 1st inaugural speech to the people of America?

“Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

What precedent will FDR establish for future presidents concerning their early part of their 1st term?

What he accomplishes in his first 100 days.

This New Deal recovery government agency helped to end the dust bowl by employing many men who went out west and cultivated the soil?

CCC

What New Deal recovery program dealt with gold?

FDR ordered gold to be surrendered and then he abandons the gold standard

This amendment will be passed in 1933 ending the “noble experiment”.

21st Amendment

This New Deal Relief program helped homeowners with the paying off of their homes.

Home Owners’ Refinancing Act (33)

This New Deal recovery and relief agency was established to help farmers by giving them subsidies for their excess crops. It also paid farmers not to grow certain crops and to grow other crops.

Agricultural Adjustment Administration

This New Deal recovery, relief and reform agency helped to creating cheap electric power by damning the Tennessee River.

Tennessee Valley Authority

This triple R program established a maximum hours of labor, established codes of “fair competition”, created a minimum wage, allowed labor unions to organize and bargain collectively, and outlawed “yellow-dog” contracts.

National Recovery Administration

What did the Emergency Banking Relief Act do for the economy?

Put a lot more currency into the market through banks—ended the run on the banks, but caused inflation.

What reform movement did the Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act create?

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

This Recovery administration was established to provide purely temporary jobs during the cruel winter emergency.

This recovery administration was established to provide purely temporary jobs during the cruel winter emergency.

The National Housing Act in 1934 helped people get better loans with government help by creating this recovery agency.

Federal Housing Administration

These occupations will be left out of the New Deal relief programs?

Agricultural, service and domestic workers (Blacks, Mexican-Am and Women)

This recovery administration helped to employment people on “useful” projects—such as arts, literature projects, public buildings, bridges.

Works Progress Administration

This SCOTUS case will rule part of the NRA unconstitutional?

Schechter v United States

This SCOTUS cases will rule part of the AAA unconstitutional?

Butler v United States

What will be FDR’s reaction to the overturning of a few of his New Deal programs? This will damage his presidency until 1940.

He will propose to Congress the enlarging of the Supreme Court by 6 justices—Court Packing

What is the name of the old age insurance which will be created in 1935?

Social Security Act

As part of this act this will be established to guarantee payment incase you lose your job.

Unemployment Insurance

This New Deal program is known as one of the real milestones on the rocky road of the US labor movement, because is allowed labor unions to self-organize and to bargain collectively.

Wagner Act

At what age did people start receiving Social Security benefits? What was the average age of death for Americans in the 1930s?

65; 63

This book will describe the plight of the farmers who leave the dust bowl area and move their families to California looking for prosperity. Author?

The Grapes of Wrath; John Steinbeck

This act in 1934 will try and reverse the effects of the Dawes Act of 1887.

Indian Reorganization Act. Established local self-government and to preserve their native crafts and traditions.

This agency was created to oversee the stock market and prevent the boom to bust periods.

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Why did some Native American tribes refuse to organize under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934?

They felt they were being turned into museum pieces—“back to the blanket”.

What two major problems faced the New Deal programs in the 1930s?

They were not getting us out of the Great Depression and they were creating a debt for the United States.

Which economics did the Roosevelt administration pattern themselves after?

John Maynard Keynes (“Keynesian”)

What event will bring the United States out of the Great Depression?

WWII