stupid FDR new deal act test

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• First major action as president: close all of the national banks & inspect them

• National debt reached a new high under his term  

• People saw him as compassionate, determined, and self-confident 

New Deal

• FDR’s program to alleviate the problems of the Great Depression

• focusing on relief for needy, economic recovery, regulation of the stock market, and financial reform

• Also helped farmers increase price of farm goods by decreasing surplus 

• Republicans & businessmen against it

Glass-Steagall Act

• Established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), 

• Goal: restoring confidence in the banks

Federal Securities Act (FSA)

• Required corporations to provide complete truthful information on all stock offerings

• goal: restoring confidence in the stock market 

Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

• Paid farmers to lower production/destroy crops

• goal: raising crop prices & farm income

• Ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court 

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• Put almost 3 million young men to work building roads, developing parks, planting trees, and helping in soil-erosion and flood-control projects 

• Showed presidents concern for the environment 

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

• provided funds to build and repair dams, flood-control projects, and powerplants 

National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)

• set fair prices on products and established labor standards

• Goal: ensuring fair business practices & promoting industrial growth 

• Ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court 

Emergency Banking Relief Act 

• inspected banks and close those that were unsound

• Goal: restoring confidence in banks

Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)

• Provided direct relief in the form of food and clothing to the neediest people hit by the depression - the unemployed, the aged, and the ill 

Deficit Spending

• the government's spending of more money than it receives in revenue 

Huey Long 

• Claimed the New deal policies were useless and proposed a social program called Share-Our-Wealth

Eleanor Roosevelt 

• Important advisor on domestic policy 

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

• Provided the unemployed with new jobs in construction, garment making, teaching, the arts, and other fields 

National Youth Administration

• provided young Americans with aid and employment during the Great Depression 

Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act)

• protected workers rights to join unions after the Supreme Court declined the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional 

Fair Labor Standards Act

• Set the national minimum hourly wage and prohibited factory labor for children under sixteen years of age 

Frances Perkins

• First woman cabinet member

• Helped create the Social Security system & crafting labor legislation 

Mary McLeod Bethune 

• Educator/Appointed head of the Division of Negro Affairs 

• Helped organize a “Black Cabinet” to advise Roosevelt on racial issues 

John Collier 

• Commissioner of Indian (Native American) Affairs 

New Deal Coalition

• An alliance of (southern whites, African Americans, unionized workers) who supported the policies of the Democratic Party

Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

• composed of industrial unions, merged with the AFL 

• Meant to unionize both skilled and unskilled workers 

Gone With the Wind

• 1939, a movie dealing with the life of Southern plantation owners during the Civil War, one of the most popular films of all time 

Orson Welles 

• Actor, director, producer, and writer

• Broadcast, “The War of the Worlds”

• Directed the movie classic, Citizen Kane

Grant Wood

• His famous painting American Gothic depicts two stern-faced farmers standing stiffly in front of a farmhouse

Woody Guthrie

• Used music to express the hardships of American life during the Depression  

  

Richard Wright 

• Wrote Native Son, depicts the difficulties faced by a young man trying to survive in a racist world

The Grapes of Wrath 

• A novel by John Steinbeck, published in 1939, deals with a family of Oklahomans who leaves the Dust Bowl for California 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

• Created through the Glass-Steagall Banking Act, insured individuals’ bank accounts, protecting against bank failure   

• Up to $5,000 per individual bank account ($250,000 today)

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

• monitored the stock market and enforce laws regulating the sale of stocks and bonds 

National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

• prevented unfair labor practices & mediated disputes between workers & management 

• Established by the wagner act 

Parity

• government-supported level for the prices of agricultural products, intended to keep farmers’ incomes steady by regulating prices of crops 

Social Security Act 

• Provide aid/pension to retirees, the unemployed, people with disabilities, and families with dependent children 

• Had the biggest long term impact on the economy 

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

• established to construct dams and power plants in the Tennessee Valley region to generate electricity(hydroelectric) & prevent floods 

Federal Deficit 

• Increased during the Roosevelt administration as the federal government expected reforms to stabilize the economy