Chapter 24 - The New Deal

Mortgage relief

________ was a pressing need for millions of farm owners and homeowners.

Eleanor Roosevelt

________ spoke throughout the 1930s on behalf of racial justice and put continuing pressure on her husband and others in the federal government to ease discrimination against blacks.

Social Security

The ________ program at first excluded domestic servants, waitresses, and other predominantly female occupations The New Deal in the West and the South.

Roosevelt

________ launched the so- called Second New Deal in the spring of 1935 in response both to the growing political pressures and to the continuing economic crisis.

CCC

The ________ created camps in national parks and forests and in other rural and wilderness settings.

Franklin Roosevelt

________ helped enhance the power of the federal government.

Congress

To protect investors in the stock market, ________ passed the so- called Truth in Securities Act of 1933, requiring corporations issuing new securities to provide full and accurate information about them to the public The Growth of Federal Relief.

water transportation

It improved ________, virtually eliminated flooding in the region, and provided electricity to thousands who had never before had it.

Treasury Department

The bill provided for ________ inspection of all banks before they would be allowed to reopen, for federal assistance to some troubled institutions, and for a thorough reorganization of those in the greatest difficulty.

Johnson

________ called on every business establishment in the nation to accept a temporary "blanket code: "a minimum wage of between 30 and 40 cents an hour, a maximum workweek of thirty- five to forty hours, and the abolition of child labor.

Harry Hopkins

Under the direction of ________, the WPA was responsible for building or renovating 110, 000 public buildings (schools, post offices, government office buildings) and for constructing almost 600 airports, more than 500, 000 miles of roads, and over 100, 000 bridges.

Roosevelt

________ appointed the first female cabinet member in the nations history, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins.

Emergency Banking Act

Three days later, Roosevelt sent to Congress the ________, a generally conservative bill (much of it drafted by Hoover administration holdovers) designed primarily to protect the larger banks from being dragged down by the weakness of smaller ones.

Economy Act

On the morning after passage of the Emergency Banking Act, Roosevelt sent to Congress another measure—the ________ - designed to convince fiscally conservative Americans (especially the business community) that the federal government was in safe, responsible hands

Agricultural Adjustment Act

The first of them was the ________, which Congress passed in May 1933.

Agricultural Adjustment Administration

The government, through the ________, would then tell individual farmers how much they should produce and would pay them subsidies for leaving some of their lands idle.

National Recovery Administration

At its center was a new federal agency, the ________, under the direction of the flamboyant and energetic Hugh S. Johnson. Johnson called on every business establishment in the nation to accept a temporary “blanket code”: a minimum wage of between 30 and 40 cents an hour, a maximum workweek of thirty-five to forty hours, and the abolition of child labor

Federal Emergency Relief Administration

Among Roosevelt’s first acts in office was the establishment of the ________, which provided cash grants to states to prop up bankrupt relief agencies.

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Roosevelt’s favorite relief project was the ________.

Communist Party

The ________, the Socialist Party, and other radical and semi-radical organizations were at times harshly critical of the New Deal.

Townsend Plan

According to the ________, all Americans over the age of sixty would receive monthly government pensions of $200, provided they retired (thus freeing jobs for younger, unemployed Americans) and spent the money in full each month (which would pump needed funds into the economy).