HW 3 Quiz Stupid but i have to do it if i wanna pass social studies

When did FDR sign the Social Security Act?

1935

What were 3 key parts of the Social Security Act

Old-Age Insurance

Aid to Dependent Children

Financial Aid to the Disabled and Federal Money to the Unemployed

Describe Old-Age Insurance

allowing retired people a pension and a tax that removes money from workers’ paychecks

Describe Aid to Dependent Children(ADC)

• help children whose parents were deceased, unemployed or not living with the family

• single mothers that have to raise their children

What did the Social Security Act exclude?

• employers of farm workers and domestic workers were not required to pay into the system creating many AFRICAN AMERICANS, MIGRANT WORKERS and POOR RURAL WHITES

Who was in charge of drafting the Social Security Act?

Frances Perkins

Who was the frist woman to serve in canbinet and the FDR’s secretary of labor?

France Perkins

Francis Perkins and her ideals

• goveremnt should be backed by the cooperation between employers and workers and that every job has good physical conditions human relations and wages

National Labor Relaitons Act date and what it was also known as

1935 and Wagner Act

Wagner act explain it

• rights to workers to organize into unions and prohibit unfair business practices like firing them for joining a union

Fair Labor Standards Act date

1938

Fair Labor Standards Act explanation

• minimum wages @ 25 cents per hour

• maximum weekly work hours at 44

• put an end to child labor

Did Herbert Hoover like the New Deal what were his thoughts to what gov’t should be like?

He said that the government should be laisse faire with little government control and the liberty and indivual freedom. He wanted the government to interfere with the economy as little as possible.

Conservative criticism main arguments 3

• Too much regulation

• Massive debt

• fear of socialism and dictatorship

Did the New Deal end the Great Depression?

No.

What ended the Great Depression?

World War II 1941

What were 3 arguments for the New Deal

• Employing millions of jobless Americans

• Ending the banking crisis and reforming the stock market

• Improving working conditions

Did the New Deal restore faith in the gov’t for some people?

Yes.

Who was FDR’s wife?

Eleanor Roosevelt