Chapter 26: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal

Volunteerism, no help from government

Know President Hoover's belief on unemployment relief.

Cut taxes, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, helped banks not people

Identify the programs of the Hoover administration to improve the Depression.

Failure

Know the best description of Hoover's response to the Depression.

Hoover

Name the person Americans blamed for the Depression.

Roosevelt sent 15 requests to congress and got 15 pieces of legislation

Identify the term "Hundred Days".

Strong banks reopen with federal support, weak banks close, in between banks get loans

Know the purpose of Roosevelt's Hundred Days banking legislation.

Built dams for flood control, ease of navigation, produce electricity

Identify the purpose of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).

National Recovery Administration, prices and wages are same

Identify which agency used the Blue Eagle symbol.

Agricultural Adjustment Administration

Identify which New Deal program(s) the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional.

Made larger farmers more efficient on less land, cut off smaller farmers

Know the actions of the federal government under the Agricultural Adjustment Act in respect to farmers.

Gave people hope, government taking action

Identify how Franklin Roosevelt's initial New Deal legislation was viewed.

Monetary schemes and anti-semitism

Know the contents of Father Coughlin's radio sermons.

Everyone over the age of 60

Identify the group Francis Townsend advocated that the federal government pay $200 a month to.

Seizing fortunes of more than $5 million, levying tax of 100% on incomes greater than $1 million

Know the ideology advocated by Huey Long.

Outlaw company unions and other unfair labor practices

Know the purpose of the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act.

Committee on Industrial Organization

Name the organization founded by John L. Lewis in 1935.

Extend collective bargaining to nation auto and steel industries

Know the purpose of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.