Studied by 3 peopleExecutive branch
________- Can not participate in party activities.
Schechter Poultry Corporation
________- Resisted codes of NRA.
1936
Declared unconstitutional
1935
Declared unconstitutional
Unemployment insurance
Collect taxes → Given to unemployed
Old-age insurance
Retired → Given fed
1930s
Drought
Soil Conservation Act
Prevent soil erosion
The Grapes of Wrath
John Steinbeck
Republican Party
Attacked New Deal BUT had no other plan
Executive branch
Cannot participate in party activities
Supreme Court
Resistant to New Deal
FDR
Reorganize Supreme Court
Schechter Poultry Corporation
Resisted codes of NRA
1938
John L. Lewis
Great Depression
New Deal (FDR)
govt
Regulate economy + provide social welfare
“Alphabet Soup” Agencies
The U.S. federal government agencies created as part of the New Deal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
A voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
A United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Asked to tackle important problems facing the valley, such as flooding, providing electricity to homes and businesses, and replanting forests
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
The goal of the administration was to eliminate "cut throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices
Public Works Administration (PWA)
A large-scale public works construction agency in the United States headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
An American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
One of two agencies that supply deposit insurance to depositors in American depository institutions
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
An independent agency of the United States federal government used to enforce the law against market manipulation
Social Security
A social insurance program designed to pay retired workers age 65 or older a continuing income after retirement
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
An independent agency of the federal government of the United States with responsibilities for enforcing U.S. labor law in relation to collective bargaining and unfair labor practices
Rubber Stamp Congress
A person or institution with considerable de jure power but little de facto power — one that rarely or never disagrees with more powerful organizations
Boondoggling
Wasting New Deal money on extravagant and useless projects
Dust Bowl
A region subject to dust storms; especially the central region of United States subject to dust storms in the 1930s
Election of 1936
By winning 523 electoral votes, FDR received 98.49% of the electoral vote total, which remains the highest percentage of the electoral vote won by any candidate since 1820
Ida B. Wells
An American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement
Pack-the-Court Scheme
FDR proposed to reorganize the federal judiciary by adding a new justice each time a justice reached age 70 and failed to retire
Sick-Chicken Case
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, 295 U.S. 495 (1935), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that invalidated regulations of the poultry industry according to the nondelegation doctrine and as an invalid use of Congress' power under the Commerce Clause
John L. Lewis
An American leader of organized labor who served as president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960
Congress of Industrial Organizations
A federation of North American industrial unions that merged with the American Federation of Labor in 1955
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