Chapter 29 - The Rise and Fall of the New Deal

Executive 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