Franklin D. Roosevelt

What did FDR use the New Deal for?

to help US get out of Great Depression situation

What economics practice did FDR first put into practice?

Keynesian economics

What were the three rs of the New Deal?

Relief, reform, and recovery

What was the Civilian Conservation Corporation?

it was a relief program that was part of the first New Deal that paid young people to build national parks

What was the Agricultural Adjustment Act?

It was a part of the first New Deal that tried to raise production prices by setting production quotas and paying farmers to plant less food. In that way, the government could regulate production prices

What was the National Industrial Recovery Act?

Act part of the first New Deal that established the National Recovery Administration to coordinate industry standards

What was the Glass Stagall Act?

An act part of the first New Deal that prohibited commercial banks from buying and selling stocks

What was the Federal Emergency Relief Administration?

It was part of the first New Deal, and gave welfare payments to people who were desperate

What was the Civil Works Administration?

Part of the first New Deal that created jobs for many people

What was the first New Deal?

Programs put into practice before 1935

Why did the Supreme Court strike down some of the acts of the first New Deal?

Because it considered them unconstitutional

What was the Wagner Act?

An act of the second New Deal that gave workers the right to unionize

What was the Social Security Act of 1935?

An act, part of the second New Deal that included unemployment insurance, aid to the disabled, aid to poor families with children, and retirement benefits. It was funded through payroll taxes.

How did the Social Security Act affect America?

It led to the transformation of the relationship between government and citizens. It changed the question from if the government should intervene to how the government should intervene

What was the Works Progress Administration and when did it end?

It was an initiative of the second New Deal that created many jobs for citizens. It ended in 1943.

How did the second New Deal change American’s view of the Democratic Party?

It led them to think of liberty being connected most closely to freedom to liberty being most closely connected to security