Chapter 19 Test

Herbert Hoover - The great humanitarian who believed that families, churches, and charities should help the needy

John Steinbeck - Wrote the grapes of wrath, a novel which described the plight of the Okies (socialist)

Franklin Delano Roosevelt - President who proposed the new deal

Eleanor Roosevelt - Franklin D. Roosevelt's t Lady, she became US delegate to the United Nations

John Maynard Keynes - Economist responsible for socialist ideas of Franklin D Roosevelt's tax and spend program

John L. Lewis - The leader of the United Mine workers Union organized the committee of industrial organizations which later became congress of industrial organizations

Gus Hall - Communist labor organizer who encouraged labor violence and became head of the communist Party, U.S.A.

Amelia Earhart - the first woman to pilot an airplane across the Atlantic. 

Great Depression - A time of stock market, bank failures, and unemployment

Hobos - Homeless people who abandoned their families during the GD and rode freight trains from town to town

Emergency Banking Relief Act - Gave the government broad powers to control banking policies

Fireside chats - It is President Franklin Roosevelt's radio address to the nation

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) - It insured all member bank accounts for up to 5,000 per account

Gold standard - Franklin D. Roosevelt announced that all privately held gold (not including jewelry and coin collections) should be returned to the Federal Reserve banks in exchange for paper money. Paper money could no longer be redeemed for gold.

Deficit - It is spending more money than it collects through taxes and other sources of income

21st Amendment - It legalized the sale of liquor, repealing Prohibition (18th Amendment).

Tennessee Valley Authority - One of the first government projects planned by the New Deal, the purpose of the TVA was to control flooding, conserve soil, and bring hydroelectric power to the mid-South.

Agricultural Adjustment Act - Seeking to increase prices for agricultural products by reducing the supply of food, the government paid farmers not to plant crops or graze livestock on pasture land.

National Labor Relations Act - which gave workers the right to form labor unions and practice collective bargaining. In collective bargaining, a union represents workers and negotiates for higher wages and certain working conditions.

Lindbergh Law - It established the death penalty in certain cases of interstate kidnapping.

Hindenburg - The German airship exploded and burned near Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 people. Many considered the crash of the Hindenburg to be the most dramatic event of the decade because a radio reporter was on the scene to give a live broadcast of the accident.

Fair Labor Standards Act - It dictated that, (1), no more than 40 hours of work per week be required of a worker. It also, (2), established a minimum wage for union members and, (3), abolished child labor.