A.p. Us History Chapter 36

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Herbert Hoover:

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promised “A chicken in every pot”: if tariff repealed grass would grow “in the streets of a hundred cities”

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Chicken, streets grow

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FDR

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Democratic, Governor of NY, a fifth cousin of Theodore Roosevelt, graduated from Harvard, FDR was suave and conciliatory, an arrogant “lightweight”

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Democratic, _______ of NY, cousin to Theodore, suave

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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niece of Theodore Roosevelt, overcame the misery of an unhappy childhood, most active First Lady

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“Brain Trust”

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small group of reform-minded intellectuals, predominantly youngish college professors

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Al Smith

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New Yorker, felt he should be dominated for president, felt betrayed by FDR

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March 6-10, 1933

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banking holiday, as a prelude to opening the banks on a sounder basis

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New Deal

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relief, recovery, and reform

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Emergency Banking Relief Act, 1933

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invested the president with power to regulate banking transactions and foreign exchange and to reopen solvent banks

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“Fireside chats”:

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FDR using the radio to deliver some of his speeches

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Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act:

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provided for the Federal Deposit Insuranace Corporation, which insured individual deposits up to $5,000

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“Managed currency”

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goal of this was inflation, which FDR believed would relieve debtors’ burdens and stimulate new production

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Civilian Conservation Corps

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proved to be perhaps the most popular of all the New Deal. provided employment in fresh-air government camps for about 3 million uniformed young men

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Federal Emergency Relief Act

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chief aim was immediate relief rather than long-range recovery

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Agricultural Adjustment Act

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made available many millions of dollars to help farmers meet their mortgages

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Home Owners’ Loan Corporation

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designed to refinance mortgages on nonfarm homes, ultimately assisted about a million badly pinched households

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Civil Works Administration

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designed to provide purely temporary jobs during the cruel winter emergency, it served a useful purpose

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Father Charles Coughlin

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Catholic priest in Michigan, slogan was “Social Justice,” anti-New Deal harangues became so anti-Semitic, fascistic, and demagogic that he was silenced in 1942 by his ecclesiastical superiors

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Huey P. Long

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“Kingfish” said to have more brass than a government mule, promised that every family was to receive $5,000 at the expense of the prosperous

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Mary McLeod Bethune

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founder of a college in Florida, became the highest ranking African-American in the Roosevelt administration when she was appointed director of the Office of Minority Affairs

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Works Progress Administration

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objective was employment on useful projects

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National Recover Administration

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designed to assist industry, labor and the unemployed, most complex and far-reaching effort by the New Dealers

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Schechter. 1935

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“sick chicken” decision, Congress could not “delegate legislative powers” to the executive

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Frances Perkins

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first woman cabinet member, secretary of labor under FDR

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Harold L. Ickes

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free-swinging former bull mooser, secretary of the interior “Honest Harold”

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Agricultural adjustment Administration

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was to establish “parity prices” for basic commodities

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Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936

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the withdrawal of acreage from production was now achieved by paying farmers to plant soil-conserving crops

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Second Agricultural Adjustment Act

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more comprehensive, continued conservation payments eligible for parity payments

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Dust Bowl

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Rainless weather turned the topsoil to powder in Missouri, Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma

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John Steinbeck

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wrote The Grapes of Wrath

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Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act

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made possible a suspension of mortgage foreclosures for five years, but it was voided the next year by the Supreme Court

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Resettlement Adminstration

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charged with the task of removing near-farmless farmers to better land

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Indian Reorganization

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encouraged tribes to establish local self-government and to preserve their native crafts and traditions

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Federal Securities Act:

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“Truth in Securities Act” required promoters to transmit to the investor sworn information regarding the soundness of their stocks and bonds

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Securities & Exchange Commission:

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designed as a watchdog administrative agency

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Tennessee Valley Authority

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a result of the steadfast vision and unflagging zeal of Senator George W. Norris, determined to discover precisely how much the production and distribution of electricity cost

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Federal Housing Authority

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building industry was to be stimulated by small loans to householders, both for improving their dwellings and for completing new ones

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Social Security Act

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provided for federal-state unemployment insurance

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Wagner Act

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(National Neighbor Relation Act) real milestone! created a powerful new National Labor Relations Board for administrative purposes and reasserted the right of labor to engage in self-organization and to bargain collectively through representatives of its own choice

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United Mine Workers

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John L.Lewis was the Boss of this, prominent amongst the strikers. several times were called off the job by their chieftain

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Fair Labor Standards Act

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(Wages and Hours Bill), industries involved in interstate commerce were to set up minimum-wage and maximum-hour levels

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Alfred M. Landon

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Mildly Liberal Republican candidate for presidency, of the Sunflower State of Kansas, wealthy oilman, had balanced the budget of his state in an era of unbalanced budgets

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FDR(2)

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Franklin “Deficit” Roosevelt, attacked as “that man” and “the New Dealocrat”. Roosevelt snapped back by calling them “economic royalists” who sought to “hide behind their flag and the Constitution”

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American Liberty Party

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formed by the Democrats to fight “socialistic” New Deal schemes, and they vented their reactionary spleen against “that man” Roosevelt, “the New Dealocrat.”

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Twentieth Amendment:

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swept away the post-election lame duck session of Congress and shortened by six weeks the awkward period before inauguration

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“Court Packing”; “A switch in time saves nine.”:

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classic witticism inspired by this ideological change

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“Roosevelt recession,” 1937:

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caused by Social Security taxes biting into payrolls, quick depression in 1937

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John Maynard Keynes:

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British economist, “Keynesianism” became the new economic orthodoxy and remained so for decades, planned deficit spending

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Al Smith

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sneered on the New Deal programs as “alphabet soup”

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Will Rogers:

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Humorist, “poet lariat” of the era, remarked that if Roosevelt were to burn down the Capitol, people would say, “Well, we at least got a fire started, anyhow.”