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31 Cards in this Set
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Goals of the New Deal |
Recovery, Relief & Reform. |
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Emergency Banking Act |
It was FDR's attempt to stabilize the banking system. It called for a four-day mandatory shutdown of U.S. banks for inspections before they could be reopened, sought to re-instill investor confidence and stability in the banking system. Banks were only allowed to re-open once they were deemed financially sound. The act was passed during this shutdown, in hopes that Americans would renew their confidence by the time the banks re-opened. It also extended the power of the president during this time of hardship, allowing him the executive power to make the decisions necessary to salvage the economy. |
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Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) |
Protect investors. Maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets. Facilitate capital formation. The SEC is a federal agency responsible for regulating the securities industry and for enforcing federal securities law. It is meant to protect the public against fraudulent and manipulative practices in the securities markets. |
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National Labor Relations Act. |
It protected the rights of employees and employers, to encourage collective bargaining, and to curtail certain private sector labor and management practices, which can harm the general welfare of workers, businesses and the U.S. economy. 1935. Also, labor unions. |
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Critics of the New Deal |
Threatening individuals freedom, destroying free enterprise. |
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People who said it did too much. |
Conservatives. |
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People who said it didn't do enough |
Communists, socialists. |
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Huey Long |
He criticized New Deal because he thought it wasn't doing enough for the poor. He was one of the main opponents. |
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American Liberty League |
The American Liberty League was an American political organization formed in 1934, primarily of wealthy business elites and prominent political figures because they opposed the New Deal of Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was highly active for just two years. |
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Agricultural adjustment act |
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was a United States federal law of the New Deal era which reduced agricultural production by paying farmers subsidies not to plant on part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus and therefore effectively raise the value of crops. |
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Rural electrification administration |
Provided federal loans for the installation of electrical distribution systems to serve isolated rural areas of the United States. Gave farmers electricity. |
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Works progress administration |
Employed millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. |
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Wagner Act |
Recognized the right of workers to join labor unions. Gave workers the right time collective bargaining. |
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Sit down strike |
A labor strike and a form of civil disobedience in which an organized group of workers, usually employed at factories or other centralized locations, take unauthorized or illegal possession of the workplace by "sitting down" at their stations. |
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Eleanor Roosevelt |
FDR's Wife and New Deal supporter. Was a great supporter of civil rights and opposed the Jim Crow laws. She also worked for birth control and better conditions for working women |
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Bureau of Indian Affairs |
Give Indians back their heritages. |
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Navajo Live Stock Reduction program |
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Indian New Deal |
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Indian reorganization act |
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Indian reorganization act |
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FDR setting aside federal lands |
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Roosevelt's presidential terms |
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Francis Perkins |
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Mary McLeod Bethune |
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New Deal coalition |
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Minority job creation (CCC) |
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Minority job creation (CCC) |
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Pump priming |
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Court packing |
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Court packing |
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Collective bargaining |
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