Ch 15: The New Deal

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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American President elected at the height of the Great Depression

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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FDR’s wife and First Lady; known for her active role in the administration

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New Deal

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programs and legislation enacted by FDR during the Great Depression to promote economic recovery

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fireside chat

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informal radio broadcast in which FDR communicated with the American people

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

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government agency that insures bank deposits

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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

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government agency that built dams in the Tennessee River valley to control floods and generate electric power

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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

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government program that provided young men with jobs on environmental conservation projects

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National Recovery Administration (NRA)

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government agency that developed codes of fair competition in industry, including minimum wages and prices

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Public Works Administration (PWA)

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government agency that improved the nation’s infrastructure and created millions of jobs

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Charles Coughlin

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Roman Catholic priest who accused FDR of not doing enough to end the depression

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Huey Long

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Louisiana Senator and New Deal critic

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second New Deal

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legislative activity begun by FDR in 1935 to solve problems created by the Great Depression

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Works Progress Administration (WPA)

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agency that provided job relief through public-works projects

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John Maynard Keynes

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British economist who supported the policy of deficit spending to help end the depression

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pump priming

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economic theory that favored public-works projects because they put money in the hands of consumers who would buy more goods, stimulating the economy

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Social Security Act

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1935 law that created a pension system for retirees, established unemployment insurance, created insurance for victims of work-related accidents, and provided aid for poverty-stricken mothers and children, the blind, and the disabled

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Wagner Act

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law that recognized the right of employees to join labor unions and gave workers the right to collective bargaining

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collective bargaining

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process in which employers negotiate with labor unions about hours, wages, and other working conditions

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Fair Labor Standards Act

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law that set a minimum wage and a maximum workweek and outlawed child labor

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Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

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labor organization founded in the 1930s that represented industrial workers

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sit-down strike

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labor protest in which workers stop working and occupy the workplace until their demands are met

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court packing

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FDR plan to add more justices to the Supreme Court after the Court ruled some New Deal legislation unconstitutional

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Black Cabinet

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African American leaders who served as unofficial advisers to FDR

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Mary McLeod Bethune

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educator and member of FDR’s Black Cabinet

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Indian New Deal

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program that gave Native Americans economic assistance and greater control over their own affairs

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New Deal coalition

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diverse group of southern whites, northern blue-collar workers, midwestern farmers, and African Americans that united behind FDR and the New Deal

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welfare state

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government that assumes responsibility for providing for the welfare of children and the poor, elderly, sick, disabled, and unemployed

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The Wizard of Oz

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popular depression-era film that promised dreams really can come true

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Frank Capra

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director whose films celebrated American idealism and the triumph of the common man over adversity

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War of the Worlds

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1938 radio drama that was so realistic many people feared that Martians were actually invading

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Federal Art Project

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branch of the WPA that hired artists to create artworks for public buildings

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mural

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large picture painted directly on a wall or ceiling

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Dorothea Lange

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FSA photographer who helped document the plight of America’s farmers

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John Steinbeck

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author whose depression-era classic The Grapes of Wrath tells the story of a family trying to escape the Dust Bowl

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Lillian Hellman

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playwright whose works featured strong roles for women and socially conscious subject matter