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41 Cards in this Set
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Black Thursday |
Oct. 24, 1929; stock market crashed and 13 million shares are sold |
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Black Tuesday |
Stockholders panicked cause of sudden drop in stocks. Dow Jones example |
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Frank Capra |
Director; valued simplicity; disliked wealthy and politician films (so and so goes to some place) |
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Richard Wright |
African-American writer wrote about racism |
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Scottsboro case |
Nine black kids were accused of rape; obviously not guilty, but 8 were sentenced to death |
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Tariff Act of 1930 |
Trade legislation raised tariff rates on imported items |
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Hoover Moratorium |
ignored morals, postponed the money giving to the Bonus Army for personal and principal reasons |
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Bonus Army |
Made up of angry WW1 vets who wanted their money |
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Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) |
Union group started by John Lewis; unskilled workers helped organize things like the Wagner Act |
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Eleanor Roosevelt |
Supported lots of things dealing with women such as birth control, working conditions, and public housing legislation |
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Federal Writer's Project |
Fed. Gov. Project to fund written work; helped writers |
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Frances Perkins |
First woman in cabinet; close to Franklin R.; pulled the labor movement in New Deal |
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Glass-Steagall |
Created Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) did stuff with the gold and foreign currency; created personal banking accounts |
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John Lewis |
Boss of United Mine Workers and formed Committee of Industrial Organization (CIO) |
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Marian Anderson |
Black Opera Singer; denied a performance but later got it; credited for first modern rights demonstration |
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Federal Reserve System |
Reformed banking and created Federal Reserve board which overseered nationwide system of 12 regional reserves each with central bank |
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Farmers Holiday Association |
Farmers tried to force the prices on products to go up. Ultimately failed. Example is dumping out dairy products |
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Hundred days |
Started by FDR. Push for programs after first certain amount of days as president to help economy |
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CCC |
March 31; paid $30 a month to people ages 18-25 from relief families. |
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National Recovery System |
Industry wide codes that helped stop the tailspin of Industrial prices; FDR's attempt to help businesses |
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Harry Hopkins |
NY social worker who headed the federal emergency relief administration (FERA) and civil Works administration |
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TVA |
Built dams that made rural electrification possible |
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Federal securities act |
Regulated stock |
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Huey Long |
Powerful gov. Of Louisiana; wanted to redistribute the wealth from rich to poor |
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Father Coughlin |
Catholic pope; popular radio dude who made reckless contradictory and anti-sematic statements to his audience |
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Works progress administration |
Large federal employment programs established in 1935; ran by Harry Hopkins; provided jobs |
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Public Works Administration |
Government funded projects to build public facilities and provide jobs |
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National labor relations act (Wagner act) |
Collective bargaining and closed shops to help strengthen unions and protect union workers |
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Mary Bethune |
A. Americansl educator and activist who was appointed director of the Division Of Nero Affairs of the National Youth Administration |
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Roosevelt Recession |
Crisis was due to the fact that FDR pulled back on government spending ; spending was focused on public works that increased employment |
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Bankhead Jones Farm Tenancy Act |
July 22, 1937; authorized acquisition by the federal government of damaged lands to rehabilitate them and use them for useful purposes |
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Hatch Act |
Law of 1939 prevented federal officials from engaging in campaign activities |
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Brain Trust |
Group of academic advisors that FDR gathered to assist him during 1932 presidential campaign. Helped establish the New Deal |
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Fireside chat |
FDR speaking on the radio directly to the country to reassure it |
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Fordney-McCumber Treaty |
Raised tariff rates |
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Clark. Memorandum |
State Department issued a new policy allowing the right of the US to intervene in Latin America under Roosevelt corollary |
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Norris-LaGuardia act |
was a government legislation that dealt with the workers and unions. Forbade yellow Dog contracts. |
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Hawley Smoot Tariff |
Created highest import tax in history to protect domestic industries |
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London Naval conference and Specific five/four/nine power treaties |
International naval conference held in London; Nine- Open door policy in China; Five- US, Britain, and Japan; FOUR- US, BRITAIN, JAPAN, AND FRANCE STATUS QUO |
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Good Neighbor Policy |
Withdraw OF American troops from Foreign nations to improve relationships |
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation |
Agency became a government lending bank. Designed to improve indirect relief by assisting insurance companies, banks, etc. |
