Chapter 13 New Deal

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Describe the "New Deal"

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FDR's experimental programs to relief the burden of the Great Depression.

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fire-side chats

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informal radio addresses FDR to reassure the American people during the G.D. "we have nothing to fear but fear itself"

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FDIC

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation- insured banks deposits

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TVA

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Tennessee Valley Authority
a massive federal project on the Tennessee River to provide cheap electricity for mainly rural areas

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CCC

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Civilian Conservation Corps
2 million jobs for young men to replant forests, build trails, fight fires, etc.

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fire-side chats

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conversations that FDR had over the radio with the American people to reassure them."We have nothing to fear, but fear itself"

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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first lady who was FDR's "eyes and ears" She travelled all over the U.S.

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TVA

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Tennessee Valley Authority

electrification of rural parts of the SE including Tennessee

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FDIC

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Federal Deposit Insuarance Corporation --government agency that guaranteed that money placed in banks would be safe.

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Pump Priming

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a Keynes idea regarding that government should spend large amounts of money to improve a failing economy

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John Maynard Keynes

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British economist who argued that the government should spend more money to put people back to work.

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New Deal

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FDR experimental relief programs funded by the federal government to end the Great Depression

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Fair Labor Standards Act

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federal law that called for 44 hour work week, set a minimum wage and ended unfair child labor practices.

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Wagner Act

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abolished unfair labor practices, recognized the rights of employees to join unions, workers given right for collective bargaining

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collective bargaining

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

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WPA

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Works Progress Administration--New Deal
jobs provided for almost every profession to get people back to work

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CCC

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Civilian Conservation Corps
conservation program to put men back to work building dams, building parks, and reforestation of depleted areas.

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Black Cabinet

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African-American advisors to FDR who represented New Deal programs in a positive light for African-Americans even though most New Deal programs discriminated.

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Sit-Down strikes

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a method of striking where strikers occupy their place of work and refuse to leave. One example: the auto industry in Flint, Michigan.