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39 Cards in this Set
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RFC
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Established in early 1932. Helped imperiled banks and insurance companies. Loaned govt money to financial institutions to save them from bankruptcy.
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Hundred Days
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First 100 days of FDR's presidency was documented and started a trend fir all presidents to come.
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NRA
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National Recovery Administration. FDR's attempt to achieve economic advance through planning and cooperation among government, business, and labor.
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AAA
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Agricultural Adjustment Administration. Created by Congress in 1933, would allocate acreage among individual farmers, encouraging them to take land out of production by paying them subsidies (raised by a tax on food processors).
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Harry Hopkins
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FDR brought him in to direct the relief program. (New Deal relief.) He set up a desk in the hallway of the RFC building and proceeded to spend more than $5 mill in less than two hours. By the end of 1933, he had cut through red tape to distribute money to nearly one-sixth of the American People.
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WPA
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Works Progress Administration. Final commitment to the idea of work relief, came in 1935, established to spend nearly $5 bill authorized by congress for emergency relief. Put the unemployed on the federal payroll.
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Townsend Plan
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Proposed giving everyone over the age of 60 a monthly pension of $200 with the proviso that it must be spent within thirty days.
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Social Security Act
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The 1935 Act established a system of old age, unemployment, and survivors' insurance funded by wage and payroll taxes. It did not include health insurance and did not originally cover many of the most needy groups and individuals.
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Wagner Act
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The 1935 Act, formally known as the National Labor Relations Act, created the National Labor Relations Board to supervise union elections and designated winning unions as official bargaining agents. The board could also issue cease-and-desist orders to employers who dealt unfairly with their workers.
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NLRB
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See Wagner Act.
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John L Lewis
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Head of the United Mine Workers, took the lead in forming the Committee on Industrial Organization in 1935. Used Wagner Act to extend collective bargaining to the nations auto and steel industries.
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Liberty League
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Formed by a group of wealthy industrialists, to fight what they saw as the New Deal's assault on property rights. Attracted prominent Democrats, but in 1096 it endorsed the Republican presidential candidate, Alfred M. Landon.
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CCC
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Civilian Conservation Corps. The CCC enrolled young males from city families on relief and sent them to work on the nation's public lands, cutting trails, planting trees, building bridges, and paving roads. More than two million people served in the CCC, contributing to both their families' incomes and to the nation's welfare.
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Bonus Army
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22,000 WWI veterans had come to Washington in the summer of 1932 to lobby Congress to pay immediately a bonus for military service that was due to them in 1945.
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PWA
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Public Works Administration, headed by Harold Ickes had been authorized in 1933, but Ickes, intent on the quality of the projects rather than human needs, failed to put many people tow work.
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CWA
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Civil Works Administration. FDR created in 1933, and charged Hopkins with getting people off the unemployment lines and relief roll and back to work!
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Harold Ickes
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Headed the PWA.
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UAW
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United Automobile Workers. Developed an effective strike technique. GM workers in Flint, Michigan, simply sat down in the factory refusing to leave until the company recognized their union, and threatening to destroy the valuable tools and machines if they were removed forcibly.
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Hattie Carraway
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FSA
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Farm Security Administration. Granted loans to small farmers and tenants for rehabilitation and purchase of small-sized farms; congress slashed its appropriations during WWII when many poor farmers entered the armed forces or migrated to urban areas.
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Federal Farm Board
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Loaned money to aid cooperatives and bought up surplus corps in the open market in a vain effort to raise farm prices.
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Fair Labor Standards
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Aimed to establish both minimum wages and maximum hours of work per week.
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Charles Coughlin
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Roman catholic priest from Detroit. Originally supported FDR. Founded National Union For Social Justice.
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Huey Long
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Senator from Louisiana. "Share the wealth." Taking from the rich to make "every man a king" guaranteeing each American home worth $5000 and an annual income of $2,500.
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Francis Townsend
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A 67 year old physician. Proposed the Townsend PLan. (Monthly pension of $200 for people over 60.)
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Alf Landon
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Presidential candidate in 1936.
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Fireside Chats
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FDRs radio "shows" to the public where he told them what he did.
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TVA
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Tennessee Valley Authority. An attempt at regional planning. Included provisions for environment and recreational design; architectural, educational, and health projects; and controversial public power projects; continues today to meet the tennessee valley's energy and flood-control needs.
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Court Packing
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Concerned that the conservative supreme court might declare all his new deal programs unconstitutional, FDR asked congress to allow him to appoint additional justices to the court. Both congress and the public rejected the "court-packing" scheme and it was defeated.
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REA
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Rural Electrification Administration- transformed American Rural life by making electricity available at low rates to American Farm Families in areas that private power companies refused to service; closed the cultural gap between rural and urban everyday life by making modern amenities, such as radio, available in rural areas.
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New Deal
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In accepting the nomination of the democratic part in 1932, FDR promised a "new deal" for the American People. After his election, the label was applied to his program of legislation passed to combat the great depression. The New Deal included measures aimed at relief, reform, and recovery. They achieved some relief and considerable reform, but little recovery.
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Indian Reorganization Act
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Passed in 1934, a reform measure designed to stress tribal unity and autonomy instead of attempting to transform indians into self-sufficient farmers by granting them small plots of land.
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CIO
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Committee on Industrial organization- 5 million members by the 1930a. Successful in the textile, rubber, electrical and metal industries. It unionized skilled and unskilled workers and women and african americans.
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Hattie Carraway
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elected to senate for a full term in 1934
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hooverville's
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shanty towns built by homeless during the great depression
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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saught to find the wrongs of the country and through her husband, rectafy them
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New Deal Coalition
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farmer's immigrants and catholics
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Great Depression impact on political parties
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b/c republicans failed to fix economic issues, dems. had a chance to sieze power. however, Dems. still coudnt rally both city and rural
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New Deal impact on Women, African Americans, and Mexicans
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ND's efforts to help society were least effective on minorities
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