Fdr And New Deal Vocab

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consumers

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users of goods and services

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Black Tuesday

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Oct. 29, 1929. day the stock market crashed, signaling start of the Great Depression

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Great Depression

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worst period of economic decline in U.S history, beginning in 1929

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Hoovervilles

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groups of shacks in which the homeless lived during the Great Depression

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Relief

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government program to help the needy

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Public Works program

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-projects built by government hired workers for public use
They helped people earn money by providing jobs.

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

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loaned money to banks, railroads and insurance companies to help them stay in business

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Bonus Army

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veterans who marched to Washington in 1932 to demand immediate payment of a WWI bonus

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Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)

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became president after Hoover and promised the public a "New Deal"

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Brain Trust

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advisors to FDR.

college professors who were experts on economic issues and helped FDR plan new programs

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Emergency Banking Relief Act

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only banks with enough funds to meet depositors' demands could reopen

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fireside chats

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radio speeches given by President FDR while in office

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Hundred Days

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First hundred days of FDR's presidency. Congress passed about 15 major new laws.

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New Deal

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program of president FDR to end the Great Depression.
3 main goals- Relief for jobless, plans for economic Recovery and Reforms to prevent another Depression

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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

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New Deal program that hired unemployed men to work on naturual conservation projects

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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

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TVA New Deal program that built dams to control flooding and produce cheap electric power

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Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)

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gave federal money to state and local agencies that then gave the money to the unemployed

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Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)

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government paid farmers NOT to grow certain crops

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National Recovery Administration (NRA)

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government agency set up during the Great Depression to enforce new codes to stabilize industry

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Public Works Administration (PWA)

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promoted recovery by hiring workers for thousands of public projects

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

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insured savings accounts on banks approved by the government

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Rural Electrification Project (REA)

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created to help people in rural areas get the same electrical service as people in urban areas

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Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)

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government paid farmers NOT to grow certain crops

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National Recovery Administration (NRA)

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government agency set up during the Great Depression to enforce new codes to stabilize industry

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Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)

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government paid farmers NOT to grow certain crops

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Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)

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government paid farmers NOT to grow certain crops

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National Recovery Administration (NRA)

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government agency set up during the Great Depression to enforce new codes to stabilize industry

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Public Works Administration (PWA)

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promoted recovery by hiring workers for thousands of public projects

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National Recovery Administration (NRA)

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government agency set up during the Great Depression to enforce new codes to stabilize industry

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Public Works Administration (PWA)

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promoted recovery by hiring workers for thousands of public projects

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

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insured savings accounts on banks approved by the government

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Public Works Administration (PWA)

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promoted recovery by hiring workers for thousands of public projects

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Rural Electrification Project (REA)

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created to help people in rural areas get the same electrical service as people in urban areas

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

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insured savings accounts on banks approved by the government

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

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insured savings accounts on banks approved by the government

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Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)

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government paid farmers NOT to grow certain crops

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Rural Electrification Project (REA)

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created to help people in rural areas get the same electrical service as people in urban areas

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National Recovery Administration (NRA)

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government agency set up during the Great Depression to enforce new codes to stabilize industry

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Rural Electrification Project (REA)

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created to help people in rural areas get the same electrical service as people in urban areas

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Public Works Administration (PWA)

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promoted recovery by hiring workers for thousands of public projects

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

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insured savings accounts on banks approved by the government

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Rural Electrification Project (REA)

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created to help people in rural areas get the same electrical service as people in urban areas

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Works Progress Administration (WPA)

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1935. Put jobless to work making clothes and building hospitals, schools, parks, playgrounds and airports. Hired artists, photographers and writers

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Social Security Act (SSA)

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1935 law that set up a system of pensions for older people and set up the nation's first system of unemployment insurance

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Wagner Act

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protected American workers from unfair management practices. Guaranteed workers the right to collective bargaining

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Collective bargaining

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process by which a union representing a group of workers negotiates with management for a contract

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sitdown strike

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strike in which workers refuse to leave the workplace until a settlement is reached

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deficit spending

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government practice of spending more than is taken in from taxes

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Dust Bowl

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region in central Great Plains that was hit by a severe drought during the 1930s

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migrants

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people who move from place to place (in search of work)

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Black Cabinet

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group of black leaders who unofficially advised FDR concerning the situation of African-Americans

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Grapes of Wrath

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novel by John Steinbeck that told about suffering farmers headed west

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Wizard of Oz

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1939 movie of a young girl's escape from bleak life in depression-era Kansas to the magical land of Oz

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

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very popular movie. First full-length animated film.

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Frances Perkins

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Secretary of Labor. First woman to hold a cabinet position.

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Huey Long

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Senator of Louisiana. Believed New Deal had not gone far enough to help the poor.

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Mary McLeod Bethune

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part of Black Cabinet. First African-American to head a government agency.

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Richard Wright

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