The New Deal

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New Deal

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt's programs for helping the U.S. economy during the Great Depression

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Black Holiday

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This was designed to stop massive withdrawals

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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

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New Deal agency created in 1933 to insure bank savings deposits

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Frances Perkins

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a veteran reformer; secretary of labor

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Harry L. Hopkins

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A former relief supervisor in New York, headed the FERA.

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Civilian Conservation Corps

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New Deal agency established in 1933; employed young men on conservation projects.

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Securities and Exchange Commission

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Federal agency that regulates companies that sell stocks and bonds.

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John Maynard Keynes

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a noted British economist

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National Industrial Recovery Act

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Federal law dsigned to encourage economic growth by suspending antitrust laws and eliminating unfair competition between employers

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Agricultural Adjustment Administration

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Federal agency created by the Agricultural Adjustment Act in 1933 to reduce farmers output and increase crop prices.

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Tennessee Valley Authority

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New Deal program established in 1933; built dams and power stations to provide hydroelectric power and flood control to the Tennessee River Vally

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Robert C. Weaver

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He held a Ph.D. in economics form Harvard

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Marian Anderson

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a world famous African American Revolution refused to allow Washington, D.C. Hall

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John Collier

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He observed the poor living conditions in American Indian Defense Association

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Francis E. Townsend

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He was a liberal reformer who opposed the New Deal

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Charles E. Coughlin

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a radio priest from Michigan, urged the government to nationalize all arks and return to the silver standard

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Huey Long

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a colorful but corrupt U.S. senator from Louisiana, had probably the most radical plan

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Share Our Wealth

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This empowered the government to seize wealth from the rich through taxes and them provide a guaranteed mininmum income and a home to every american Family

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Works Progress Administration

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New Deal agency created in 1934 to put American men and women to work.

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National Youth Administration

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New Deal agency that provided part time jobs to people between the ages of 16-25

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Mary McLeod Bethune

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a member of the black Cabinet, be appointed director of the Division of Negro Affairs in the NYA

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Social Security Act

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Law that provides retirement pensions, unemployment insurance, and payments to people with disabilities and widows and children of male workers who have died

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Wagner Connery Act

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National Labor Relations Act; law that guaranteed labor's right to organize unions and to bargain for better wages and working conditions.

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Congress of Industrial Organizations

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Labor group formed in 1938 that organized all workers in a particular industry into one union

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sit down strike

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Method used by striking workers of presenting owners from replacing them by refusing to leave the factories

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Dust Bowl

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Clouds of dust darkened the skies at noon and buried fences and farm machinery

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Roy E. Stryker

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Head of the FSA historical section, assembled a team of reowned photographers

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Walker Evans

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Depicted life among sharecroppers in rural Alabama

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Gordon Parks

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Afrian American photographer who later became a filmmaker

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Margaret Bourke White

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Internatinal photojournalist

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Dortothea Lange

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The best know of the FSA photographers

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Migrant Mother

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A masterpiece by Lange

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Federal Project Number One

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New Deal program that encouraged pride in American culture by employing thousands of artists and writers

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John Steinbeck

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He produced a gripping picture of the depression years in The Grapes of Wrath

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The Grapes of Wrath

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This story follows the fortunes of a poor family as they travel from the Dust bowl region to California

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Zora Neale Hurston

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Who wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God; her novel explores a black woman's search for fulfillment in rural Flordia

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Richard Wight

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He offered a grim picture of black urban life in Native Son

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Gone With the Wind

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a sweeping story of the Old South set during the Civil War and Reconstruction

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Frank Capra

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Director who celebrated simple values and criticized the wealthy and politicians in films like Mr. Deeds Goes to town and Mr. Smith Foes to Washington

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Aaron Copland

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Composer; used famous gold music for his most popular compositions, including billy the Kid

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Thomas A. Dorsey

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African American composer who wrote songs such as " Precious Lord, Take My Hand"

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Mahalia Jackson

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A popular gospel singer

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Benny Goodman

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White conductor helped popularize swing with his integrated band

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Jacob Lawrence

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He portrayed the daily lives of African American heroes,such as Frederick Douglass

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regionalists

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A group of midwestern artists know as the ------- stressed local folk themes and customs

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American Gothic

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The most famous of the regionalist painting by Grant Wood

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Anna "Grandma" Moses

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Some folk artist, including the elderly painter ------ became will know during this period.