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31 Cards in this Set
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What were Franklin Roosevelts previous experiences in politics? |
Assistant Secretary of the Navy and the governor of New York |
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What disease did FDR have? |
Polio, he was in a wheelchair during his presidency, not many people knew about. |
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What are fireside chats? |
FDR's way of reaching out to the american people. |
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What was the brain trust? |
FDR pulled in all the experts of the country to help him fix America |
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Who was Francis Perkins? |
The first women cabinet member. She became the secretary of labor |
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What did Eleanor roosevelt do for FDR? |
Was his eyes and hears. She went out and did a lot of stuff in politics for FDR. |
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Who was Eleanor Roosevelt? |
The wife of Franklin Roosevelt |
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How many times was FDR elected for president? |
Four times |
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What was bank holiday? |
When FDR shut down all the banks |
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What was the "hundred days"? |
The time frame between March 9 and June 16 in 1933. Cones passed 15 major bills |
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What were the three purposes of the new deal programs? |
1. Recovery from the depression 2. Relief for the victims of the depression 3. Reform of the economic system |
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The Glass-Steagall Act |
Prohibited banks from investing in the stock market and created the federal deposit insurance corporation (FDIC) to insure depositors savings |
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The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) |
Was created to insure the depositors savings |
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The Federal Securities Act |
This required companies that issued or marketed stocks and bonds had to provide complete and truthful information to purchasers. |
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). |
This was put into place to regulate the stock market. |
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What was pump priming |
Pouring government money into the economy through loans and federal spending in hope of stimulating recovery. |
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How many people were unemployed by 1933? |
12-15 million people |
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The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA). |
This agency gave grants to states and towns to distribute as they chose. |
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What was a dole? |
Direct gifts of money, food, and clothing. |
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The Public Works Administration (PWA) |
-Created in June 1933 -Jobs insisted of handouts -Harold Ickes (secretary of the interior) -Generally worked through private contractors -Ickes insisted on black and white workers -Jobs included improving highways, building dams, sewer systems, waterworks, schools, and other government buildings. |
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Civil Works Administration (CWA) |
-Created fall of 1933 -Headed by Harry Hopkins -Winter 33-34 hired 4 million workers (300,000 were women) -Built or improved 1000 airports, 500,000 miles of roads, 40,000 schools, 3500 parks, playgrounds and playing fields -In five months this program cost America 1 billion dollars -Program cancelled due to cost |
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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) |
-May 1933 -Designed to promote the development of a seven state region -employed 40,000 workers -Built 20 dams and improved five others -produced a huge amount of cheap electricity -power companies hated it -other critics said that to much time and money was being spent on just seven states |
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The Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC) |
Established in 1933. Offered outdoor work to unemployed single men who were 18-25 years old. |
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The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) |
Was when the government paid farmers who reduced production of basic crops like cotton, wheat, tobacco, hogs, corn. |
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Farmers in 1933. |
Cotton farmers plowed under a quarter of their land and hog farmers killed 6 million piglets |
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The dust bowl. |
In 1934 and 1935 disaster struck the great plains. Both years were really dry and became a desert. Dust storms carried away much topsoil that a haze obscured the sun |
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The dust storm range. |
Most of Texas, Colorado, south Dakota, all of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska, and parts of new Mexico, Wyoming, north Dakota, and Montana |
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The general allotment act of 1887 |
Divided reservation lands into individual plots of land. |
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The Indian reorganization act |
Passed in 1934, this act repealed the allotment policy and returned to tribal ownership native American lands that were previously opened for sale. |
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The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) |
Was passed in June of 1933. To control production, NIRA had representatives from labor and management draw up "codes of fair competition" in each industry. These codes set the prices of products to eliminate discount selling. |
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The National Recovery Administration. (NRA) |
Ran the NIRA |
