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Father Coughlin
* Most extreme
Hosted a radio program & he did not like FDR
40 million listeners
rails on FDR—everything FDR does is not enough
preaches extreme anti-Semitism
country could’ve done more during WW2
huge anti-Semitic element in the US
segregation
* "Social Justice"
Huey Long
* * Share Wealth Program

* Radical redistribution of wealth

* Everybody in the country should be guaranteed $5,000—carried forward by people like MLK jr
*
* from new orleans
Harold Icke
* head of the PWA in 1933
* the public works administration developed jobs for unemployed people
* aided in relief
The "Three R's"
* New Deal's platform
* Relief
* Immediate action taken to halt the economies deterioration.
* Recovery
* "Pump - Priming" Temporary programs to restart the flow of consumer demand.
* Reform
* Permanent programs to avoid another depression and insure citizens against economic disasters
Glass-Steagal Act 1933
* bank insurance at $5,000 for consumers
* stopped bank failures
* increased trust in banks
* creates FDIC, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Civilian Conservation Corps 1933-1942
* most popular New Deal
* recruits young men to work in conservation projects across america
* reforestation and swamp draining
* sent money back home
* criticized by people thinking FDR was creating a standing army
* helped conserve human resources and develop natural resources
Works Progress Administration 1934
* creates jobs
* Federal Art Project
* pays artists to create pieces for people to enjoy
* supports forgotten men
* ran by Harry Hopkins
* Provided long term government jobs building schools and other public works projects.
National Recovery Act 1933
* targest immediate and long term goals at once
* deals with industry, labor, and unemployment
* hours lowered= higher employment
* minimum wages= higher pay
* the right to unionize under a group
* no yellow dog contracts
* fair competition codes were broken
* told businesses when they come make something, how much they could produce, and how they could produce it
* supreme court show down NRA in Schecker Case 1935
Schechter Act 1935
was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that invalidated regulations of the poultry industry according to the nondelegation doctrine and as an invalid use of Congress's power under the commerce clause. This was a unanimous decision that rendered the National Industrial Recovery Act, a main component of President Roosevelt's New Deal, unconstitutional.
Public Works Administration 1933
* Harold Ickes was in charge of it
* built dams, created jobs for people
* like the Grand Codee Damn on the Columbia river
* Irrigation, electricity from the dams.
* helped develop the west
* aided in long term recovery
Agricultural Adjustment Act 1933
* artificial scarcity (burning crops) parity prices
* parity prices make crops cost would they would in 1904 or 1914
* Increased unemployment rates
* people unhapy about the wasted amount of food
* deals with problem of over production
* later ruled out by supreme court
Securities and Exchange Commission 1934
* a reforming idea
* created a watch dog on the stock market
* in order to stave off recessions from happening
* Permanent Agency set up to monitor stock market activity and ensure that no fraud or insider trading was taking place.
* was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United Statesthat invalidated regulations of the poultry industry according to the nondelegation doctrine and as an invalid use of Congress's power under the commerce clause. This was a unanimous decision that rendered the National Industrial Recovery Act, a main component ofPresident Roosevelt's New Deal, unconstitutional.
Tennessee Valley Authority 1933
* retake on muscle shoals bill
* Created a federally owned electric company
* Government was too efficient—putting other energy companies
* 1933
* hundred days congress
* George W Norris
* first government corporation
* helped develop the west
* low cost housing
* more federal built dams
* Agency created to build dams in the Tennessee river valley. These dams provided more stable irrigation and cheap hydroelectric power.
Social Security Act
* 1935 (SSA)
* provided federal state unemployment insurance
* provided security for old age, retired workers
* also for blind and handicapped
* Government realized they had to protect citizen welfare
* Hoover hated it
Wagner Act
National Labor Relations Acts 1935

* Wagner Act
* Created Labor Relations Board for administration purposed
* reasserted right to unionize
* magna cart of labor
* Unskilled workers unionized
Congress of Industrial Organizations
* John L. lewis
* 1935 formed Committee for Industrial Organization part of American Federation of Labor
* AFoL suspended growtih of CIO
* 1936 sit-down strike ijn flint michigan, prevented importation of new workers
* Congress of Industrial Organization develops 1938
* left AF of L
* 4 million members by 1940
20th and 21th Amendments
* 20th amendment 1933
* shortened lame duck period to January instead of march

* Repeal of prohibition 21st amendment 1964
* raises federal revenue
* legalize light liqour at first