Quizlet for the Anson Quiz on FDR's New Deal and all the legislation.
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| FDR's term for his cabinet, trustees, etc. | ||
| Type of economic philosophy that works from the bottom up | ||
| FDR's radio addresses to the American people | ||
| Protected farmers from price drops by 1) providing crop subsidies to reduce production and 2) educational programs to teach methods of preventing soil erosion. | ||
| Enforces codes of fair competition, minimum wages, and permits collective bargaining of workers. (Basically helps factories) | ||
| Corporation that insures people's money in banks. (At first ensures $2500 per investor) | ||
| Corporation that helps people to not get foreclosed upon. | ||
| Act that made for the distribution of millions of dollars of direct aid to unemployed workers and hired women as clerks. (Like today's welfare) *Also helped farmers find land for cattle and helped them can excess meat. | ||
| Group headed by Harold Ickes that created jobs for SKILLED workers. | ||
| Group headed by Harry Hopkins that provided jobs for unskilled workers. | ||
| Group that sent 250,000 young men to work camps to perform reforestation and conservation tasks. (In doing so removed surplus of workers from cities, provided healthy conditions for boys, and provided money for families.) | ||
| Act in which the federal government built a series of dams to prevent flooding and sell electricity. (The first public competition with private power industries) | ||
| Act that puts the FDIC into place. | ||
| Group that regulated the stock market and restricted margin buying. | ||
| FDR's closing of all United States banks for a week in order to 1) stop people from losing more money and 2) inspect all banks to make sure they were all legitimate and functional. | ||
| Group that gives people some money for retirement. | ||
| The _______ Amendment to the constitution stopped prohibition. | ||
| Group made to help out unions and working conditions. | ||
| Headed by Harry Hopkins, this firm created jobs for UNSKILLED workers. *(This firm replaces the CWA) | ||
| The _____ was shut down because Harry Hopkins was accused of ______________. | ||
| Act that resettled people from the western US (where the Dust Bowl struck worst) to new farm lands. | ||
| Group that loaned money to farmers. | ||
| Group that worked to install electricity for the whole country. | ||
| Group in charge of modernizing and improving the poorest region of the United States. | ||
| The poorest region of the United States at the time was the ______________ ____________. | ||
| Leader of the CWA and later the WPA | ||
| Leader of the PWA | ||
| Law taxing liquor | ||
| Group set up by the NIRA that allowed industries to create codes of fair competition and collectively set floor prices for their products. Additionally, it helped workers by setting minimum wages and maximum weekly hours. | ||
| Agency that helped stabilize the mortgage market. | ||
| Subsection of the WPA that provided employment for young males. |
