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| 348553942 | Herbert Hoover | He was the president during the Great Depression. He was swept in before the depression and swept out with equal force. He claimed that he kept the conditions of the Great Depression from getting worse than they were. | |
| 348553943 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Fifth cousin of Theodore Roosevelt. He was tall handsome, and many claimed he was arrogant as well. However after he recovered from his health condition he became a lot more humble. Prior to running for president he was the governor of New York. | |
| 348553944 | Eleanor Roosevelt | She was Theodore's legs during his period of bad health. She had a strong voice and always supported the oppressed. | |
| 348553945 | Harley Smooth Tariff | In his desperation to regain popularity after Roosevelt stole his campaign, Hoover claimed that restoring this tariff would be helpful for bringing conditions back to normal. This tariff increased tariffs. | |
| 348553946 | Relief and Recovery | Had short term goals and provided immediate recovery. Especially for the first two years after the depression. | |
| 348553947 | Reform | Long term reform that dealt with current wrong doings, and the things that put us in the depression in the first place. Insurance, and usage of natural resources were two things that were taken into consideration. | |
| 348553948 | Emergency Banking Relief Act of 1933 | This declared a one week banking holiday to allow people to calm down and stop targeting the banks. Gave Roosevelt the authority to manage banks. | |
| 348553949 | Fireside Chats | Roosevelt had total of 30 of these with america. | |
| 348553950 | Glass Steagall Banking Reform Act | This provided the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation which insured individual deposits up to 5000 dollars. people started to start trusting banks again. | |
| 348553951 | Gold Standard | Roosevelt got rid of this. He had congress buy all of the gold at higher prices to create inflation and make paying loans easier. | |
| 348553952 | Civilian Conservation corps | Provided 3 million people with jobs by putting them in fresh aired government camps. The young mes had to fight fires, reforestation, stop flooding, and etc. They were required to send a lot of their earnings back home to help support their families. | |
| 348553953 | Federal Emergency Relief Act | This act was aimed to help unemployed adults and it was a means of short term immediate relief. It was headed by the zealous Henry Hopkins. | |
| 348553954 | The Agricultural Adjustment Act | This act gave lots of money to farmers to help farmers pay their mortgages. | |
| 348553955 | The Home Owners' Loan Corporation | This helped all middle class homeowners except farmers refinance their homes and get lower mortgage rates. This helped the democratic government really receive the support the middle class. | |
| 348553956 | The Civil Works Administration | This aimed to give purely temporary jobs to people struggling in the winter. People were given boondoggler jobs which were really pointless and menial to help people. This was a branch of the FERA and Henry Hopkins also headed this. | |
| 348553957 | Father Charles Coughlin | He was a priest who supported Roosevelt at first but them was against his new deal. He spoke against FDR's New Deal over the Radio. | |
| 348553958 | Huey P. Long | Popular for his Share the Wealth program. He thought that every family was to receive 5000$ from middle class families. He was senator of Louisiana. His main general was general l k Smith. | |
| 348553959 | Townshend | This guy was California and he said that every senior citizen should receive 200$ a month so long as that money was spent within that month. The math of this added to a crazy number. | |
| 348553960 | Works Progress Administration | Put 11 million on public works, and gave 9 million people jobs. It gave jobs to high schoolers, college students, actors, directors, and writers. | |
| 348553961 | National Recovery Administration | By far one of the most complicated programs aimed at providing aid for industry, labor, and the unemployed. There were maximum working hours, minimum wages, and the ability to have their own representatives when bargaining. However this was shot down by Supreme Court. Philidelphia Eagles were named after this. | |
| 348553962 | Public Works Administration | A better version of the national recovery administration. Aimed to help the unemployed and industrial recovery. Secretary of interior aimed at long range recovery by spending 4 billion on 34,000 projects. | |
| 348553963 | Harold L. Ickes | Aimed at long range recovery under the Public Works Administration. | |
| 348553964 | 21st Amendment | Got rid of prohibition | |
| 348553965 | Agricultural Adjustment Act | Paid farmers to farm less so that there would not be a surplus of food that would cause prices to lower. However, this ended up making unemployment worse, and also this ended up killing a lot of pigs unnecessarily. | |
| 348553966 | Soil Conservation and Atollment Acts | These acts encouraged people to plant crops that replenished soil or damaged it less or let it lie fallow. | |
| 348553967 | The Second Agricultural Adjusment Act | This also paid farmers NOT to farm. However, it was passed by Supreme Court. | |
| 348553968 | Frazier Lemke Act Bankruptcy Act | Made the suspensions of mortagages possible after the dust bowl. It was supposed to work for five years, however it only worked for 1 year. | |
| 348553969 | Resettlement Administration | task of putting near farmless farmers on farms. | |
| 348553970 | Commissioner of Indian Affairs | Headed by John Collier, reverses assimilation policies and encourages saving the indian culture and traditions. Not all indians liked it saying that it would make them museum exhibits. | |
| 348553971 | The Federal Securities Act | Required promoters to transmit to the investor sworn information regarding the soundness of their stocks and bonds., | |
| 348553972 | The Securities and Exchange Comission | Was designed to make the stockmarket more of a trade markets than casinos. | |
| 348553973 | Electric Power Industry | Was charging a lot for electricity so this resulted in TVA, when Tennessee investigated to see how electrifier actually cost. Made a hydroelectric power plant and provided lots of poor families with electricity and improved their lives. | |
| 348553974 | Federal Housing Administration | Stimulate the building industry by giving small home loans. | |
| 348553975 | Housing Authority | lent money to states or communities for low cost construction. For the first time in american history slums stopped growing. | |
| 348553976 | The Social Security act of 1935 | The greatest victory of the New Deal because it provided pension and insurance for old aged, delinquent children, and other dependants by taxing employees and employers. | |
| 348553977 | Wagner Act | replaced the National Labor Relations Act. Guaranteed the right of unions to collectively bargain with management. | |
| 348553978 | Committee for Industrial Organization | Organized by John L Lewis, because the wagner act gave laborers the right to 0organize themselfes. Origionally was a branch of the AFL. Had a victory against the General Motors, and the US Steel Company. CIO eventually broke from AFL. | |
| 348553979 | Fair Labor Standards Act | set up minimum wage and maximum hour standards and forbid children under the age of 16 from working. | |
| 348553980 | Alfred M, Landon | Kansas governer who was nominated by the republicans and ran against FDR> He was a weak speaker and was opposed to FDR's spending but supported a lot of other things about him so people called him weak. | |
| 348553981 | American Liberties League | Was formed by conservative Democrats and Rebublicans who claimed that the New Deal Schemes were socialistic. He primarily won because he never forgot about the gorgotten man. | |
| 348553982 | 20th Ammendment | Made the lame duck period only six weeks. | |
| 348553983 | Second Term | FDR had control of congress but wanted more control over the supreme court. So he said that all people that were over the age of 70 should have one more person added. this was not agreed on by congress for once. Roosevelt was trying to become a dictator. | |
| 348553984 | Owen J. Roberts | supreme court justice who supported FDR who ended up getting his way and getting the supreme of Sumpreme court. However, the initial resistance to changing the system shows that the US likes its government system and doesn;t want to tamper with it. | |
| 348553985 | John Menyard Keynes | FDR uses his bold progrmam of defecit spending to stimulate the economy but congress was opposed to this. | |
| 348553986 | Reorganization Act | Due to FDR's pressure congress gave limited powers for administrative reforms . | |
| 348553987 | Hatch Act | Barred federal admin officials except the highest policy making officials from active political compaigning. |
