303769910 | New Deal | programs that aimed for relief, recovery, reform. | |
303769911 | short range goals | relief and immediate recovery. | |
303769912 | long range goals | permanent recovery and reform of current abuses. | |
303769913 | Emergency Banking Relief Act | invested the president with power to regulate banking transactions and foreign exchange and to reopen solvent banks. | |
303769914 | Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act | provided for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. | |
303769915 | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | insured individual deposits up to $5,000. | |
303769916 | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | ended the disgraceful epidemic of bank failures from the Andrew Jackson days. | |
303769917 | Civilian Conservation Corps | provided employment in fresh air government camps for about 3 million uniformed young men, many of whom might have been driven to criminal habits. | |
303769918 | Federal Emergency Relief Act | first major effort of the new congress to grapple with the millions of unemployed adult. | |
303769919 | Federal Emergency Relief Administration | was handed over to Harry L. Hopkins | |
303769920 | Harry Hopkins | his agency granted about $3 billion to the states for direct dole payments or preferably for wages on work projects. | |
303769921 | Agricultural Adjustment Act | made available many millions of dollars to help farmers meet their mortgages. | |
303769922 | Home Owner's Loan Corporation | delighted to refinance mortgages on non farm homes, it ultimately assisted about a million badly pinched households. | |
303769923 | Home Owners' Loan Corporation | bolted the political loyalties of relieved middle-class homeowners securely to the Democratic Party. | |
303769924 | Civil Works Administration | focused on help for the unemployed. | |
303769925 | Civil Works Administration | branch of FERA under Hopkins. | |
303769926 | Civil Works Administration | designed to provide purely temporary jobs during the cruel winter emergency. | |
303769927 | Father Charles Coughlin | "microphone messiah" | |
303769928 | Father Charles Coughlin | Catholic radio priest in Michigan. | |
303769929 | Father Charles Coughlin | slogan was "social justice" | |
303769930 | Huey Long | senator that was shot by an assassin in the Louisiana state capitol in 1935. | |
303769931 | Huey Long | "share our wealth" program promised to make "every man a king" | |
303769932 | Francis Townsend | California doctor that had a plan for senior citizens. | |
303769933 | Francis Townsend | plan was for elders over 60 to receive $200/month that would have to be spent that month. | |
303769934 | Works Progress Administration | objective was employment on useful projects. | |
303769935 | National Recovery Administration | designed to assist industry, labor, and the unemployed. | |
303769936 | Public Works Administration | intended both for industrial recovery and for unemployment relief like the NRA. | |
303769937 | Harold Ickes | headed the Public Works Administration. | |
303769938 | Agricultural Adjustment Administration | established parity prices for basic commodities. | |
303769939 | Agricultural Adjustment Administration | would eliminate price depressing surpluses by paying growers to reduce their crop acreage. | |
303769940 | Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act | achieved the withdrawal of acreage from production by paying farmers to plant soil-conserving crops, or to let their land be fallow. | |
303769941 | Second Agricultural Adjustment Act | continued conservation payments if growers observed acreage restrictions on specified commodities they would be eligible for parity payments. | |
303769942 | Second Agricultural Adjustment Act | designed to give farmers more substantial share of the national income. | |
303769943 | Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act | made possible suspension of mortgage foreclosures by the Supreme Court. | |
303769944 | Resettlement Administration | task was removing near-farmless farmers to better land. | |
303769945 | Indian Reorganization Act | encouraged tribes to establish local self-government and to preserve their native crafts and traditions. | |
303769946 | Indian Reorganization Act | helped to stop the loss of Indian lands and revived tribes' interest in their identity and culture. | |
303769947 | Truth in Securities Act | required promoters to transmit to the investor sworn information regarding the soundness of their stocks and bonds. | |
303769948 | Securities and Exchange Commission | designed as a watchdog administrative agency. | |
303769949 | Securities and Exchange Commission | stock markets were to operate more as trading marts and loss as gambling casinos. | |
303769950 | Securities and Exchange Commission | was to protect the public against fraud, deception, and inside manipulation. | |
303769951 | Tennessee Valley Authority | largely a result of the steadfast vision and unfledging zeal of Senator George W. Norris. | |
303769952 | Tennessee Valley Authority | was by far the most revolutionary of all the New Deal schemes. | |
303769953 | Farm Security Administration | set up camps to house the Okies. | |
303769954 | Federal Housing Administration | used to speed recovery and better homes. | |
303769955 | US Housing Authority | an agency designed to lend money to states or communities for low-cost construction. | |
303769956 | Social Security Act | to cushion future depressions, they provided for federal-state unemployment insurance. | |
303769957 | Social Security Act | to provide security for old age, specified categories of retired workers were to receive regular payments from Washington. | |
303769958 | Wagner Act | created a powerful new National Labor Relations Board for administrative purposes and reasserted the right of labor to engage in self organization and to bargain collectively through representatives of its choice. |
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