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| 143018225 | New Deal | The _____ was Roosevelt's plan for getting out of the Depression (relief, recovery, and reform). | |
| 143018226 | lame-duck | time period between FDR's election in November and his inauguration in March | |
| 143018227 | Fear | What FDR said we should fear. | |
| 143018228 | Hundred days | _____- the 1st 100 days Roosevelt was in office. This was a time of many new programs to try to improve the economy. | |
| 143018229 | Bank Holiday | _____- time when Roosevelt closed all U.S. banks to see if the banks were financially healthy. He wanted to restore confidence in the banking system. | |
| 143018230 | Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) | The _____ insured bank deposits up to $2,500 initially | |
| 143018231 | Securities and Exchange Comission (SEC) | The _____ regulated the stock market. | |
| 143018232 | FERA (Federal Emergency Relief Administration) | Roosevelt's relief organization called _____ which helped people find jobs. | |
| 143018233 | Public works programs | _____ were government-funded projects to build public facilities. | |
| 143018234 | CWA; 4; | The _____ employed __ million workers to build roads, parks, airports, and other facilities. | |
| 143018235 | CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps); 2.5 | The _____ put __ million young, unmarried men to work maintaining forests, beaches, and parks. | |
| 143018236 | John Collier | _____ was Roosevelt's commissioner of Indian Affairs. | |
| 143018237 | NRA (National Recovery Administration) | The _____ tried to balance the unstable economy through extensive planning by regulating businesses to make sure they were practicing fair business practices. | |
| 143018238 | PWA | The _____ launched major public work projects like building the Grand Coulee Dam. | |
| 143018239 | Federal Housing Act (FHA) | The _____ was created to improve housing standards and conditions and to insure mortgages (loans). | |
| 143018240 | AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration) | The _____ raised farm prices by paying subsidies or government financial assisstance to farmers who cut production of certain crops. | |
| 143018241 | Tennesee Valley Authority (TVA) | The _____ provided cheap electric power, flood control, and recreational opportunities to the entire Tennesee Valley. | |
| 143018242 | Brain trust | _____- informal group of intellectuals who were FDR's advisors. | |
| 143018243 | Frances Perkins | President Roosevelt appointed the 1st woman cabinet member when he appointed _____ as Sec. of Labor. | |
| 143018244 | Eleanor Roosevelt | Her husband's greatest advisor. | |
| 143018245 | NRA | Some "New Deal" legislation failed and the Supreme Court said the _____ was unconstitutional. | |
| 143018246 | Second New Deal | The _____ went into effect. This caused more social welfare, benefits, stricter control over business, stronger support for unions, and higher taxes on the rich. | |
| 143018247 | Rural Electrification Administration (REA) | Through the _____ 98% of the farms eventually had electricity compared to 10% at the beginning of the Depression. | |
| 143018248 | a) set up old-age pensions and survivor's benefits. b) set up unemployment insurance. c) set up aid for dependent children, the blind, and the disabled. | In 1905, Congress set up the Social Security system which: | |
| 143018249 | Alfred M. Landon | Roosevelt won re-election in 1936 when he defeated _____, the Republican, by a landslide. | |
| 143018250 | Republicans; Democrats, Progressives, and Socialists | _____ thought the New Deal went too far. Some _____ did not think the New Deal went far enough. | |
| 143018251 | Revenue Act of 1935; Wealth Tax Act | Wealthy people disliked Roosevelt because of the _____ or the _____ which raised taxes on the rich. | |
| 143018252 | wealthy | Social Security was resented by the _____. | |
| 143018253 | American Liberty League; Alfred E. Smith | The _____ led by _____, a leading business leader, said the New Deal limited individual freedom. | |
| 143018254 | Progressives and Socialists | _____ charged that the New Deal didn't help enough people. | |
| 143018255 | Father Coughlin; nationalization | _____, who was called the "Radio Priest", was a demagogue. He was openly anti-Jewish and praised Hitler and Mussolini. He believed in _____ which was a government takeover and ownership of banks and the redistribution of wealth. | |
| 143018256 | Huey Long; 1$; $5 | _____ was another demagogue. He wanted to limit individual income to __ million and inheritance to __ million and then redistribute the wealth. | |
| 143018257 | deficit spending | Some modern day critics disliked subsidies when the country needed food. They also criticized "_____" development which was paying out more money from the annual federal budget than the government receives in revenues. | |
| 143018258 | pack the Supreme Court | Roosevelt lost some popularity by trying to _____ with liberal justices by raising the number of justices in office. He was later forced to drop the idea when the Republican and southern Democrats sided together. | |
| 143018259 | recession | _____- a period of slow business activity. | |
| 143018260 | recession | There was some improvement in the Depression in the mid 1930's but a _____ hit the country after Roosevelt cut some of his federal programs. | |
| 143018261 | 36% | Union membership rose about 7.5 million people during the Depression and by 1935 some __ of Americans were unionized. | |
| 143018262 | American Federation of Labor; Committee for Industrial Organization | The AFL stands for _____ and the CIO stands for _____. | |
| 143018263 | General Motors; Frank Murphy | _____ in Flint, Michigan was shut down by a sit-down strike. President Roosevelt and MIchigan governor _____ refused to send in the militia. | |
| 143018264 | unconstitutional | The Supreme Court eventually declared sit-down strikes _____. | |
| 143018265 | John Steinbeck | The Grapes of Wrath by _____ were written during the Depression. | |
| 143018266 | Radio; Movies | _____ and _____ became a major source of entertainment during the Depression. | |
| 143018267 | WPA | The _____ provided numerous jobs for unemployed artists, musicians, historians, theater people, and writers. | |
| 143018268 | FDIC, SEC, and Social Security | Much of the New Deal legislation is still in existence today, like the _____, the _____, and _____. | |
| 143018269 | World War II | Event that actually ended the Depression |
