Chapter 33 Vocab from The American Pageant
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| 1195540192 | Brain Trust | Group of expert policy advisers who worked with FDR in the 1930s to end the great depression | 1 | |
| 1195540193 | New Deal | The historic period (1933-1940) in the U.S. during which President Franklin Roosevelt's economic policies were implemented. | 2 | |
| 1195540194 | Hundred Days | the special session of Congress that Roosevelt called to launch his New Deal programs. The special session lasted about three months | 3 | |
| 1195540195 | Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act | Government legislation that made 750 million dollars that had once been kept in the governments gold reserves now able to be used in the creation of loans. This allowed the banks to reopen and it gave the president the power to regulate banking transactions and foreign exchange. It also took the U.S off the gold standard and introduced FDIC. | 4 | |
| 1195540196 | Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) | New Deal program that hired unemployed men to work on natural conservation projects | 5 | |
| 1195540197 | National Recovery Administration (NRA) | Government agency that was part of the New Deal and dealt with the industrial sector of the economy. It allowed industries to create fair competition which were intended to reduce destructive competition and to help workers by setting minimum wages and maximum weekly hours. | 6 | |
| 1195540198 | Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) | New Deal farm agency that attempted to raise prices by paying farmers to reduce their production of crops and animals | 7 | |
| 1195540199 | Dust Bowl | Hundred of thousands of "Okes" (people migrants came from Mexico) stremed out of the Dust Dowl of Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Colorado, where chronic drought and harmful agricultural practices blasted crops and hopes | 8 | |
| 1195540200 | Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) | June 1933. Innovative attempt at regional planning. Series of dams in seven states on the Tennessee river to control floods, ease navigation, and produce electricity. Endures to this day. Relief and Reform | 9 | |
| 1195540201 | Social Security Act | guaranteed retirement payments for enrolled workers beginning at age 65; set up federal-state system of unemployment insurance and care for dependent mothers and children, the handicapped, and public health | 10 | |
| 1195540202 | Wagner Act | 1935; established National Labor Relations Board; protected the rights of most workers in the private sector to organize labor unions, to engage in collective bargaining, and to take part in strikes and other forms of concerted activity in support of their demands. | 11 | |
| 1195540203 | Fair Labor Standards Act | 1938 act which provided for a minimum wage and restricted shipments of goods produced with child labor | 12 | |
| 1195540204 | Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) | Group which emerged from the American Federation of Labor in 1938 which became and influential labor group. Merged with the AFL in 1955 | 13 | |
| 1195540205 | Court-packing plan | President FDR's failed 1937 attempt to increase the number of US Supreme Court Justices from 9 to 15 in order to save his 2nd New Deal programs from constitutional challenges | 14 | |
| 1195540206 | Keynesianism | the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes who advocated government monetary and fiscal programs intended to stimulate business activity and increase employment | 15 |
