Out of Many Chapter 24 Flashcards

1263557261	Great Depression	The nation's worst economic crisis, extending through the 1930s, producing unprecedented bank failures, unemployment, and industrial and agricultural collapse
1263557262	Bonus Army	Unemployed veterans of World War I gathering in Washington in 1932 demanding payment of service bonuses not due until 1945
1263557263	New Deal	The economic and political policies of the Roosevelt administration in the 1930s
1263557264	Fireside Chat	Speeches broadcast nationally over the radio in which President Franklin D. Roosevelt explained complex issues and programs in plain language, as though his listeners were gathered around the fireside with him
1263557265	Emergency Bank Act	1933 act that gave the President broad discretionary powers over all banking transactions and foreign exchange
1263557266	Tennessee Valley Act (TVA)	Federal regional planning agency established to promote conservation, produce electric power, and encourage economic development in seven southern states
1263557267	National Industrial Recovery Act	1933 act that was meant to be a systematic plan for economic recovery
1263557268	Social Security Act of 1935	Act establishing federal old-age pensions and employment insurance
1263557269	National Labor Relations Act	Act establishing federal guarantee of right to organize trade unions and collective bargaining
1263557270	Congress of Industrial Organizations	An alliance of industrial unions that spurred the 1930s organizational drive among the mass-production industries
1263557271	New Deal Coalition	Coalition that included traditional-minded white southern Democrats, big-city political machines, industrial workers of all races, trade unionists, and many Depression-hit farmers
1263557272	1936 Fair Labor Standards Act	Act that established the first federal minimum wage (25 cents an hour) and set a maximum worksheet of fourty-four hours for all employees engaged in interstate commerce