AP US History Chapter 32 Flashcards
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| 6235938211 | Brain Trust | Group of expert policy advisers who worked with FDR in the 1930s to end the great depression | 0 | |
| 6235938212 | New Deal | A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression | 1 | |
| 6235938213 | Hundred Days | The special session of Congress that Roosevelt called to launch his New Deal programs. The special session lasted about three months: 100 days | 2 | |
| 6235938214 | Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act | Created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which insures the accounts of depositors of its member banks. It outlawed banks investing in the stock market | 3 | |
| 6235938215 | Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) | Hired young, unemployed people to do restoration projects throughout the country, employed over 3 million people | 4 | |
| 6235938216 | National Recovery Administration (NRA) | - Child labor was forbidden, and Section 7A of the NIRA guaranteed labor unions the right to organize and bargain collectively | 5 | |
| 6235938217 | Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) | Gave farmers money to reduce crop size to reduce production and bring up the value of crops | 6 | |
| 6235938218 | Dust Bowl | A drought in the 1930s that turned the Great Planes very dry | 7 | |
| 6235938219 | Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) | A relief, recovery, and reform effort that gave 2.5 million poor citizens jobs and land. It brought cheap electric power, low-cost housing, cheap nitrates, and the restoration of eroded soil | 8 | |
| 6235938220 | Social Security Act | (FDR) 1935, 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 | 9 | |
| 6235938221 | Wagner Act | 1935, also National Labor Relations Act; granted rights to unions; allowed collective bargaining | 10 | |
| 6235938222 | Fair Labor Standards Act | 1938 Act which provided for a minimum wage and restricted shipments of goods produced with child labor | 11 | |
| 6235938223 | Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) | A federation of labor union for all unskilled workers. It provided a national labor union for unskilled workers, unlike the AFL, which limited itself to skilled workers | 12 | |
| 6235938224 | 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 | 13 | |
| 6235938225 | Keynesianism | An economic theory based on the thoughts of British economist John Maynard Keynes, holding that central banks should adjust interest rates and governments should use deficit spending and tax policies to increase purchasing power and hence prosperity | 14 | |
| 6235938226 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Democratic president who created the New Deal to counter the effects of the Great Depression | 15 | |
| 6235938227 | Eleanor Roosevelt | A strong first lady who supported civil rights | 16 | |
| 6235938228 | Harry L. Hopkins | head of the Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA); it was created to distribute $500mil in relief aid to state and local agencies | 17 | |
| 6235938229 | Father Charles Coughlin | A Catholic priest from Michigan who was critical of FDR on his radio show. His radio show morphed into being severly against Jews during WWII and he was eventually kicked off the air, however before his fascist (?) rants, he was wildly popular among those who opposed FDR's New Deal | 18 | |
| 6235938230 | Francis E. Townsend | A doctor and critic of FDR's who proposed that everyone 60 years of age or older should get $200 a month as long as they spent it within 30 days | 19 | |
| 6235938231 | Huey P. Long | A presidential candidate in the 1936 election known for his Share the Wealth program. He and other demagogues pushed FDR to move the New Deal to help people directly | 20 | |
| 6235938232 | Frances Perkins | 1st woman in cabinet | 21 | |
| 6235938233 | Mary McLeod Bethune | United States educator who worked to improve race relations and educational opportunities for Black Americans (1875-1955) | 22 | |
| 6235938234 | Robert F. Wagner | Leader of Tammany Hall headed investigation of Shirtwaist Fire. Outcome was 56 worker protection laws incl fire safety inspection | 23 |