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Ch 13 vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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1. New Deal | programs created by FDR during the GD to promote economic recovery and social reform |
2. Fireside Chat | radio broadcasters in which FDR explained his new deal to the Americans |
3. FDIC | created federally bank insured bank deposits to prevent bank failures |
4. TVA | gov built a series of dams to prevent flooding and sell electricity |
5. CCC | sent 250,000 men to work camps providing jobs for young men and money for families |
6. NIRA | created NRA to enforce codes of fair competition, minimum wages, and to permit collective bargaining of workers |
7. PWA | received 3.3 billion appropriation from congress for public work projects |
8. Second New Deal | activity created by FDR in 1935 to solve problems caused by the GD |
9. WPA | employed 8 million workers in construction, art and theater |
10. Pump Priming | economic theory that public worker projects because they put more money into the hands of the consumers who would buy more products |
11. Social Security Act | law that set up pension system for the retirees, established unemployment insurance and insurance for workers related to accidents |
12. Wagner Act | New Deal law that abolished unfair labor practices and gave workers right to collective bargaining |
13. Collective Bargaining | when employees bargain with labor unions about wages, hours, and working conditions |
14. Fair Labor Standards Act | law that set a minimum wage and minimum working hours of 44 a week, and outlawed child labor 1935 |
15. CIO | responsible for development, implementation, and operation on a firms information technology policy |
16. Sit Down Strikes | when workers stop working and occupy the work place until demands are met |
17. Court Packing | FDR plan to add six new justices to the nine- member supreme court |
18. Black Cabinet | African Americans leaders who severed as unofficial advisers to FDR |
19. Indian New Deal | gave Indians greater control over their affairs and provided funding for schools and hospitals |
20. New Deal Coalition | political form formed by groups who supported FDR and his new deal |
21. Welfare State | gov that is responsible for the poor, sick, elderly, and unemployed |
22. The Wizard Of Oz | first movie to ever be in color 1935 |
23. War of the Worlds | epic science fiction disaster film |
24. Federal Art Project | division of the WPA that hired unemployed artists to create art work on buildings |
25. Mural | large picture painted directly on a wall or celling |