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APUSH Chapter 34
APUSH 2014/2015
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | Democratic candidate in the election of 1932; beat Hoover |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | FDR's wife, a very active first lady |
| Harry Hopkins | head of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Civil Works Administration |
| Frances Perkins | Secretary of Labor; first woman cabinet member |
| Father Coughlin | a Catholic priest who did radio broadcasts about his anti-New Deal ideas until he was shut down by the government |
| Huey Long | Louisiana senator who opposed the New Deal and came up with the idea of "Share the Wealth" to give $5k to every family |
| Francis Townsend | a retired physician who attracted followers with his plan to give retired senior citizens pensions |
| Harold Ickes | Secretary of the Interior; headed the Public Works Administration |
| George W. Norris | Nebraska senator who was champion of the CVA in the 1930's |
| John L. Lewis | president of the United Mine Workers who led the movement to organize mine workers |
| Alfred M. Landon | liberal Kansas governor who opposed FDR in the 1936 election |
| parity | set a price for a product the same real value it had before 1909 |
| New Deal | FDR's plan to balance budget and decrease the deficit |
| Brain Trust | nickname given to the small group of reformers who served in FDR's cabinet |
| Hundred Days Congress | Congress formed by FDR that passed a series of laws to help the country cope with the Great Depression |
| Three "R's" | relief, recovery, reform |
| Glass-Steagall Act | created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation which insured individual bank deposits up to $5,000 |
| Civilian Conservation Corps | provided employment for 3 million men in government camps |
| Works Progress Administration | the $11 billion program authorized by Congress in 1935 to employ people on useful projects for internal improvements |
| National Recovery Act | created the National Recovery Administration which assisted industry, labor, and the unemployed |
| Schechter case | 1935; ruled that the president could not delegate legislative powers |
| Public Works Administration | headed by Harold L. Ickes; spent over $4 billion on thousands of projects |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act | established "parity prices" for basic commodities and also paid farmers to reduce their crop acreage which eliminated surpluses and increased unemployment |
| Dust Bowl | late 1933; partially caused by over-cultivation, etc. |
| Securities and Exchange Commission | a watchdog administrative agency |
| Tennessee Valley Authority | assigned with the task of predicting how much the production and distribution of energy would cost for the Hoover Dam |
| Federal Housing Authority | created to speed recovery and better homes |
| Social Security Act | provided for federal state unemployment; set aside specified categories of retired workers to receive regular payments from the government |
| Wagner Act | established the National Labor Relations Board |
| National Labor Relations Board | created by the National Labor Relations Act for administrative purposes of reinstating the right of labor to self-organize and bargain collectively |
| Congress of Industrial Organizations | AF of L joined with the CIO in 1938 to form this |
| Liberty League | a group of wealthy conservatives who organized to fight socialism and the New Deal |
| Roosevelt Coalition | the New Deal |
| 20th Amendment | shortened the period from election to inauguration by 6 weeks |
| 21st Amendment | ended prohibition |
| Court-packing scheme | Roosevelts scheme to appoint new justices to the Supreme Court |
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