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APUSH
CH.24
Food for Thought | Significance |
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Two new national agencies based in Washington, D.C. (NEW DEAL programs) | Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Works Progress Administration |
United Automobile Workers (UAW) | GM workers industrial union in Flint, Michigan 1936 |
National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) | Est. National Relations Board to oversee union elections and prohibit illegal anti-union activities by emplyoers |
sit-down strike | 1936 48 sit-downs involving ~90000 workers and in 1937 ~400000 workers participated in 477 sit-down strikes |
Women's Emergency Brigade | support by preparing food and maintaining militant picket lines for sit-down communities |
New Deal: | federal relief, Social Security system, new standards regulating minimum wages and maximum hours, and Washington-based efforts to improve the nation's housing. |
Key Topics: | Causes and consequences of the Great Depression; The politics of hard times; Franklin D. Roosevelt and the two New Deals; The expanding federal sphere in the South and West; American cultural life during the 30s; Legacies and limits of New Deal reform |
John J. Raskob | Chairman of the board of GM |
The Bull Market | stock market; ~1/3 of population owned stocks |
margin accounts, easy credit, and investment funds (similar to today's mutual funds) lured new stock holders | purchasing stocks by small down payment and, borrowing the rest from a broker, and using the shares as collateral, or security, on the loan. |
"Black Tuesday" | October 29, 1929 |
Causes of Great Depression | Stock Market crash inflamed |