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Ch 22-The New Deal
Ch 22-The New Deal - History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| (1882-1945) Thirty Second President of the US; he was elected president four times. He led the US during the major cises of the Great Depression and World War II | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| Government-funded building projects | Public Works |
| Conversational radio addresses given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt | Fireside Chats |
| (1884-1962) Wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, social reformer, writer, and diplomat; she supported equal rights for women and African Americans. She served as the first US ambassador to the United Nations. | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| (1933) the first hundred days of Franklin Roosevelt's term as president | Hundred Days |
| A plan by President Franklin Roosevelt intended to bring economic relief, recovery, and reforms to the counry after the Great Depression | New Deal |
| A government payment tha tis aimed at achieving some public benefit | Subsidy |
| (1893-1935) Louisiana politician and senator, he criticized the New Deal and set up the Share Our Wealth Society. He wanted to tax wealth Americans and give more money to the poor | Huey P. Long |
| (1891 - 1979) Catholic priest and popular radio broadcaster; his broadcasts praided Hitler and criticized Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal policies | Father Charles Coughlin |
| (1867-1960) New Deal critic who focused on the needs of older Americans; his ieas for a pension plan for retirees contributed to the formation of Social Security | Dr. Francis Townsend |
| (1935) a new set of programs in the spring of 1935 including additional banking reforms, new tax laws, new relief programs | Second New Deal |
| A system for providing pensions for many Americans age 65 and older | Social Security |
| (1940 - )American politician and civil rights activist; he took part in m a j or protest and sit-ins in the 1960's and became the head of the Student Nonviolent Coordination Committee (SNCC). He was elected to Congress in 1986. | John Lewis |
| A group that broke away from the AFL to form the Committee for Industrial Organization | CIO |
| A strike in which workers refuse to work or leave the workplace until a settlement is reached | Sit-Down Strike |
| When government spends more money than it takes | Deficit |
| (1883 - 1946) British economist; his revoluntionary economic theory provided the basis for some of Franklin B. Roosevelt's successful policies. | John Maynard Keynes |
| (1882 - 1965) First American woman to head an executive or cabinet department; she served as secretary of labor in Franklin D. Rossevelt's administration. She played an i mportant role in shaping New Deal jobs programs and labor policy | Frances Perkins |
| Group of African Americans Frankling Roosevelt appointed to key government positions; they served a unofficial advisors to the president | Black Cabinet |
| (1875-1955) African American leader and advocate; she served as Director of Negro Affairs in the National Youth Administration and led the Black Cabinet of unofficial African American advisors gto Franklin D. Roosevelt | Mary McLeod Bethune |
| (1895-1965) American photographer who recorded the Great Depression by taking pictures of the unemployed and rural poor | Dorothea Lange |
| A type of jass music popular in the 1930's | Swing |
| (1897-1993) Singer who fought discrimination in the 1930's; Elanor Roosevelt arranged for her to perform on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in 1939. | Marian Anderson |
| The lowest wage an employer can legally pay a worker | Minimum Wage |
| The person who currently holds a public office | Incumbent |
| What were the key events of the presidential election of 1932? (Section One) | * |
| What was the nature of Franklin and Elanor Roosevelt's political partnership? (Section One) | * |
| What intial actions did Roosevelt take to stablize the ecomy? (Section One) | * |
| How did the New Deal run into trouble in Roosevelt's first term? (Section One) | * |
| What were the key programs in the Second Hundred Days? (Section Two) | * |
| How did the New Deal programs help to revive organized labor? (Section Two) | * |
| What were the key events of the 1936 election? (Section Two) | * |
| Why was 1937 a troubled year for Roosevelt and the Second New Deal? (Section Two) | * |
| How did the public roles of women and African Americans change during the New Deal? (Section Three) | * |
| How did artists and writers of the era tell the story of the Great Depression? (Section Three) | * |
| What forms of popular entertainment were popular during the Great Depression? (Section Three) | * |
| What was the impact of the new Deal on the nation in the 1930's? (Section Four) | * |
| In what ways was the impact of the New Deal limited? (Section Four) | * |
| How did the New Deal come to an end? | * |
| Write a brief definition for gross national product. (Section One) | GNP - Gross National Product - the total value of all goods and services produced in the nation |
| What effect did America's mood have on individual's financial decisions?(Section One) | * |
| Defend the widespread American investment in stocks in the 1920's. (Section One) | * |
| Name two signs of weaknesses in the American economy in the 1920's.(Section One) | * |
| Why is it significant that much of the nation's weatlh was owned by a small number of people? (Section One) | * |
| How might the lack of available credit hurt the nations' ecomoney in the 1930's? (Section One) | * |
| What was Black Tuesday? (Section One) | Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the day that the stock market crashed. |
| Describe how the drop in the stock market brought ruin to so many investors. (Section One) | * |
| Why would an investor who had not bought stocks on margin have been in a better position to survive the crash than one who had? (Section One) | * |
| How did the crash affect individual investors, brokers, and bnaks? (Section One) | * |
| Why did the stock market crash have such a powerful impact on the overall ecomomy? (Section One) | * |
| Defend Hoover's belief that the economy would soon recover. (Section One) | * |
| Briefly describe the Great Depression and its main effects. (Section Two) | * |
| What is the significance of the fact that there were few government relief programs in the arly 1930's? (Section Two) | * |
| How do you think the federal government will respond to the Great Depression? (Section Two) | * |
| Hooverville (Section Two) | Makeshift shanytown that sprung up during the Great Depression |
| What can you infer from the fact that the shantytown of homeless Americans came to be know as Hoovervilles? (Section Two) | * |
| What do you think the political effect of the Great Depression on Preisent Hoover will be? Explain? (Section Two) | * |
| Oakies (Section Two) | Nickname for a farmer who lef the Dust Bowl in search for work. |
| How were oakies similar to hobos? (Section Two) | They were travelers. |
| Do you think those affected by the Dust Bowl were victimes of nature or responsible for their own fate? (Section Two) | * |
| What were two key ideas that helped shape Hoover's core beliefs? (Section Three) | * |
| In what ways were Hoover's basic beliefs similiar to those of President Harding and Coolidge? (Section Three) | * |
| What is your opionion about Hoover's belief in the importance of rugged individualism? (Section Three) | * |
| A orgnization that is owned and controlled by its memebers (Section Three) | Cooperative |
| A program that provided aid to struggling banks and other institutions during the Great Depression. (Section Three) | Reconstructive Finance Corporation |
| (1930) extremely high tariff on farm products and manufactured goods (Section Three) | Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act |
| How effective was President Hoover's preferred approach to government in responding to the hardships of the Great Depression? (Section Three) | * |
| Defend Hoover's committment to avoiding direct relief to individuals. (Section Three) | * |
| What was the general reaction of the American people to Hoover's performance? (Section Three) | * |
| How did Hoover's core beliefs contrast with what many American's wanted? (Section Three) | * |
| What are some relief programs that Hoover's democratic opponet might suggest? (Section Three) | * |
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