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maxush-New Deal
Question | Answer |
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Dem. FDR Rep. Hoover FDR wins | Election of 1932 |
FDR's program to deal with depression for America | New Deal |
direct assistance to the people | relief |
measures to end the depression | recovery |
measures to prevent another depression | reform |
disease that left FDR's legs paralyzed | polio |
moves inauguration from March 3 to Jan. 20 | 20th Amendment |
currency backed by gold, FDR takes US off | gold standard |
banks closed to stop bank runs | bank holiday |
first hundred days of FDR's administration, 15 pieces of major legislation | Hundred Days |
included representatives from: New Nationalism, Anti Big Business, New Freedom | FDR's advisers |
FDR's weekly addresses on the radio to American people | fireside chats |
spending more than is brought in, used to fund New Deal programs | deficit spending |
business and political leaders opposed to New Deal | American Liberty League |
"Share our wealth program", income over $5 million confiscated and redistributed | Huey Long |
called for government control of banks | Fr. Charles Coughlan |
Proposed pension plan for workers over 60, $200, had to spend, and retire | Dr. Francis Townsend |
NIRA unconstitutional, to much power for federal government, legislature cannot delegate its powers | Schecter v. US |
neutral party issues ruling in a dispute | binding arbitration |
organized industrial unions, Committee for Industrial Organization | CIO |
organization of all workers in auto industry, United Auto Workers | UAW |
Dem. FDR Rep. A. Landon, shift in voting base of Democratic party-women, minorities, progressives, and intellectuals | 1936 Election |
Sec. of labor, first woman in cabinet | Frances Perkins |
National Youth Commission, leader of "Black Cabinet" advisers to FDR | Mary McLeod Bethune |
AAA unconstitutional, tax on one group to pay another | US v. Butler |
FDR wanted to add a justice for each justice 70 and older maximum of 15 | court packing plan |
economic decline, sudden rise in unemployment, 1937 | recession |
Sec. of Treasury that wanted to balance the budget and cut spending | Henry Morganthau |
economist that believed government spending would stimulate economic growth | John Maynard Keynes |
subsidized loans to builders to buy blocks of slums and build low-cost housing | National Housing Act |
established a minimum wage, maximum work week, abolished child labor | Fair Labor Standards Act |
Federal government can regulate production within a state | NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel |
Federal government can regulate consumption within a state | Wickard v. Filburn |
mediating role of the federal government | broker state |
government provided safeguards and relief programs to protect people from economic disaster | safety net |