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Chapter 34 APUSH
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who won the election of 1932? | Franklin Roosevelt |
| What was Eleanor Roosevelt's influence on America? | she battled for the impoverished and the oppressed |
| What was Roosevelt's plan? | The New Deal |
| Why was Hoover humiliated? | Roosevelt got the election by a landslide |
| What were the three R's? | relied, recovery and reform |
| What was Roosevelt's plan to tackle money and banking? | Emergency Banking relief act of 1933 Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act, creating the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and fireside chats |
| Why did Roosevelt put inflation into play? | he believed would relieve debtors' burdens and stimulate new production; through gold buying the Treasury purchased gold at increasing prices, increasing the dollar price of gold. This policy increased the amount of dollars in circulation |
| How did Roosevelt plan to helpthe jobless? | The Cililian Conservation Corps Rederal Emergency Relief Act Ferderal Emergency Relief Administration Civil Works Administration Agricultural Adjustment Act Home Owners' Loan Corporation |
| What was the National Recovery Administration designed for? | to assist industry, labor and the unemployed |
| What was the Public Works Administration? | industrial recovery and for unemployment relief |
| What was the Agricultural Adjustment Administration? | it established parity prices for commondities. they also paid farmers to reduce their crop acreage, eliminated surpluses while at the same time increasing unemployment. |
| What were the Soil conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936? | the reduction of crop acreage was now achieved by paying farmers to plant soil-conserving crops. |
| What was the Second Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938? | it continued conservation payments, if farmers obeyed acreage reductions theu would be eligible for parity payments. |
| What was the Dust Bowl? | partially caused by the cultivation of countless acres, dry-farming techniques, and mechanization. |
| What was the Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act? | it made possible a suspension of mortgage foreclosures for 5 years. It was struck down in Surpreme Court. |
| What was the Resettlement Administration? | it moved near-farmliess farmers to better lands. |
| What was the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934? | it encouraged Native American tribes to establish self-government and to preserve their native crafts and traditions. |
| What is the Federal Securities Act? | it required promoters to transmit the investor sworn information regarding the soundness of their stocks and bonds. |
| What was the Securities and exchange Commission? | it was designed as a watchdog administrative agency. |
| What was the Tennessee Valley Authority? | it was assigned the task of predicting how much the production and distribution of electricty would cost so that a 'yardstick' could be set up to test the fairness of rates charged by private companies. |
| What is the Federal Housing Administration? | to speed recovery and better homes. |
| What is the United States Housing Authority? | it was designed to lend money to states or comminities for low-cost construction. |
| What were the Acts the New Deal set in place for Unskilled Labor? | National Labor Relations Act National Labor Relations Board Committee for Industrial Organization Fair Labor Standards Act |
| What was the Reorganization Act? | it gave the president limited powers for administrative reforms, including the new Executive Office in the White House |
| What was the Hatch Act of 1939? | it barred federal administrative officials from active political campaigning and soliciting. |
| What was the national deby in 1939? | 40,440,000,000 |
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