Ch15 History – Flashcards

what was the first major action roosevelt took as president

who was the first women to serve in the cabinet

what was the goal of the New Deal

what was most directly responsible for creating new jobs and putting people to work

what was the main objective of the Agriculture Adjustment Act

What peices of New Deal legilation was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court

What role did Eleanor Roosevelt play in the Roosevelt administration

what reached a new high during Roosevelts first term as president

what was Roosevelts idead that failed to become a law

who wrote the novel grapes of wrath about the grim lives pf Oklahomans fleeing the Dust Bowl during the depression

This required corporations to provide complete, truthful info on all stock offerings

This was created to reform, and restore confidence in, the stock market by providing a means to monitor the market and to enforce laws regarding the sales of stocks and bonds

Set a national minimum hourlywage and prohibited factory labor for children under sixteen years of age

Rebuilt dams and provided hydroelectric power to an impoverished region

protcted right of workers to join unions and established the National Labor Relations Board to settle disputes between employers and employees

Provided for bank inspections by the Treasury Department and a means for making federal loans to solid banks

provided a pension for retired workers and their spouses and aided people with disabilities, poor mothers with dependent children, and the needy elderly

put hundres of thousands of young, single men to work building roads, developing parks, planting trees, and helping in soil-erosion and flood control projects

created through the Glass-Steagall Banking Act of 1933, this originally protected up to $5000 of an individual bank account

addressed the problems of unemployment and poverty by creating jobs that ranged from the construction of airports and libraries to the sewing of clothing for the needy

What was least likely to be a part of the New Deal coalition

By decreasing farm supplies, New Deal policies helped to...

This person claimed that the New Deal policies were inadequate and proposed a social program called Share-Our-Wealth

The Federal Emergency Relief Administration was most helpful to ....

The American public perceived many characteristics in the President Roosevelt, but WHAT was probably not one of them.

Who used music to express the hardships of American life during the Depression

Who helped organize the "Black Cabinet", a group of influential African Americans who advised the Roosevelt administration on racial issues

The Supreme Court ruled that the WHAT was unconstitutional on the grounds that its provisions were local matters and should be regulated by the states

Of the following New Deal policies, WHAT had the biggest long term impact on the American economy

The WHAT reflected President Roosevelts concern for the natural environment

Put millions of men to work

author of Native Son

government spending that exceeds intake

Roosevelts program to fight the depression

famous depression-era movie

measure that strengthened labor unions

brought power to an impoverished region

opponent of New Deal

this established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation with the greater goal of restoring public confidence in the banking system

this provided direct relief in the form of food and clothing to the neediest people hit by the Depression- the unemployed, the aged, and the ill

this required corporations to provide complete info on all stock offerings, with the greater goal of restoring public confidence in the stock market

his famous painting, American Gothic, depicts two stern-faced farmers standing stiffly in front of their farmhouse

provides for an oldage insurance program

federally regulated crop price was intended to stabalize farmers income

this increased during the Roosevelt administration as the federal government expected reforms to stabalize the economy

an organization of industrial labor unions started in the 1930s

the act of government paying pout more money than it is taking in

the creator of a radio broadcast that convinced many americans that Martians had landed in New Jersey