Chapter 32 APUSH – Flashcards

1)Specialists in law, economics, and welfare, many of them young university professors 2)Advised President Franklin D. Roosevelt and helped develop the policies of the New Deal 3)They were more influential than the Cabinet

1)The economic and political policies of Franklin Roosevelt's administration in the 1930s 2)Aimed to solve the problems of the Great Depression by providing relief for the unemployed and launching efforts to stimulate economic recovery 3)The New Deal built on reforms of the progressive era to expand greatly an American-style welfare state example: TVA

1)The first hundred days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, stretching from March 9 to June 16, 1933 2)When an unprecedented number of reform bills were passed by a Democratic Congress to launch the New Deal Example: a national bank holiday

1)A law creating the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 2)Insured individual bank deposits and ended a century-long tradition of unstable banking that had reached a crisis in the Great Depression.

1)A government program created by Congress to help with the problem of unemployment 2)Hired young, unemployed men to improve the rural, out-of-doors environment with such work as planting trees, fighting fires, draining swamps, and maintaining National Parks 3)The CCC proved to be an important foundation for the post-World War II environmental movement

1)Known by its critics as the "National Run Around," it was an early New Deal program 2) It was designed to assist industry, labor, and the unemployed 3)Centralized planning mechanisms monitored workers' earnings and working hours to distribute work, i also established codes for "fair competition" to ensure that similar procedures were followed by all firms in any particular industrial sector

1)A New Deal program designed to raise agricultural prices by paying farmers not to farm 2)It was based on the assumption that higher prices would increase farmers' purchasing power and thereby help alleviate the Great Depression

1)Grim nickname for the Great Plains region devastated by drought and dust storms during the 1930s 2)The disaster led to the migration into California of thousands of displaced "Okies" and "Arkies"

1)One of the most revolutionary of the New Deal public works projects, the TVA brought: 1) cheap electric power 2) full employment 3) low-cost housing 4) and environmental improvements to Americans in the Tennessee Valley

1)A flagship accomplishment of the New Deal 2)Provided for unemployment and old-age insurance financed by a payroll tax on employers and employees 3)It has long remained a pillar of the "New Deal Order" 4)Gave some people reason to call FDR a socialist

1)Also known as the National Labor Relations Act, this law protected the right of labor to: 1) organize in unions 2) bargain collectively with employers 3) and established the National Labor Relations Board to monitor unfair labor practices on the part of employer. 4)Its passage marked the culmination of decades of labor protest.

1)Important New Deal labor legislation that regulated minimum wages and maximum hours for workers involved in interstate commerce 2)Also outlawed labor by children under sixteen 3)The exclusion of agricultural, service, and domestic workers meant that many blacks, Mexican Americans, and women who were concentrated in these sectors—did not benefit from the act's protection.

1)A New Deal-era labor organization that broke away from the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in order to organize unskilled industrial workers regardless of their particular economic sector or craft 2)Gave a great boost to labor organizing in the midst of the Great Depression and during World War II 3)In 1955, the CIO merged with the AFL.

1)Franklin Roosevelt's politically motivated and ill-fated scheme to add a new justice to the Supreme Court for every member over seventy who would not retire 2)His objective was to overcome the Court's objections to New Deal reforms 3)Backfired because the supreme court is kinda sacred and a lot of people disliked him for it

1)An economic theory based on the thoughts of British economist John Maynard Keynes, holding that central banks should: 1) adjust interest rates 2) and governments should use deficit spending and tax policies to increase purchasing power and hence prosperity

1)The 32nd president of the United States, he was the only American president to be elected to four terms of office 2)Credited with having developed a program, called the New Deal, that brought the nation out of crisis

1)The wife of FDR, she was the most active First Lady the United States had ever seen 2)Was known for her devotion to the impoverished and oppressed

1)Louisiana governor, later senator, whose anti-New Deal "Share Our Wealth" program promised to make "Every Man a King" that is, until he was shot in 1935 2)Brought upon fear of dictatorship