American History Study Guide – Flashcards

Relief, Recovery, and Reform

the period of the first three months of office where FDR created programs to provide relief, create jobs, and stimulate the economy

helped provide relief, create jobs, stimulate the economy

rescue an entire area, provided flood control, electricity, hold the needed water

insured loans for the construction of new houses

established by WPA to reduce competition for jobs by supporting education and training of youth

included more social welfare benefits, stricter control over businesses, higher taxes on rich, stronger support for unions, WPA, Resettlement Administration, Wagner Act, Social Security Act

guaranteed all workers the right to join a union and engage in collective bargaining, fired anyone for joining a union was made illegal

reform for the elderly, disabled, and the unemployed
insurance benefits for the nor earners because of age handicap or job loss

This business group organized to sway popular opinion against the New Deal

someone who can manipulate public opinions

the debt of the national government (as distinguished from the debts of individuals and businesses and political subdivisions)

An alliance of diverse groups – including Southern whites, African Americans, and unionized workers – who supported the policies of the Democratic Party in the 1930s and 1940s

FDR spoke to the nation over the radio, people felt better by listening to him every night

provided government insurance for bank deposits to prevent loss of depositor’s money

gave federal money to states for aid to people in need, gave money to public work programs

recovery of agriculture, paid farmers to destroy crops and livestock as a mean of limiting production

put unemployed workers on the federal government payroll and organized special projects to work on

relief for the unemployed, provided young people with jobs in flood control and conservation projects

reform the stock market, regulated the stock market and required stockbrokers to be truthful with the public

created jobs to build roads, parks, and airports

Franklin Delano Roosevelt; president during the Great Depression, created the New Deal to help revive the economy

Dow Jones Industrial Average

major source of entertainment and news

escape for people, affordable, double features, drive ins

informal group of intellectuals who helped devise policies for New Deal

wanted to change to fifteen justices, enabled him to appoint more justices who shared the point of view, denounced the president for attempting to pack the court

First known as the Federal Council of Negro Affairs, an informal group of African-American public policy advisors to United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It was supported by the first lady Eleanor Roosevelt

packages sent to your home in 1896 in rural areas for free

bridges, dams, tunnels, hospitals, and public buildings, beccame acceptable for the government to assume responsibility for the needy and to intervene in the economy