History Chapter 23 – Flashcards
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This established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), with the greater goal of restoring public confidence in the banking system.
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Glass-Steagall Banking Act
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This helped to create prosperity in a poverty-stricken region by providing funds to build and repair dams, flood-control projects, and Power Plants.
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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
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This paid farmers to lower production and, in some cases, to destroy crops, with the greater goal of raising crop prices and farm income.
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Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
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This put almost 3 million young men to work building roads, developing parks, and helping in soil-erosion and flood-control projects.
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
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This required corporations to provide complete information on all stock offerings, with the greater goal of restoring public confidence in the stock market.
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Federal Securities Act (FSA)
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This authorized the Treasury Department to inspect banks and to close those that were unsound, with the greater goal of restoring public confidence in the Banking system.
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Emergency Banking Relief Act (EBRA)
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What was significant about the presidential election of 1936?
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It was the first time that most African Americans had voted Democratic rather than Republican. Also, Labor Unions gave united support to a presidential candidate.
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How did the Second New Deal attempt to help farmers?
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The FSA was created in 1937, it loaned more than $1 billion to help tenant farmers become landholders and established camps for migrant farm workers. (Who traditionally lived in squalid housing)
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What types of work did participants in the Works Progress Administration (WPA) undertake?
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Men would build airports and construct/repair roads. Women would work in sewing groups, making garments for the needy.
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What did the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) accomplish?
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Set minimum hours at 44 hours per week, decreasing to 40 hours two years later. Set minimum wages at $0.25, $0.40 by 1945.
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What groups did the Social Security Act (SSA) seek to help?
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Older, retired people (ages 65 or older), unemployed people, and families with dependent children and the disabled.
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How did the Wagner Act aid organized labor?
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It prohibited unfair labor practices such as threatening workers, firing union members, and interfering with union organizing.
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The country's first all-black trade union was organized by _____________.
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A. Philip Randolph
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Roosevelt do not do more to promote civil rights out of fear of upsetting _________.
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Southern Democrats
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Between 1933 and 1941, union membership in the United States grew from less than 3 million to about __________.
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10 Million
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One of the main bargaining tactics of the labor movement in the 1930s was the ____________.
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Sit-down strike
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The Memorial Day Massacre involved violent clashes between police and workers in the ________________.
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Steel Industry
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Frances Perkins became the first female ___________.
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Cabinet member
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Folksinger who captured daily hardships.
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Woodie Guthrie
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Famous Depression-era film
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Gone With The Wind
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Author of Native Son
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Richard Wright
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Depicted difficulties of Dust Bowl farmers.
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Grapes of Wrath
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Created "The War of the Worlds" radio show
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Orson Welles
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Creator of famous painting American Gothic
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Grant Wood
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How did the Federal Art Project help Depression-era artists?
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It paid them a living wage to produce public art.
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Why did so many people regularly attend movies during the 1930s?
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Movies provided a wide range of entertainment, and helped people cope with the reality of the Great Depression.
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How did the art and literature of the Depression differ from the movie and radio productions of the time?
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They were more sober and serious. Artistic work conveyed a more uplifting message about the strength of character and the Democratic values of the American people.
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This provides for an old-age insurance program.
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Social Security Act (SSA)-
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This federally regulated crop price was intended to stabilize farmers' incomes.
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Parity
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This provides for an unemployment compensation program.
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Social Security Act (SSA)
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This provides programs that aid needy families with children and the needy disabled.
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Social Security Act (SSA)
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Under the 2nd Agricultural Act, loans made to farmers were based on this value of their surplus crops.
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Parity
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Created in 1934, this continues to monitor the stock market and enforce laws regarding the sale of stocks and bonds.
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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
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Pollution was an unfortunate result of this program to promote flood control and build hydroelectric power plants.
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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
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Created through the Glass-Steagall Banking Act, this shored up the banking system by protecting people's savings against loss in the event of a bank failure.
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
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The Glass-Steagall Banking Act established the ______.
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
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The novel that depicts the arduous journey of Oklahoma Farmers fleeing the Dust Bowl is _____________.
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Put millions of young men to work.
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
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Government spending that exceeds intake.p
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Deficit Spending
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Roosevelt's program to fight the Depression.
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New Deal
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Measure that strengthened labor unions.
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Wagner Act
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Brought power to an impoverished region.
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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
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Opponent of the New Deal
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Huey Long
