Social Studies Chapter 26 Section 3 – Flashcards

A 1935 law, also known as the Wagner Act, that guarantees workers the right of collective bargaining sets down rules to protect unions and organizers, and created the National Labor Relations Board to regulate labor-managment relations.

Union organization of unskilled workers; broke away from the American Federation of Labor in 1935 and rejoined it in 1955

guaranteed retirement payments for enrolled workers beginning at age 65; set up federal-state system of unemployment insurance and care for dependent mothers and children, the handicapped, and public health, A 1935 law passed during the Great Depression that was intended to provide a minimal level of sustenance to older Americans and thus save them from poverty.

sum of money paid to people on a regular basis after they retire

Process by which a union representing a group of workers negotiates with management for a contract

Work stoppage in which workers shut down all machines and refuse to leave a factory until their demands are met.

When a government spends more than it takes in and goes into debt., spending money raised by borrowing

the amount of money a national government owes to other governments or its people, the debt of the national government (as distinguished from the debts of individuals and businesses and political subdivisions)

-Rich/wealthy : they were taxed to help the economy. Farmers: The AAA regulated too much. Women & any minorities: b/c programs werent for them.

President Franklin Roosevelt's plan to increase the justices on the Supreme court to 15 in order to overcome conservative majority serving at the time. Fact: Congress refused to pass his plan

social security-guaranteed retirement payments for enrolled workers beginning at age 65; set up federal-state system of unemployment insurance and care for dependent mothers and children, the handicapped, and public health, A 1935 law passed during the Great Depression that was intended to provide a minimal level of sustenance to older Americans and thus save them from poverty. National Labor Relations Act-A 1935 law, also known as the Wagner Act, that guarantees workers the right of collective bargaining sets down rules to protect unions and organizers, and created the National Labor Relations Board to regulate labor-managment relations.

President Franklin Roosevelt's precursor of the modern welfare state (1933-1939); programs to combat economic depression enacted a number of social insureance measures and used government spending to stimulate the economy; increased power of the state and the state's intervention in U.S. social and economic life.