Chapter 32

Question 1

fdr

Answer 1

assest in wife eleanor
commandinf presence and a good pseaker
sponoserd spending to releieve spending as ny governor
platform promised a balanced nudget and social and economic reforms

Question 2

eleanor roosevelt

Answer 2

worked in a settlement house
joined women’s trade union league and the league of women voters
brought women activists to gob
influnced gov by adovocating fot the poor and oppressed

Question 3

election of 1932

Answer 3

fdr’s brain trust and new deal
hoover not very enthusiatic
h trie to insist that the uncertantitiy and fear produced by frd’s victory would worsen the depression
win for FDR
1st election where blacks switched to dem party and have not sitched back
vitroy was as much pro fdr as it was antihoover

Question 4

the new deal

Answer 4

3 rs: relief, reform, recovery
goals: permament recoery and reform of the abuses that created the boom or bust catstrophe
reforms based on progressivism

Question 5

fdr begins the new deal

Answer 5

hundred days
congress aproved bills and gave pres blank check powers

Question 6

fdr manages the cash money money cash

Answer 6

emergency banking relief act
safe to use banks again
glass-steagall baking reform act
ordered all private holdings of gold be surrenred to gov in exchange for paper money
took nation off gold standard
managed currecny
inflation
increased money in circulation

Question 7

creating those jobs

Answer 7

civilian consrevation corps
federal emergency relief admino
agricultural adjustment act
home owners; loan corp refinanced mortagees on non farm homes
civil works administration

Question 8

emergency banking relief act

Answer 8

president has the power to regulate banking transactions and foreign exchange
reopen banks

Question 9

civil works administration

Answer 9

provided teporary jobs during the curel winter emergency
elimintaed ollutants in navigable waters

Question 10

civilian conservation corps

Answer 10

emplued 3 mil men on conservation projects
provided jobs
provided food and housing so some of wages could be sent home to families

Question 11

agiants the new deal

Answer 11

demagogues
father charles coughlin
dr francis e townsend promised everyone over 60 $200 a month
senator huey p long publicized “share our wea;th” program which would give each fam 500 smackaroons
raised questions abt the link b/w facism and economic crisrs

Question 12

works progress administration

Answer 12

created employment through public works
beautifivation
encirchment porgrams
federal arts project hired artists to create posters and mirals

Question 13

women

Answer 13

1st femal cabinet member secrarty of labor francis perkins
mary bethune served as the highest ranking africa a in fdr gov
conrtibutions to social science
antrhoplogy
ideas abt sexuality, gender isea and relationships

Question 14

helping industry and labor

Answer 14

national recovery administaration
public works administration
repeal of prohibition amendment
taxes
jons

Question 15

national revoery administration

Answer 15

indistries were to create codes of fair competition
hrs of labor would be reduced to allow for more jobs
minimum wages
right to collective bargaining
baned yellpw-dog controact
resctricited use of child labor
blue eagle symbol
USSC killed the NRA q. the decission tha tcongress couldnt give legislative powers to exacutive and congress couldnt contorl local businesd

Question 16

public works administration

Answer 16

4 bil spent on public works projets
headed by harold ickes
great ciulce dam made irrigation of famrs possivle

Question 17

paying farmers not to farm

Answer 17

agricultiral adjustment administration
soil conservation and doestic allotment act payed farmers to plant soil conserving crops
second AAA payed farmers for acerage restictions of specificied commodities

Question 18

agricultural adjustment administration

Answer 18

established parity prices for basic commodities
eliminated surpluses by paying farmers to reduce theur crop acerage
money needed for pauments raised by tazes
increased unemployment
USSc killed it by declaring its regularory tax provisions unconst

Question 19

dust bowl

Answer 19

drought and overfarming caused loose soil
1000s fled
oakies and arkies to s cali
“the grapes of wrath”e

Question 20

effects of the dust bowl

Answer 20

frazier’-lenke farm bankrupcy act supsened mortage for 5 yts
resetlement admini removed nearfarmless fams to better land
indian reorganization act which encoraged trives to establish local self-gov and preserve their traditions

Question 21

fighting bankers and business

Answer 21

truth in securties act require d promoters to tell investors info regarding the soundness of their socks
secutrities and exchange commission
public utility holding company act

Question 22

securties and exchange commisison

Answer 22

pprotect invesotrs, maintain fair ordely and effiecient markets, and facilitate capital formation
indicatees the purpose of research use
regulate sorck markets

Question 23

electricity

Answer 23

industry growing
escess rates
by deveolping a hydroelectric potential of the temmeessee river. gov could make jobs and reform the power monopoly
tennessee valalley athority

Question 24

tennesse valley authority

Answer 24

discovered how much the production of ekecticty cost so rates would be fair
utility corps lash back
employment
cheap power, cheap housing, nitrates, restoration of soilt, o,proved nacitagtion, reforstiation, flood control
less pverty
dams

Question 25

housing reform

Answer 25

federal housing administration
building indsutsry stimulated by loans to hosueholders to imprve their homes and compete new ones
US housing authority lended money to states or commmunities for low cost construction
bacjlash from estate promoteds
slum areas shrank

Question 26

social securit act

Answer 26

provided for fed-state unemployment insurance
specified categories of retired workers recieved gov payments
provisions for the disabled

Question 27

national labor regylations act/wagner act

Answer 27

created a new national labor relations board for admini purposes and ressrted the the right of labor to self organize and bargian collectivelty
national laobor relations board
unskilled workers began to organize themselves inro effective unsions

Question 28

unions

Answer 28

committie for industrial organization w. in af of l
broke off w. af of l
cio moved to automobile industry
sit down strikes
cio won when its union was reorganized by general motors
us steel comapny gave workes right of unionization
cio changed to congress of industrial organizations

Question 29

fair labor standards act

Answer 29

made a min wage for interstate commerace along w. max workign hrs
labor by children under 16 forbidden
opposition from industrialists
exculsion of agricultiral, service, and domestic workers meant that blacks, mexs, and women didnt benefit

Question 30

election of 1936

Answer 30

dems renominated fdr on platform of new deal
repubs nominated alfred landon
platform: condemned new deal bc of its radicalism, expermentaiton and confusion
fdr
dem majority back to congress
fdr won bc he appealed to the forgotton man
forged an enduring coalition of s, blacks, and ppor

Question 31

fdr wants a new court

Answer 31

fdr saw ussc judges getting in the way of reform
court was conservative
fdr thoguht that all of the dem victories showed that the pwople wanted the new deal
fdr asked congress to add a new justice for every one over70 that wouldnt reture (up to 6)
political blunder

Question 32

the court changes course

Answer 32

vetoed court packign plan
conservative judges started voting on the side of liverals
uphelad the priciple of a state min wage for women, reversing its stance
uplead the NLRA and SSA
congress vote dfull pay for justcies over 70 who retired and passed a reform bill for the courts
USSC became friendler to new deal

Question 33

end of the new deal

Answer 33

less unemployment
run in deficits
depression in gd
keyianism
reorganization act gav fdr limited powers for gov reforms
hatch act barred most fed admini officials from active poltical campaigning and solciting

Question 34

complaints abt the new deal

Answer 34

waste, incompetence, confusion, contridictions, corss purposes, and graft
leftists and commies
growth of goc
impulsiveness of fdr
large national debt
failed promise of balancing hte budget
undermined vitues of thrift and initiatve
blamed gov for depression not being over sooner
states rights ignored

Question 35

appluase of new deal

Answer 35

relief, not eh economy had been the goal
relieved worst of gd
colllapse of economic system was averted
fairer distrubtion of nations wealth
saved nation from free enterprise
not socialisic

Question 36

banking collapse

Answer 36

banks invested heabily in the stock marker
stock market collapse - baming collapse
life savings gone
houses collapsed

Question 37

banking holiday

Answer 37

shut doen banks for 5 days to evaluate them
stem bank failures
restore confidence in banks

Question 38

federal deposit insurance corporation

Answer 38

insured bank deposits
examined and supercised financial institutions

Question 39

federal emergency relief actf

Answer 39

granted 3 bil to state for direct dole payments or wages on work projects
immediate relief for the unemployed

Question 40

reciprocal trade agreement

Answer 40

allows congress to set the terms of trade negotiations, have cingressional consulataions during negotioatons, and moderate the tariff code