Chapter 33

Question 1

Blank-check:

Answer 1

referring to permission to use an unlimited amount of money or authority

Question 2

Boondoggle:

Answer 2

to engage in trivial or useless work; any enterprise characterized by such work

Question 3

Fascism:

Answer 3

a political system or philosophy that advocates a mass-based party dictatorship, extreme nationalism, racism, and the glorification of war

Question 4

Collective bargaining:

Answer 4

bargaining between an employer and his or her organized work force over hours, wages, and other conditions of employment

Question 5

Court-packing plan:

Answer 5

Franklin Roosevelt’s politically motivated and I’ll-fated scheme to add a new justice to the Supreme Court for every member over 70 who would not retire

Question 6

Keynesianism:

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Deficit spending:

Answer 7

the spending of public funds beyond the amount of income

Question 8

Huey P. Long:

Answer 8

senator of Louisiana who was said to have more brass than a stubborn mule, used his abundant rabble rousing talents to publicize his “share our wealth” program which promised to make every man a king

Question 9

Father Charles Coughlin:

Answer 9

a catholic priest in Michigan who began broadcasting with the slogan “social justice” , frightened many people because raised troubling question about link between fascism and economic crisis

Question 10

Eleanor Roosevelt:

Answer 10

most active First Lady in history, joined the Women’s Trade Union
League and league of women voters

Question 11

Rubber-stamp:

Answer 11

to approve a plan or law quickly or routinely, without examination