Chapter 33 Flashcards
He contracted poliomyelitis an lost partial use of his legs. He led congress through the “Hundred Days.” He focused on economic and agricultural recovery and support for the unemployment and elderly. Failed at enlarging the Supreme Court and putting place justices that would support his legislation.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
She was the wife of FDR. A strong supporter of civil rights, women’s rights, and world peace. She resigned from daughters of the American Revolution after they refused to allow Marian Anderson, an African American, to sing at Independence Hall. Delegate to the United Nations.
Eleanor Roosevelt
He was in charge of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration(FERA) and the Civil Works Administration (CWA). He was a New York social worker and a friend of FDR.
Harry Hopkins
She along Eleanor Roosevelt, were one of the few women involved politically. She became the America’s first woman cabinet member.
Frances Perkins
A priest that began broadcasting in 1930 and whose slogan was “Social Justice.” Many of his listeners became anti-Semitic
Father Coughlin
He publicized that every family was to receive $5,000 at the expense of the prosperous in his “Share Our Wealth” program. Fear of him becoming a fascist dictator he was assassinated in 1935
Huey Long
She became the director of the Office of Minority Affairs in the National Youth Administration, served as the highest-ranking African American in the Roosevelt administration
Mary McLeod Bethune
He was the secretary of the interior of the Public Works Administration. The primary purpose was a long-range recovery that spent $4 billion dollars on public projects including the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River.
Harold Ickes
He created the Tennessee Valley Authority. Though faced with opposition, it brought the area not only full employment, but low-cost housing, abundant cheap nitrates, and etc. page 788
George W. Norris
Led the National Labor Relations Board, it was a host of unskilled workers that began to organize themselves into effective unions. He also fined the Committee for Industrial Organization.
John L. Lewis
He was the Republican that ran against FDR in the 1936 campaign. He accepted some New Deal reforms except the Social Security Act. He was supported by Hoover. He was however demolished in the campaign with only having 3 states in his favor.
Alfred M. Landon
Several work relief programs under the control of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). It is a politically motivated, trivial, wasteful or impractical government project funded with the intent to gain political favor.
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