Chapter 12 Flashcards
Polio
A dreaded and paralyzing disease. There’s no cure for it. It eats away your ability to use your muscles.
New deal
Roosevelt’s policies for ending the depression
Apparent
Clearly visible or understood. Obvious
Gold standard
A monetary standard under which the basic unit of currency is equal in value to and exchangeable for a specified amount of gold.
Bank holidays
A day on which banks are legally closed
Ideology
A system of ideas and ideals, esp. one that forms the basis of economic or political policy
Hundred days
The Hundred Days, sometimes known as the Hundred Days of Napoleon or Napoleon’s Hundred Days
Fireside chats
Direct talks where Roosevelt let the American people know what he was trying to accomplish.
Fundamental
forming a necessary base or core
Civilian conservation corps
a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1943 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families, ages from18 to 25
Deficit spending
Government spending in excess of revenue. funds raised by borrowing rather than from taxation.
American liberty league
American political organization formed in 1934 by conservative democrats to oppose the new deal of Roosevelt.
Benefits
An advantage or profit made from something
Works progress administration
the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency which employed millions of unemployed people
Financed
Management of large amounts of money
Thereby
Means as a result of
National labor relations board
an independent agency of the United States government charged with mediating disputes between management and labor unions
Binding arbitration
The process by which the parties to a dispute submit their differences to the judgment of an impartial person or group appointed by mutual consent or statutory provision.
Sit down strike
a strike where workers refuse to leave their place of employment until a settlement is reached
Congress of industrial organizations
a federation of industrial unions formed in 1935. It united with the AFL in 1955 to form the AFL-CIO
Social security act
In the United States, Social Security refers to the federal Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program.[1] The original Social Security Act[2] (1935) and the current version of the Act, as amended[3] encompass several social welfare and social insurance programs. The larger and better known programs are:
Federal Old-Age (Retirement), Survivors, and Disability Insurance
Unemployment benefits
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Health Insurance for Aged and Disabled (Medicare)
Grants to States for Medical Assistance Programs (Medicaid)
State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)
Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
France’s Perkins
the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945
Court packing
a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court. Roosevelt’s purpose was to obtain favorable rulings regarding New Deal legislation that had been previously ruled unconstitutional.
Henry morgenthau
American banker, diplomat, and philanthropist. He emigrated to the United States as a boy. Later, he practiced law in New York City and built up a large fortune in real estate speculation and banking
