| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Cause of Great Depression | 2% of country owning 28% of nation's wealth |
| Cause of Great Depression | high tariffs |
| Agricultural Marketing Act | farmers establish a fair marketing price |
| RFC | loans to banks and insurance companies but not directly into businesses |
| Bonus Army | veterans seeking to collect their war bonuses early due to the Great Depression |
| Herbert Hoover | didn't feel fed gov't should be responsible for aiding those in the depression |
| 20th Ammendment | known as the "lame duck" ammendment which made inauguration changes |
| Brain Trust | group of intellectuals FDR surrounded himself with |
| Relief and Recovery | what the first new deal was geared towards |
| Harold Ickes | secretary of interior and headed the PWA |
| Harry Hopkins | social worker/progressive advisor of FDR and headed FERA/CWA |
| Francis Perkins | secretary of labor |
| Bank Holiday | FDR declares this after his first 4 days in office |
| Glass-Steigal Act | sets up FDIC |
| FERA | only organization to provide citizens with "direct handouts" and was short lived |
| CWA | gave jobs for those to build schools, railroads, and airports |
| Alphabet Soup | what FDR's critics referred to the New Deal as |
| AAA | basically pays farmers not to farm and was declared unconstitutional by means of the gov't regulating the state |
| NIRA | its aim was to limit production of industrial goods and is eventually ruled unconstitutional |
| NRA | sets up fair practice codes to control production and establishes min. wage and the max work week |
| General Hugh Johnson | headed NRA militarily, issuing Blue Eagle stickers |
| Section 7a | this section of NIRA stated that labor unions could exist and was the first time the gov't supported labor unions |
| NLRB | dealt with labor relations to prevent strike |
| General Douglass MacArthur | leads an army into bonus city along with Eisenhower to discourage the marchers |
| CCC | considered most successful New Deal program designed for young men aged 18-25 |
| TVA | spans over 7 states providing them with dams and electricity |
| Liberty League | wealthy businessmen who felt FDR was "a traitor of his class" |
| Upton Sinclair | a socialist who believed in a big gov't and wrote "The Jungle" |
| Dr. Francis Townsend | proposed a pension plan including $200 a month to anyone over 60 years of age |
| Father Charles Coughlin | a radio host who originally was a follower of FDR but later disliked him and became anti-semitic |
| Huey Long | desired a "share the wealth" program and was governor of Lousianna, nicknamed "the fish" |
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