Chapter 23 American History (Just)
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13 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Franklin Delano Roosevelt | know popularly as FDR, the two term governor of New York and a distant cousin of former president Theodore Roosevelt |
| New Deal | a phrase taken from a campaign speech in which Roosevelt had promised "a new deal for the american people" |
| Glass-Steagall Act | the 1933 law established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to protect individual's bank accounts |
| Federal Securities Act | required corporations to provide complete information on all stock offerings and made them liable for any misrepresentations |
| deficit spending | spending more money than the government receives in revenue |
| Frances Perkins | America's first femal cabinet member |
| Mary McLeod Bethune | an education who dedicated herself to promoting opportunities to young African Americans |
| John Collier | commissioner of Indian affairs |
| New Deal coalition | an alignmen of diverse groups dedicated to supporting the Democratic Party |
| Orson Welles | an actor, director, producer, and writer, created one of the most reowned radio broadcasts of all time, "The War of the Worlds" |
| Grant Wood | famous painter of American Gothic |
| Richard Wright | and African-American author who wrote the novel Native Son about a young man trying to survive in a racist world |
| The Grapes of Wrath | a novel by Josh Steinbeck, that deals with a family of Oklahomans who leave the Dust Bowl for California |
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