US History Terms Chapter 21
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History Terms Chapter 21
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 "Great Depression" | Time of America characterized with hard times and great challenges |
| Public Works | Government financed construction of public facilities |
| Work Relief | Government relief jobs |
| Reconstruction Finance Corporation | Given $500 million to loan to businesses |
| Hawley Smoot Tariff | Pushed foreign trading goods and agricultural item prices to their highest level in history, One of President Hoovers worst actions as president |
| Bonus Army | War veterans that demanded a promised check from the government |
| Franklin Delano Roosevelt | Became president in 1932, served three terms and helped America tremendously through the Great Depression |
| "New Deal" | FDR's promise to get the US out of the economic crisis |
| Banking Crisis | Banking system on verge of total collapse |
| Bank Holiday | FDR demanded that for a 24 hour period, all banks be closed |
| "Brain Trust" | Composed mostly of professors from Columbia, FDR's advisors |
| "Fireside Chats" | Useful means of inspiring confidence and keeping public approval for the New Deal |
| CCC Civilian Conservation Corps | Young, unmarried men to work in reforestation and soil conservation projects under the supervision of the army |
| PWA Public Works Administration | Built school buildings, courthouses, hospitals, bridges, and other public facilities |
| WPA Works Progress Administration | Eliminate the despised relief doles |
| AAA Agricultural Adjustment Act | Established a new method of subsidizing farm products and aided debt ridden farmers |
| NIRA National Industrial Recovery Act | Organized voluntary guidelines for industries to increase employment, maintain wages, and reduce unwanted competition |
| NRA National Recovery Administration | Agency designed to carry out the activities prescribed by the NIRA |
| FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation | Agency devised to insure the bank deposits of millions of Americans against loss. |
| TVA Tennessee Valley Authority | Undertook an extensive project to build up dams along the Tennessee River to provide new means of energy |
| Social Security Act | Instituting old age pensions and unemployment insurance for American workers. |
| Huey Long | Louisiana senator, tax the rich to feed the poor |
| Francis Townshend | Proposed government pay a pension of $200 every month to each citizen over the age of 60 |
| Charles Coughlin | Roman Catholic priest, turned weekly sermons on radio to national political broadcast |
| Alf Landon | Only republican candidate to offer in the 1936 election. Lost to FDR |
| Court Packing Plan | FDR's plan to put as many liberal New Dealers in the court as possible |
| John L Lewis | President of the United Mine Workers, organized the CIO |
| "Bread Lines" | Cash relief for those who applied and were approved |
| Dust Bowl | 4 year drought, farmers suffered greatly. Many headed for Cali |
| CIO | Made headlines when rubber industry workers staged a simultaneous sit down strike |
| New York World's Affair | Attracted 45 million visitors to 1500 exhibits |
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