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apush chapter 23 vocab

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Smoot-Hawley Tariff
A high tariff enacted in 1930 during the Great Depression.
Bonus Army
A group of 15,000 unemployed World War I veterans who set up camps near the Capitol building in 1932 to demand immediate payment of pension awards due to be paid in 1945.
fireside chats
A series of informal radio addresses Franklin Roosevelt made to the nation in which he explained New Deal initiatives.
Hundred Days
A legendary session during the first few months of Franklin Roosevelt's administration in which Congress enacted 15 major bills that focused primarily on four problems; banking failures, agricultural overproduction, the business slump, and soaring unemployment.
Glass-Steagall Act
A 1933 law that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which insured deposits up to $2500.
Agricultural Adjustment Act
New deal legislation passed in May 1933 that aimed at cutting agricultural production to raise crop prices and thus farmers' income.
National Recovery Administration
Federal agency established in June 1933 to promote industrial recovery during the Great Depression.
Civilian Conservation Corps
Federal relief program that provided jobs to millions of unemployed young men who built thousands of bridges, roads, trails, and other structures in state and parks, bolstering the national infrastructure.
Federal Housing Administration
An agencies established by the Federal Housing Act of 1934 that refinanced home mortgages for mortgage holders facing possible foreclosure.
Securities and Exchange Commission
A commission established by Congress in 1934 to regulate the stock market.
Liberty League
A group of Republican business leaders and conservative Democrats who banded together to fight what they called the "reckless spending" and "socialist" reforms of the New Deal.
National Association of Manufacturers
An association of industrialists and business leaders opposed to government regulation.
Townsend Plan
A plan proposed by Frances Townsend in 1933 that would give $200 a month to citizens over the age of 60.
welfare state
A term applied to industrial democracies that adopt various government-guaranteed social welfare programs.
Wagner Act
A 1935 at that upheld the right of industrial workers to join unions and established the National Labor Relations Board, a federal agency with authority to protect workers from employer coercion and to guarantee collective bargaining.
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