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| Emergency Banking Relief Act 1933 | Invested President with power to regulate banking transactions and foreign exchange and to reopen solvent banks |
| Glass-Seagall Banking Reform Act | Provided for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation which insured individual deposits up to $5000, thus ended the disgraceful epidemic of bank failures |
| "Managed Currency" | inflation. would relieve debtors' burdens and stimulate new production |
| Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) | provided employment for about 3 illion uniformed young men (who might otherwise be driven to a life of crime). Work: reforestation, firefighting, flood control, swamp drainage |
| QPURIIOEW;ASLDKFJOPUR Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) | Headed by Harry L. Hopkins. |
| Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) 1933 | gave farmers money to meet their mortgages. establish "parity prices" through "artificial scarcity" for basic commodities. "Parity" price set for product that gave it the same real values. Eliminate price-depressing surpluses by paying grossers to reduce their crop acerage. raised farm income. increased unemployment. Killed 1936 |
| Home Owner's Loan Corporation (HOLC) | designed to refinance mortgages on nonfarm homes. bailed out mortgage-holding banks. bolted political loyalties of relieved middle-class homeowner's sercurely to the Democratic party. |
| Civil Works Administration (CWA) | Branch of FERA, under direction of Hopkins. Designed to provide temporary jobs. "boondogging" tasks |
| Father Charles Coughlin | Microphone Messiah. Catholic priest in Michigan 1930. Slogan "Social Justice". Anti-New Deal. Became so anti-semitic, pascistic, and demagogic that he was silenced in 1942 by his ecclesiastical superiors |
| Senator Huey P. (Kingfish) Long of Louisiana | "Share our wealth" program. Promised to make "every man a king" (every family receive $5000). Shot by an assassin 1935 scared Long would become a dictator |
| Dr. Francis E. Townsend of California | Sixty plus year olds were to receive $200 a month |
| Works Progress Administration (WPA) 1935 | employment on useful projects. Launched by Hopkins. Spent about $11 billion on buildings and bridges. nearly 9 million people were given jobs. found part time occupations for high school and college students and actors and musicians and writers |
| Frances Perkins | Secretary of Labor. US 1st women cabinet member |
| Mary McLeod Bethune | director of Office Ministry Affairs in the National Youth Administration. highest ranking African-American in Roosevelt administration |
| Ruth Benedict | developed "culture and personality movement". Patterns of Culture (1934) book established study of cultures. |
| Margaret Mead | helped popularize cultural anthropolgy. wrote 34 books |
| Pearl S. Buck | Novelist. Chinese Peasant Society. The Good Earth (1931) earned her a Nobel Prize for literature 1938 |
| National Recovery Administration (NRA) | designed to assist industrial labor and unemployed. individual industries work out codes of "fair competition" under which hours of labor reduced. Max hours of labor. Min hours. Workers were guaranteed the right to organize. |
| Schechter | cut down NRA |
| Public Works Administration (PWA) | Industrial Recovery and unemployment relief. Harold L. Ickes former Bull Moose led this. Long-range recovery. $4 billion spent on 34,000 projects. Grand Coulee Dam on Columbia River - longest manmade structure since Great wall of china. |
| Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936 | withdrawal of acerage from production was now achieved by paying farmers to let their land lie fallow. |
| Second Agricultural Adjustment Act 1938 | if growers observed acerage restrictions on specified commodities they would be eligible for parity payments. give farmers a fairer price and substantial share of national income |
| Dust Bowl | 1933 drought trans-Mississippi Great Plains. eastern Colorado to Western Missouri |
| Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act 1934 | made possible a suspension of mortgage foreclosures for 5 years. (changed to 3 years) |
| Resettlement Administration 1935 | removing near-farmless farmers to better land. |
| Indian Reorganization Act 1934 | encouraged tribes to establish self-government and preserve native crafts and traditions. helped stop the loss of Indian lands and revived tribes' interest in their identity and culture. John Collier, Commissioner of Indian affairs |
| Truth in Securities Act | required promoters to transmit to the investor sworn info regarding soundess of stocks and bonds |
| Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) 1934 | watchdog administrative agency. stock markets operate like trading marts - less like gambling casinos. |
| Holding Company Act of 1935 | axed the SEC |
| Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) 1933 | result of steadfast vision and unflagging zeal of Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska. most revolutionary of all the new deal schemes. makes electricity affordable. brought area full employment and cheap electric power leading town out of poverty |
| Federal Housing Administration (FHA) 1934 | building industry stimulated by small loans to householders, improving their dwellings and completing new ones |
| US Housing Authority (USHA) 1937 | agency designed to lend money to states or communities for low-cost construction |
| Social Security Act 1935 | Federal- state unemployment insurance. provide security for old age |
| Wagner, National Labor Relations Act 1935 | Created national labor relations board for administrative purposees and reasserted the right of labor to engage in self organization and bargain collectively through representatives of its own choice. John L. Lewis leader of United Maine Workers |
| Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) | John L. Lewis headed this. sit down strike. refused to leave the factory building of GM in Flint, Michigan and prevented the importation of strike breakers |
| Fair Labor Standards Act 1938 | Wages and hours bill |
| Reorganization Act | gave FDR limited powers for administrative reforms |
| Hatch Act 1939 | barred federal administrative officials from active political campaigning and soliciting. forbade use of government funds for political purposes as well as the collection of campaign contributions and expenditures |
