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- 2. As the US Secretary of Commerce, he was given the job of the Director of the Federal Emergency Relief administration by FDR.
- 5. This act restricted agricultural production in the New Deal era by paying farmers subsidies not to plant part of their land and to kill off excess livestock. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus so as to effectively raise the value of crops.
- 8. Caused by severe drought and failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion, this was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American prairie states during the 1930s.
- 9. Also called the National Labor Relations Act, this act guaranteed workers the right to unionize and created a National Labor Relations board to hear disputes over unfair labor practices.
- 11. One of the New Deal’s most comprehensive measures, this 1933 act appropriated $500 million to support state and local treasuries that had run dry.
- 13. This act, which required banks to take a holiday, was passed in 1933 as an attempt to stabilize the banking system.
- 14. A term used to describe a series of 28 evening radio addresses given by US president FDR between 1933 and 1944.
- 15. Part of the New Deal of 1933, this large-scale public works construction agency, which was headed by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, built large-scale public works such as dams, bridges, hospitals, and schools.
- 16. As the largest New Deal Agency, it was forbidden from discriminating against Black Americans and employed millions of people to carry out public works projects, including the construction of 125k public buildings, 651k miles of public roads, 8k parks, and the funding of hot lunches for children, daycare for working mothers, and federal support for the arts.
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- 1. Act This 1933 act forbade commercial banks from engaging in excessive speculation, added $1 billion in gold to the economy, and established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
- 3. Court case that struck down the Agricultural Adjustment Act
- 4. This prime New Deal agency established by FDR had the goal of eliminating “cut-throat competition” by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of “fair practice” and set prices.
- 6. A series of federal programs, public work projects, and financial reforms and regulations, enacted in the US during the 1930s in response to the Great Depression.
- 7. This program built a series of dams in the Tennessee River Valley to control floods, prevent deforestation, and provide cheap electric power to people in rural counties in seven southern states.
- 10. Declared the National Recovery Administration unconstitutional on the basis that the NRA gave the executive branch regulatory powers that belonged exclusively to Congress
- 12. A program for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families that provided unskilled manual labor jobs related to the conservation and development of natural resources (such as forests and national parks) in rural lands owned by federal, state, and local governments.