AP US History Vocab 10

1929 act championed by President Hoover that authorized the lending of federal money to famers cooperatives to buy crops

coalition of nations opposed Germany, Italy, and Japan in WW2

formed in 1934 by Anti-New Deal politicians and business leaders to oppose the policies of FDR

on Tuesday, OCtober 29, 1929, the bottom fell out of the stock market after a period of market volatility and panic selling

group of 17,000 veterans who marched on Washington in May 1932

beginning in 1933, this New Deal program put nearly 3 million young men to work

group of unions broke from AFL in 1938 and organized effective union drives in the automobile and rubber industries

part of the Great Plains region that suffered severe drought and experienced severe dust storms during the 1930s

passed during the first hundred days of the Roosevelt admin, the body insured individual bank deposits

broadcasts on the radio by FDR addressed directly to the American people which made them feel he personally cared

in response to the Great Depression, Congress authorized this tariff in 1930

the American movie industry achieved unprecedented influence in the 1930s

groups of crude houses made of cardboard and spare wood

period from March through June of 1933, the first hundred days of the presidency of FDR

policy of disengaging the US from major world commitments and concentrating on US domesticissues

FDR's plan to increase the size of the Supreme Court

as governor and later senator from Louisiana, he instituted many New Deal-type programs

1933 New Deal legislation created the WPA that created jobs to put people back to work

part of the 1935 Wagner Act, which was a huge victory for organized labor

series of policies instituted by FDR and his advisors that attempted to offset the effects of the Great Depression on American society

coalition of labor unions and industrial workers, minorities, much of the middle class, and the Solid South

conceived by Cali doctor Francis Townsend in 1934, this plan would give every retired American $200 a month

practice in the late 1920s of buying stock and only paying in cash 10% of the value of that stock

established by Herbert Hoover in 1932 to offset the effects of the Depression

1935 New Deal program attempted to provide aid to the poorest farmers, resettle some, and establish cooperatives

tax legislation championed by FDR was called a "soak the rich" plan by his opponents

Franklin Roosevelt's wife

nine young black men accused of raping two white women in a railway boxcar

beginning in 1935, this did more to help the poor and tax the wealthy

labor tactic where workers refused to leave their factory until management meets their demands

1943 legislation limited the nature of labor action possible for the rest of the war

considered by many to be the most significant act passed during the New Deal

practice of purchasing either land or stocks with the intent of selling them for a higher price later

ambitious New Deal program that for the first time provided electricity to residents of the Tennessee Valley

concept that Americans should sacrifice either time or money for the well-being of their country

also called the National Labor Relations Act, this July 1935 act established major gains for organized labor

the goal of this New Deal program established in 1935 was to give out jobs quickly, even though wages were low