Kip Hacking Chapter 37 Text Assignment The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933-1938 READ pages 794-822, define the following terms and understand their significance: 1.)Eleanor Roosevelt- wife of Franklin Roosevelt and a strong advocate of human rights.She was also one of the most active first ladies in history. 2.)Brains Trust- as small group of reform-mined intellectuals.They were predominantly youngish college professors, who as a kind of kitchen cabinet, later authored much of the New Deal legislation. 3.)Hundred Days (March 9-June 16, 1933)- FDR summoned the overwhelmingly Democratic Congress into special session to cope with the national emergency. 4.)Emergency Banking Relief Act (1933)-The act allowed a plan that would close down insolvent banks and reorganize and reopen those banks strong enough to survive 5.)Fireside Chats-were a series of thirty evening radio speeches given by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944 6.)Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)-was created in 1933 to maintain public confidence and encourage stability in the financial system through the promotion of sound banking practices 7.)Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)- was a public work relief program for unemployed men, focused on natural resource conservation, started in 1933 8.)Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)- a program similar to unemployment- relief efforts of theReconstruction Finance Corporation(RFC) set up byHerbert Hoover and the U.S. Congress in 1932. It was established as a result of the Federal Emergency Relief Act 9.)Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)- restricted agricultural production in theNew Dealera by paying farmers to reduce crop area. Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus so as to effectively raise the value of crops, thereby giving farmers relative stability again 10.)Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC)- Its purpose was torefinancehomes to prevent foreclosure. It was used to extend loans from shorter loans to fullyamortized, longer term loans (typically 20-25 years). Through its work it granted long term mortgages to over a million people facing the loss of their homes 11.)Civil Works Administration (CWA- was established by theNew Dealduring theGreat Depressionto create jobs for millions of unemployed. The jobs were merely temporary, for the duration of the hard winter.Harry L. Hopkinswas put in charge of the organization. 12.)Works Progress Administration (WPA)-was the largestNew Deal agency, employing millions to carry outpublic worksprojects, including the construction of public buildings and roads, and operated large arts, drama, media andliteracyprojects. It fed children and redistributed food, clothing and housing 13.)National Recovery Administration (NRA- no, notthatone)-allowed industries to create "codes of faircompetition," which were intended to reduce "destructive competition" and to help workers by settingminimum wagesand maximum weekly hours. It also allowed industry heads to collectively setprice floors 14.)SchecterDecision (1935)-as a decision by the
