CH. 11 ~ Great Depression & New Deal SS.912.A.5.11 & 5.12}

New Deal Agency that provided jobs for the development of the American infrastructure

Largest New Deal program; employed millions

• Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

• New Deal

• Works Progress Administration (WPA)

• Dust Bowl

New Deal Agency that investigated modern farming practices

Created a network of dams and power plants to supply electricity

• Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

• New Deal

• Dawes Plan

• Bonus Expeditionary Force

New Deal program that provided retirement benefits and unemployment insurance for American taxpayers

One of the longest running programs of the New Deal

• Dawes Plan

• Neutrality Act

• Volstead Act

• Social Security

Act regulating trade with foreign countries to encourage U.S. industries during the Depression

Implemented protectionist trade policies; Raised tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods

• Prohibition

• Smoot-Hawley Tariff

• Volstead Act

• Dawes Plan

Form of civil-disobedience; used by unions to occupy companies they were on strike against

Strategy used in 1936-37 against General Motors to drawn attention to their demands; GM was forced to negotiate

• Sit-Down Strike

• Prohibition

• NAACP

• Communists

FDR’s programs for national recovery from the Great Depression

Reforms – remedies to problems: FDIC, SEC, Social Security Act

Relief – short-terms actions to assist people: CCC, WPA, PWA

Recovery – restore incentives to

• New Deal

• Big Four

• Four Point Treaty

• Dawes Plan

New Deal Law designed to promote recovery and reform in industry

Encouraged collective bargaining for unions

Set up maximum work hours and minimum wages Outlawed child labor

• FDIC

• National Recovery Act (NRA)

• Four Point Treaty

• Big Four

1935 – foundational statute of the U.S. labor law

Guarantees basic rights for employees to organize into trade unions, bargain collectively for better terms and working conditions and strike if necessary

• National Labor Relations Act

• National Recovery Act (NRA)

• Red Scare

• New Deal

Estimate of total value of all the final products and services produced in a given time period in a country

• National Labor Relations Act

• Gross National Product

• Teapot Dome

• Red Scare

New Deal program created in 1933 to maintain public confidence and create stability in the financial system

Insures deposits in U.S. banks in the event of bank failures

Promotes and holds financial institutions responsible for sound banking practices

• Prohibition

• NRA

• CCC

• FDIC