Chapter 24 VOCAB

a program under the WPA which gave unemployed writers a chance to do their work and receive a government salary.

• Social Security Act

• Civil Conservation Corps

• Federal Emergency Relief Act

• Federal Writers' Project

a program that aimed for the industries to accept codes that maintained a minimum wage for the workers, maximum hours they can work per week, and the abolition of child labor. This made it so no companies were able to lower wages and made it so no company had an advantage over another. This program didn't really work because the codes were poorly written.

• Tennessee Valley Authority (tva)

• Securities and exchange commission (sec)

• Congress of industrial organizations (cio)

• National Recovery Administration (NRA)

eloquent leader of the United Mine Workers. Lewis attempted to work with the AFL but once they were unable to compromise, Lewis created the CIO

• Huey Long

• Harry Hopkins

• Francis E. Townsend

• John L. Lewis

A New York social worker who headed the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and Civil Works Administration. He helped grant over 3 billion dollars to the states wages for work projects, and granted thousands of jobs for jobless Americans. Also directed the WPA.

• Huey Long

• Harry Hopkins

• Frances Perkins

• Marian Anderson

a court case of which said that the Schechter Brothers violated the NRA code. The Schechter Brothers operated a wholesale poultry business confined to Brooklyn. The NIRA was declared unconstitutional and the Supreme Court held that the Live Poultry Code was unconstitutional and that the conviction of Schechter must be overturned..

• Schechter Brothers Case

• Broker State

• Second New Deal

• Frances Perkins

workers sat down inside the GM plants, refusing to work or leave. The strikers ignored court orders and local police efforts to force them to leave the buildings. This led to GM becoming the first major manufacturer to recognize the UAW and soon other automobile companies did the same.

• Deficit Spending

• Sit-Down Strike

• Works Progress Administration

• Broker State

called for the closing of all banks for four days until Congress could meet i special session to consider banking reform legislation, which created the Emergency Banking Act.

• harry Hopkins

• broker State

• huey Long

• "Bank Holiday"

senator of Louisiana who rose to power (first as governor then ran for senate afterwards) through his harsh attacks on the banks, oil companies, and utilities and on the conservative political oligarchy which allied with them. Many considered him a dictator but he remained in power due to his progressive accomplishments such as building roads, schools and hospitals. He also revised the tax codes, distributed free textbooks, and lowered utility rates.

• John L. Lewis

• Huey Long

• Frances Perkins

• Harry Hopkins

an elderly California physician who rose from obscurity to lead a movement of more than 5 million members with his plan for federal pensions for the elderly. Created the townsend Act which gave all americans over the age of 60, monthly pensions of $200

• Harry Hopkins

• Charles E. Coughlin

• Francis E. Townsend

• John L. Lewis

appeared in response to both the growing political pressures and the continuing economic crisis. The president started openly attacking corporate interests. FDR proposed to congress to break up the great utility holding companies and spoke harshly of the monopolistic control of their industry.

• Second New Deal

• Social Security Act

• Works Progress Administration

• Fair Labor Standards Act