Ch. 15 Test Topics
Describe the cycle of the Great Depression?
What was the New Deal(1st and 2nd) and it's goals(3 R's)?
3 R's
1)Relief - relief of the people that done have jobs or money
2)Reform - banking system and econonimal system needed to be reformed
3)Recovery - recover from the Great Depression
New deal: FDR's plan to get us out of the Great Depression
1st New Deal: focus: they wanted to focus on helping top down. (trickle down theory) they'd help businesses and banks and it would trickle down to help everyone
2nd New Deal: focus: bottom up. if they could get people jobs they would get money and start spending it which would help businesses.
Why did people criticize the New Deal?
Reasons the New Deal was challenged:
1)created a very powerful president that led congress, this was a violation of checks & balances.
2)it was a radical departure from Lassez Faire ideals. Created "big government"
3)Some acts appeared interfearing and at worst unconstitutional
4)Heavy debt burden - the US was engaged in deficit spending and this was unhealthy for the economy in the long run
Father Charles Caughlin - sensored and forced off the radio because he was against jews. He was against Roosevelt for doing too much.
Francis Townshend - felt like roosevelt wasn't doing anything to help the elderly. helped get the social security thing passed eventually
Senator Huey Long - wanted to run for president but was assinated. He was a communist. Would have taken from the rich and given to the poor. Tryed to bring about equality.
Why was FDR upset with the US Supreme Court and what did he do to try to solve this issue?
Indian Reorganization Act 1934
-Treatment of the first native americans? -how were they treated? -what was the main item that was taken from the natives. -what happened to the tatives when they got captured?
-Also known as Wheeler-Howard Act or Indian New Deal
What the act did:
-Returning Native Americans their assets back; which was mostly land
-to prevent the decrease in reservation resources
-to build one economy between all the self-government tribal basis
-When white men caught the Natives they sent them to reservations with little food or water
What the act did for them:
-in the end the Natives lost a great deal and were placed in reservations in selected areas of the Us the indians also got to lead their own type of government.
Indian Reorganixation Act terminate the Dawes Act's allotment system. This means the Natives now had the rights to acredit system educational oppertunities and limiteed sovereignty.
How did the New Deal help:
unemployed
-RFC: gave loans to banks, state, and local govt's and businesses to create jobs for people. gave states loans for emergency relief. started under Hoover. Not as successful as Hoover had hoped. Dissolved in 1946 after WW11
farmers
factory workers/labor
young people
banks/business
-RFC
home owners
elderly
Native Americans
Describe the culture of the 1930's.
Key terms:
Hundred Days-Roosevelt promised he'd get a lot done in his first 100 days
fireside chats-Roosevelt used the radio to talk over the radio to communicate to everyone.
priming the pump-priming the pump lead to defecit spending. (water wells). priming the pump meant that the government was going to put money out in the economy to get it to start "flowing"
deficit spending-spending more money then you take in
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