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Title: Social Studies
Description: Roosevelt
Number of Cards: 19
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Author: khrystyna17
Created: 2012-01-09
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    • Question
    • Answer
    • Side 3
    • gold standard
      -a _________ standard in which one ________ of gold equaled a set number of ________
    • - monetary
      - ounce
      - dollars
    • fireside chats
      - direct ________ FDR held with the _________ people to let them know what he was trying __________.
    • - talks
      - American
      - accomplish
    • deficit spending
      - government practice of spending __________ money rather than raising _________
      - usually an attempt to boost the _______
    • - borrowed
      - taxes
      - economy
    • binding arbitration
      - a ________ party would listen to both sides and ______ the issues
    • -neutral
      - decide
    • sit-down strike
      - method of __________ work by sitting down at work and __________ to leave the ____________.
    • - boycotting
      - refusing
      - establishment
    • Social Security Act
      - a law requiring _________ and _______ to pay a _____
      - the money provides a monthly ________ for retired people
    • - workers
      - employers
      - tax

      - stipend
    • broker state
      - role of the ___________ to work out _______ among competing _________ groups
    • - government
      - conflicts
      - interest
    • safety net
      - safeguards and relief programs that ________ them against economic ________
    • - protected
      - disaster
    • New Deal
      - ___________'s policies for ending the ___________
    • - Roosevelt
      - Depression
    • bank holidays
      - the governors ________ the remaining banks before bank ________ could put them out of __________
    • - closed
      - run
      - business
    • Hundred Days
      The new president began to send ______ after bill to _________. Between March 9 and June 16, ______.
    • - bill
      - Congress
      - 1933
    • Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
      - ________ agency created by Congress to ________ the stock market and prevent ________.
    • - independent
      - regulate
      - fraud
    • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
      - to provide government insurance for bank ________ up to a certain amount.
      - __________ depositors
      - increased public ___________ in the banking system
    • - depositors
      - protected
      - confidence
    • Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
      - under this program, the government would pay ________ not to raise certain _______, and not to grow certain ________.
    • - farmers
      - livestock
      - crops
    • Works Progress Administration (WPA)
      - federal agency headed by _____________.
      - most controversial program was "_______________".
    • - Harry Hopkins

      - "Federal Number One"
    • National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
      - organized factory elections by ________ ballot to determine whether workers wanted a __________
    • - secret

      - union
    • Frances Perkin
      - Secretary of ___________-
      - First ______ cabinet member
      - became head of Dept. of Labor in ___________
    • - Labor

      - female

      - 1932
    • court-packing
      - considered Roosevelt's first serious political ________ as president
      - the _______ created the impression that the president was trying to ______ with Constitution's separation of powers & undermine the Court's independence
    • - mistake
      - interfere
    • John Maynard Keynes
      - British __________
      - theories were called ___________
    • - economist
      - Keynesianism