USH.4.6\ Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the First New Deal, including the Works Progress
Administration and the National Recovery Act.
USH.4.7 Explain the long-term effects of the Second New Deal, including its effects on agriculture,
labor, social welfare, and banking. (E)
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In addition to stone masons and carpenters, the Works Progress Administration also found jobs for _____ and _____ , hiring them to create beautiful paintings and to document the lives of previously-enslaved people.
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Congress created laws that protect labor unions and increased worker wages, even though many argued that businesses will simply ___ ___ ___ , if these law forced businesses to pay higher wages.
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___ ___ ___ began at a G.M. factory in Michigan, after Congress made unionization legal, and it was very effective.
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Social Security is like _____ ; we make premium payments now & receive benefits later, just like we pay taxes now and receive social security benefits later.
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In the last ten years, a little more than a 1/3rd of ___ ___ was used to make social security payments.
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Franklin Roosevelt threatened _____ and refused to let them leave the capitol building, so they would approve his economic programs; Mostly because the supreme court had invalidated two of his programs, the AAA and NRA.
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Democrats argued that FDR and the new deal needed to give money to the poor after taking it from the _____ , and that FDR needed to make more drastic changes to our capitalist system.
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The federal government taking control of the banks, and then ___ ___ , this is what Charles Coughlin was asking for, in an attempt to fix deflation.
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"...let's take these giant heaps of cash and make sure there is a _____ for anyone who needs it!" This is what Huey Long was screaming, as he attacked FDR's programs.
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The largest new deal program was called the ___ ___ ___ , which spent billions of dollars on construction jobs, and which provided jobs for over eight million people.
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_____ programs take place when a person pays into a program their whole lives and the government is legally required to use that program and pay the person back. The first _____ program was social security.
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The president is responsible for enforcing laws, and Congress is responsible for creating laws, so the ___ ___
declared the NRA unconstitutional, since the NRA allowed the president to create laws.
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Union membership increased by six million people once ____ ____ was granted by business owners, a key component against the great depression.
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The new deal began to face ____ from extremists in the democratic and republican parties, even though the new deal and FDR were universally loved in the beginning.
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Republicans argued that FDR was putting the country into debt, and that FDR's programs were giving the federal government ___ ___ ___ .
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In order to create jobs for the unemployed and to add money to the economy, when a person _____ at age sixty, Doctor Townsend asked the federal government to issue them hundreds of dollars a month to live on.
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Thanks to the new deal, at sixty five years of age, workers could now quit working and receive a ___ ___ check twelve times a year.
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Congress threatens to ______ the social security program all the time, because they must borrow money in order to send the social security checks to all recipients.
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Workers were able to _____ because of the National Recovery Act (NRA), so when the supreme court invalidated the NRA, this removed their right to [same], and FDR was afraid because he needed working-classes votes to be reelected.
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1935, Congress passed the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act), guaranteeing ___ ___ & establishing the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), to arbitrate between unions & companies.
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Most government programs are funded through taxes on what people "spend", but the social security program is funded by taxes on what people "earn", also known as ___ ___ .
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Father Coughlin thought Roosevelt's New Deal was too weak and demanded that the president inflate our _____ , which would combat deflation.
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Father Coughlin thought Roosevelt's New Deal was too weak and demanded that the president _____ our banks, which would take the banks away from private owners.
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