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AAA
________ used federal funds to pay farmers who agreed to reduce the size of their crops (so overproduction and low prices did not happen)
New Deal
Populists claimed that ________ created huge bureaucracies that interfered in local affairs and for failing to curve the power of the rich.
AAA
________ used federal funds to pay farmers who agreed to reduce the size of their crops (so overproduction and low prices did not happen)
Agricultural Adjustment Act
The ________ (AAA) was designed to regulate production and prices in an economic sector from which a quarter of all Americans still derived their livelihood.
US Steel
________ is among American companies who have acknowledged using African- American leased convict labor.
Wagner Act
The 1935 ________ encouraged trade unionism as a spur to economic recovery and a bulwark of American democracy.
Emergency Relief Appropriations Act
In 1935 Congress passed a $ 5 billion ________ that funded new agencies designed to provide useful and creative employment to millions.
Public Works Administration
________ (PWA) had $ 3.3 billion and produced dozens of government- financed dams, airports, courthouses, and bridges.
AFL
The ________ imposed membership restrictions on women, immigrants, and African- American workers.
1936 1937
The ________ Flint sit- down strike against General Motors (General Motors sit- down strike) changed the United Automobile Workers (UAW) from a collection of isolated locals on the fringes of the industry into a major labor union and led to the unionization of the domestic United States automobile industry.
Agricultural Adjustment Act
The ________ (AAA) was designed to regulate production and prices in an economic sector from which a quarter of all Americans still derived their livelihood.
Dust Bowl
Drought- The ________ in the midwest → many could not even pay their taxes or other debts and had to sell their farms for no profit to themselves.
Washington Movement
The March on ________ (MOWM) was the most militant and important force in African American politics in the early 1940s, formed in order to protest segregation in the armed forces.
BSCP
The ________ embodied Randolphs belief that segregation and racism were linked to the unfair distribution of wealth and power that condemned tens of millions of black and white Americans to chronic misery.
Convict leasing
________ provided prisoner labor to private parties, such as plantation owners and corporations (e.g.
lessee
The ________ was responsible for feeding, clothing, and housing the prisoners.
Sir Francis Galton
________ argued that social institutions such as welfare and mental asylums allowed inferior humans to survive and reproduce at higher levels.
General Motors
________ (GM) provided many men in Flint, Michigan with jobs in the 1930s, but the working conditions were horrible and the pay was unfair.
1919
The Red Summer refers to the summer and early autumn of ________, which was marked by hundreds of deaths and higher casualties across the United States, as a result of racial riots that occurred in more than three dozen cities and one rural county.
CIO
The AFL and ________ represented two competing views of labor organization- craft unionism and industrial unionism, respectively- and were bitter rivals, as each fought to poach workers from the other.
Universal Negro Improvement Association
The ________ and African Communities League (UNIA- ACL) is a black nationalist fraternal organization founded in 1914 in the United States by Marcus Mosiah Garvey, a Jamaican immigrant.
A Philip Randolph
Founded in 1925 by labour organizer and civil rights activist ________, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) aimed to improve the working conditions and treatment of African American railroad porters and maids employed by the Pullman Company, a manufacturer and operator of railroad cars.
President Woodrow Wilson
14 points was a speech ________ made to Congress on Jan 8th, 1918.
NWP
________ formed an alliance with President Wilson and united local and state suffrage groups in a centrally directed effort.
Debt Peonage
________ is when the sharecropper could not pay off their debts and could not leave their property.
American people
Communists and socialists played a large role in mobilizing discontent and turning the attention of the ________ to the federal government as a solution to their problem.
African
The organization was founded to work for the advancement of people of ________ ancestry around the world.
Fair Labor Standards Act
The ________ (FLSA) passed in 1938.
racial riots
The ________ against blacks resulted from a variety of postwar social tensions related to the demobilization of veterans of World War I, both black and white, and competition for jobs and housing among ethnic white people and black people.
National Labor Relations Act
The 1935 ________ (also known as the Wagner Act) required businesses to bargain in good faith with any union supported by the majority of their employees.
New Deal
________ was a bunch of programs that were designed to restore production and stability in banking, agriculture, and industry.
CIO
The ________ organized workers across entire industries, such as mining and auto manufacturing, and had a membership of more than 2.8 million within seven years of its founding.
Wagner Act
The ________ dramatically changed labor negotiations between employers and employees by promoting unions and acting as an arbiter to ensure "fair "labor contract negotiations.
NWP
The ________ prioritized the passage of a constitutional amendment ensuring women's suffrage throughout the United States.
Convict leasing
________ was a system of penal labor practiced in the Southern United States.
Wagner Act
The 1935 ________ encouraged trade unionism as a spur to economic recovery and a bulwark of American democracy.
Fourteen points called for free trade, freedom of the seas, arms reduction, arbitration of international disputes, and adjustment of European borders along ethnic lines
all to be achieved through open negotiation of public treaties
Stock Market Crash of 1929
Occurred on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929
Bank Failures
Throughout the 1930s over 9,000 banks failed
Reduction in Purchasing Across the Board
With the stock market crash and the fears of further economic woes, individuals from all classes stopped purchasing items
American Economic Policy with Europe
As businesses began failing, the government created the Smoot-Hawley Tariff in 1930 to help protect American companies
Drought
The Dust Bowl in the midwest → many could not even pay their taxes or other debts and had to sell their farms for no profit to themselves
Industrial unionism
in which all workers in the same industry are organized into the same union, regardless of differences in skill
Organized many protests
with 50,000 people protesting in Boston and 100,000 protesting in Detroit
Worked in industries that were most affected by the economic downturn
unskilled manufacturing, construction, mining, and lumber
Important
US decides in these cases that the internment camps are legal and constitutional
New Dealers blamed "underconsumption"
low wages cause less purchasing, an inequitable distribution of income, and a capitalist system that was no longer growing
The goals of this organization are
to improve housing standards and conditions; to provide an adequate home financing system through insurance of mortgage loans; and to stabilize the mortgage market
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