APUSH Period 7 Part 2 Test Review Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass

APUSH Period 7 Part 2 Test Review Exam Questions and Answers 100% Pass Reconstruction Finance Corporation - a government agency established during the Hoover administration which provided emergency relief by loaning money to failing businesses Bonus Army - a protest movement of World War I veterans in 1932 demanding early payment of service bonuses not due until 1945 to help them through the Great Depression and to provide a stimulus for the economy Smoot-Hawley Tariff - originally designed to protect American industries by raising the cost of imported goods but resulted in a trade war as other nations also raised their tariffs, leading to a huge decrease in international trade Glass-Steagall Act - established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) which guaranteed all bank deposits up to $5000 and separated commercial banks (could take deposits and make loans with government guarantees) and investment banks (could invest in the stock market at their own risk) New Deal - a term for the programs and legislation developed during Franklin Roosevelt's administration aimed at ending the Great Depression 2© EMILY CHARLENE YEAR , ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Fireside chats - speeches broadcast nationally over the radio in which President Franklin Roosevelt explained complex issues and programs in plain language Economy Act - gave FDR the power to cut government workers' salaries, reduce payments to military veterans for non-service-connected disabilities, and to reorganize federal agencies in the interest of reducing expenses; expanded the role of the presidency more then any other act prior to it Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA) - granted federal funds to state and local agencies to help the unemployed; pumped $500 million into state welfare programs Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) - the most popular New Deal agency, through which unemployed young men worked in rural camps planting forests, pruning trees, building parks, and shoring up the nation's wild lands Agricultural Adjustment Act - sought to shore up farm prices with a program to plow under 10.5 million acres of cotton and slaughter 6 million piglets Civilian Works Administration (CWA) - a short-lived U.S. job creation program established by the New Deal during the Great Depression to rapidly create manual labor jobs for 4 million men & women, mainly improving or constructing buildings and bridges Public Works Administration (PWA) - helped construction workers get jobs doing public projects (highways, bridges, sewers) National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) - a law enacted to establish codes of fair practice for industries and to promote industrial growth; established National Recovery Administration (NRA) to set maximum hours and minimum wages for workers & stimulated industry by fixing prices and setting production limits 3© EMILY CHARLENE YEAR , ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) - subsidized farmers; designed to raise agricultural prices by paying farmers not to farm; based on the assumption that higher prices would increase farmers' purchasing power and thereby help alleviate the Great Depression Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) - monitors the stock market and enforces laws regulating the sale of stocks and bonds to prevent another stock market crash Tennessee Vallery Authority (TVA) - built dams on the Tennessee River that would control floods, bring electricity to rural areas that were without it and provide jobs Indian New Deal - a series of policy changes, including the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 that transformed government Indian policy and strengthened Indian tribal government of the reservations Father Charles Coughlin - an anti-Semitic radio priest who criticized the New Deal; called for nationalization of US banks Francis Townsend - physician and critic of the New Deal;