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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH CHAPTER 28
EXAM QUESTIONS
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Question 1: blanket code
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Code pledging employers generally to observe the same labor standards as applied to cotton textiles, proposed by National Recovery Administration (NRA) head Hugh S. Johnson to stabilize business by reducing chaotic competition through the implementation o
Question 2: Tennessee Valley Authority
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Created in 1933 to control flooding in the Tennessee River Valley, provide work for the region's unemployed, and produce inexpensive electric power for the region.
Question 3: fireside chat Radio addresses by President Franklin
- Roosevelt.
Twenty-First Amendment
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Amendment of 1933 that repealed prohibition on the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages, effectively nullifying the Eighteenth Amendment.
Question 4: National Industrial Recovery Act
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Act of 1933 passed on the last of the Hundred Days that created public-works jobs through the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and established a system of self-regulation for industry through the National Recovery Administration, which was ruled un
Question 5: Okies
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Displaced farm families from the Oklahoma dust bowl who migrated to California during the 1930s in search of jobs.
Question 6: Hundred Days
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Extraordinarily productive first three months of President Franklin
- Roosevelt's administration in which a special session of Congress enacted fifteen of his New Deal
proposals.
Question 7: totalitarianism
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Form of government based around autocratic control that developed in opposition to democratic capitalism in the 1930s.
Question 8: Frances
- Townsend
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California doctor who thought up a popular social scheme based on government pensions for the aged as a solution to the hardships of the Depression.
Question 9: craft union
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Restrictive unions made up of skilled male workers.
Question 10: court-packing plan
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President Franklin
- Roosevelt's failed 1937 attempt to increase the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices from nine to
fifteen in order to save his Second New Deal programs from constitutional challenges.
Question 11: U.S. v. Butler
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Supreme Court ruling from 1936 that declared unconstitutional the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 tax on food processors.
Question 12: Scottsboro case
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In overturning verdicts in 1931 against nine black youths accused of raping two white women, the U.S.Supreme Court established precedents in Powell v. Alabama (1932), that adequate counsel must be appointed in capital cases, and in Norris v. Alabama (193
Question 13: John Collier
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Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) under President Franklin Roosevelt who increased the number of Native Americans employed by the BIA and lobbied strenuously with the heads of New Deal agencies to ensure that Indians gained access to the
Question 14: Committee for Industrial Organizations
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Umbrella organization of semiskilled industrial unions formed in 1935 as the Committee for Industrial Organization within the American Federation of Labor, but expelled from the AFL and renamed in 1938 the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
Question 15: industrial union
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Unions made up of all workers.
Question 16: brain trust
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Group of advisers-many of them academics-that Franklin
- Roosevelt assembled to recommend New Deal policies during the early months of his presidency.
Question 17: Eleanor Roosevelt
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Wife of Franklin
- Roosevelt who became one of the most influential and revered leaders of her time and redefined the
role of presidential spouse; an activist and agitator who was ardently concerned about issues of human welfare and rights for women and
Question 18: welfare capitalism
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Term for the sense of entitlement to federal support programs that workers developed due to Franklin Roosevelt's measures to relieve the human suffering and promote economic recovery.
Question 19: Wagner Act
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Also known as the National Labor Relations Act of 1935; established the National Labor Relations Board and facilitated unionization by regulating employment and bargaining practices.
Question 20: John L. Lewis
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Union leader of the United Mine Workers who was among the first to exploit the spirit of the NIRA, and promoted a campaign to organize workers in the mass-production industries.
Question 21: section 7a
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Section of the National Industrial Recovery Act that demanded in every industry code a statement of the workers' right to organize.
Question 22: Richard Wright
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One of the most talented young novelists to emerge in the 1930s whose Native Son (1940) managed to sublimate into literary power his bitterness and rage at what he called "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow".
Question 23: Huey P. Long
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Louisiana Senator and political boss who was an outspoken critic of President Franklin Roosevelt and proposed his own Share Our Wealth program to rival Roosevelt's New Deal; was assassinated in 1935.
Question 24: Charles
- Coughlin
Answer:
Roman Catholic "radio priest'' who founded the National Union for Social Justice in 1934, promoted schemes for the coinage of silver and made attacks on bankers that carried growing overtones of anti-Semitism.