After reading Chapter 24, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each of the following:

First New Deal, Second New Deal

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

bonus marchers

John Dos Passos

brain trust

Frances Perkins

Bank holiday, Emergency Banking Act, and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

the Hundred Days

Civilian Conservation Corps

Federal Emergency Relief Act

Harry Hopkins

Tennessee Valley Authority

Agricultural Adjustment Acts, 1933, 1938

Harold Ickes and the Public Works Administration

National Recovery Administration and Section 7a

Federal Securities Act and the Securities and Exchange Commission

Southern Tenant Farmers' Union

dust bowls and "Okies"

Charles E. Coughlin, Francis E. Townsend, and Huey Long

Works Progress Administration (WPA) and the Federal Arts Projects

John Maynard Keynes and Keynesian economics

Resettlement and Farm Security administrations

Rural Electrification Administration

National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act

Social Security Act

Revenue Act of 1935 ("Soak the Rich" law)

Mary McLeod Bethune and the "black cabinet"

Molly Dewson

John Collier and the Indian Reorganization Act, 1934

Housing Act of 1937

Fair Labor Standards Act, 1938

Richard Wright

John L. Lewis, Sidney Hillman, and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

Walter Reuther, the United Automobile Workers (UAW) and the sit-downs

Scottsboro boys

Marx Brothers

Fascism and Nazism

Popular Front

Francisco Franco, Spanish Loyalists, and the Spanish Civil War

Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

James Agee and Walker Evans, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

Benny Goodman, Count Basie, and Glenn Miller

Zora Neal Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

William Faulkner