social science groups

Farm interest group that wanted inflation, price parity, and agricultural mortgage relief

Group that reported an unemployment rate of 18% in southern cities in 1928

Federal agency that paid 4.2 million Americans to work on roads, schools, recreational areas, and airports; accused of hiring people to carry out useless make-work projects, such as the placement of snowshoe rabbits on the Kodiak Islands

Popular federal agency that hired 250,000 unemployed young men to participate in conservation projects

Group of presidential economic advisors; traded healthcare for Social Security

House of Representatives committee led by Martin Dies; accused the Federal Arts Project of spreading communist propaganda

Group suggested by advocates of consumer interests

White House institution created during Harry Truman’s administration in order to give the president guidance on economic issues

Cabinet level department suggested by advocates of consumer interests

Organization created by Roosevelt in order to prevent a March on Washington by the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; affirmed the duty of the national government to ensure equality in employment

Later version of the Resettlement Administration

Agency created for airline regulation

National police institution that was largely ineffective until Roosevelt renovated it in an effort to mitigate the public’s sense of vulnerability to criminals

Institution provided for in the Glass-Steagall Banking Act in order to protect small banks; insured accounts up to $2,500

Agency created by Congress and headed by Harry Hopkins; distributed federal money to local agencies for the purposes of immediate relief

Group created by Congress and Herbert Hoover; ineffectively tried to stop the decline in agricultural prices by buying surplus crops

Agency created by the National Housing Act of 1934; along with the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, set the stage for the modern mortgage and real estate sector

12-bank institution in charge of American monetary policy; maintained a tight credit policy immediately before the Great Depression and is largely blamed for causing the economic collapse

Institution created by the National Housing Act of 1934; along with the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, set the stage for the modern mortgage and real estate sector

Agency charged with the duty of supervising new securities by the Securities Act of 1933

Agency created by the Home Owners Refinancing Act in order to help prevent foreclosures

Group created by John Collier with the goal of supporting traditional native artists and enabling them to sell their work

Part of the National Recovery Administration

Institution created to distribute private loans for the reconstruction of post-World War I Europe and the industrialization of Third World countries

Economic institution created as part of a new international economic system

Theoretical organization planned by the United States and Great Britain for the minimizing of trade barriers; never established due to the prevailing isolationist attitude in the United States

Federal agency established to regulate the prices of railroad, trucking, and water carrier services

See International Trade Organization

International group that preceded the United Nations; supported by Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt but sacrificed to appease isolationists

International judicial court; rejected by Congress in 1935 due to the forcefulness of the isolationist minority

Institution created by Herbert Hoover in October 1931; intended to spend $500 million on toxic assets in order to stop the bank panic

Group created by Roosevelt in order to satisfy both labor advocates and businessmen; established the Reading Formula, which was beneficial to labor but not enforced

Group established to settle labor disputes; largely unsuccessful due to a lack of power

Federal agency that did not enforce the wages and hours established by new industry codes

Group through which Roosevelt significantly increased federal spending

Youth division of the Works Progress Administration; provided work study jobs to high school and college students

Republican group that demonstrated that corporate conspiracies fueled American involvement in World War I; supported by isolationists and pacifists

Federal agency that was dedicated to solving a broad variety of issues; demonstrated a departure from the previous policy of working on problems individually

Agency dedicated to helping charities during Herbert Hoover’s administration

Group established by Roosevelt to maximize the efficiency of demobilization after World War II; advised a substantial benefit package for veterans

Organization created by Harry Truman in 1946 in order to demonstrate his commitment to racial equality

Federal agency headed by Harold Ickes and created by the National Industrial Recovery Act with the aim of transferring government money to citizens; constructed numerous new buildings, including housing projects

Institution established by Herbert Hoover in 1932; had the power to loan $2 billion of taxpayer money to banks

Agency created during the second New Deal to help poor farmers; helped farmers relocate to higher quality land and learn more efficient techniques

Federal agency established by Congress in the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935; worked on projects to distribute electricity in rural areas

• Federal agency created to prevent insider market manipulation and to regulate trading practices
• Social Security Board
• Group in charge of the management of Social Security

New York agency that inspired the Federal Emergency Relief Administration

Federal agency that succeeded on numerous fronts, including the control of floods, provision of electricity, operation of the Muscle Shoals power plant, improvement of crop yields, reforestation, and restoration of wildlife habitats

American division of the Communist Party; supported southern sharecroppers

Agency created by the Wagner-Steagall Act in 1937; provided 60-year loans to local groups for public housing projects

Institution provided for by the G.I. Bill; employed 17% of the federal workforce in 1948

Group through which Roosevelt significantly increased federal spending

Federal agency created in 1935 and led by Harry Hopkins; represented an effort to unite previous public works projects, which were separate

Another name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Group of labor unions divided by trade; a conservative organization established in the late 19th century and led by William Green

Organization strongly opposed to national healthcare

Group of World War I veterans that protested in Washington, D.C., in order to secure an early payment of benefits

African American organization led by Asa Philip Randolph; threatened the federal government with a March on Washington to protest segregation and racial discrimination

Crime organization led by Al Capone

See Committee for Industrial Organization

Educational institution that Franklin D. Roosevelt began attending in 1904

Group created by John L. Lewis to organize unskilled industrial laborers; later known as the Congress of Industrial Organizations

Another name for the Committee for Industrial Organization

Group of women that denied Marian Anderson the use of the Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C.

College that Franklin D. Roosevelt began attending in 1899

Union of women that was extremely active during the 1934 general strike

San Francisco organization that planned the San Francisco General Strike, effectively crippling operations in the city

Groups that distributed communist propaganda in literature, movies, and music; first appeared in Chicago

Southern organization formed by Confederate veterans in order to fight local governments

Organization through which Eleanor Roosevelt pursued her own public goals in charity work

Highly esteemed American civil rights organization; helped defend the Scottsboro boys

Group dedicated to the interests of countries that export petroleum; raised oil prices in 1973 because of the Yom Kippur War

• Group established by the National Association of Manufacturers to influence the Industrial Advisory Board
• Stable Money League
• Farm interest group that wanted inflation, price parity, and agricultural mortgage relief

Groups dedicated to the promotion of Francis Townsend’s pension plan idea; had more than 500,000 members by 1935

Union of employees in the automobile industry; recognized by General Motors after a successful sit-down strike in December 1936

Organization of housewives that orchestrated a New York City protest against butcher shops in 1935

Union that assisted the United Textile Workers in the 1934 strike

Union that organized the first sit-down strike, which proved much more effective than the typical picketing strike

Union of employees in the steel industry; recognized by the United States Steel Corporation on March 1, 1937

Union that began the 1934 strike; received no help from the AFL