HISTORY 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Fair Labor Standards Act, Reciprocal Tariff Act, Eleanor Roosevelt
26 Oct 2016
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Reciprocal tariff act of 1934 fulfilled long tern southern objective of reducing tariffs on manufactured goods, allowed president to negotiate trade deals with other countries, giving. Black cabinet group of prominent black leaders who were appointed to prominent jobs throughout the fed govt. , eleanor roosevelt encouraged them to meet, discuss issues and communicate concerns to the administration, Naacp would use the court system to affect integration, causing discontent with fdr"s judiciary reorganization bill, Gavagan bill (1937) northern dem. voted in large numbers to make lynching a federal crime, Rep senators supported a filibuster by southern dem. to block the bill in the senate, represents northern dem. shift toward radical liberalism, and an emergent alliance between southern democrats and republicans. Congress, majority of opposition was from southern democrats, Fdr not able to do a whole lot after his re-election in "34 due to the solid (dem. ) south support falling away.
