Monday:
no school
Tuesday:
how did the new deal help unemployed people:
- unemployed people
- young people
- banks
- stock market
- factory workers
- farmers
- homeowners
- elderly
- consumers
- native americans
Nation youth administration:-----young people
- provided part time work for college kids
- wide range of jobs
Federal Emergency Relief Act:-------unemployed people
- aid for people
- jobs
Public Works Administration:-------unemployed people
- construction projects
- lots of buildings
Civil Works Administration, same as PWA, but this only lasted 1 year:
Works Progress Administration:
- same as PWA and CWA
- but this focused on the arts
- like actors or poets
- kind of like plays on Broadway
- small cities
Camp David:----built by the WPA
- one of the president's vacation homes
Emergency Banking Relief:-------banks
- and idea to stop banks from closing by people taking their money out
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation:
- if banks closed down you would be insured you would get your money back
Wednesday:
Federal Securities Act:--------stocks
- passed in 1933
- made the stock market a safer place for people to invest their money
- two goals:
- required that investors receive significant information regarding securities being offended.........need to get the rest
Securities and exchange commission:
- established in 1934 and is still around today
- this organization regulates the stock market
National Industrial Recovery Act:------factory workers or consumers
- shared hours------two people worked, instead of one person working full time, the time would be split in half between two people
- blue eagle codes---------a sign on business's windows--------they mean that they try their best to give their workers good hours for a good pay and they have fair prices for their customers
- this later became unconstitutional
National Labor Relations Act/Board:
- established in 1935
- conducts elections for unions
- stresses collections bargaining
- investigation and fixes unfair labor practices
Fair Labor standard Act:
- established a national minimum wage-40 cents /hour
- established the 40 hours work week
- guaranteed time and half for overtime in certain jobs
Agricultural Adjustment act:
- they paid farmers to plant less crops
- bu they too it a step further
- they paid farmers to destroy crops and animals, slip milk
- then it was declared unconstitutional
Soil Conservation Act:
- farmers were education to take better care of their crops
- plant trees
- rotating crops
- irrigation
Tennessee valley Authority:
- created to generate electric power and control floods in a seven state region around the Tennessee River Valley
- still around today
Rural Electrification Administration:
- brought electricity to the country
Farm Security administration:
- granted small farmers and tenant farmers money to purchase farms
- farmers who have only like 100 or 200 acres would be given money
- they also took photograph of farmers
- Dorothea Lange---took photos
- this was to show the city people what the struggles were that farmers had
Home Owner's Loan Corporation:
- people couldn't afford their homes or farms, so it would be taken away by the bank
- people could pay a monthly payment so its easier to have a fancy house but pay able to afford it
Friday:
Federal Housing Administration:
- to improve housing standards
- to make sure they are descent quality
- instead of people pay their house off in 5 years, paid of in 15 or 20 years
United States Housing Authority:
- they gave loans out to states
- states gave it to construction companies would build homes for middle and lower class people
social security Administration:
- retirement system for our country
- if I get in a car accident and can't work, I can take my social security money and use it
food drug, and cosmetic Act:
- making sure drugs are safe
- making sure soap, deodorant, etc. is safe
Indian Reservation Act:
- to tell the native americans to go back to the way they used to
Test:
2 day group test
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