New Deal
1st New Deal
- Help get jobs
- end overproduction and raise price of crops
- regulate stock market
- make investments safer
- faith in banks
2nd New Deal
- Improve use of national resources
- security towards old age
- unemployment and illness
- in favor of poor, old, farmers, and labor unions
- The first deal was on restoring economics (banks) and the second deal dealt with people and to help peoples lives
3 R's
- Relief- provide help for unemployed
- Recovery- help the economy bounce back after the depression
- Reforms- prevent crisis from happening again
Franklin Roosevelt idea to get out of the new depression
The Unemployed
- The new deal really wanted to help the unemployed people
- Laissez-Faire was not a thing anymore
- Farm Tenancy Act (1937) - aid to poor farmers, homestead projects, loaned money to farmers, camps, health care programs
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)- provided jobs for single men, ages 18-25, they gave men shelter, clothing and food, paid $30 a month, but had to send $25 to family
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)- provided unskilled jobs for adults, construction, canned foods, ect.
- Civil Words Administration (CWA)- Mostly unskilled men, roads, bridges, schools, ect.
- Public Work Administration (PWA)- Dams, bridges, hospitals, schools, roads, railroads
- Works Public Administrations (WPA)- Largest of any agency in the new deal, government jobs, orchestra jobs
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