3. What did the United States government do to help alleviate the problems the Great Depression brought to our country?
President Hoover
How did the New Deal impact the following: unemployed, young people, factory workers/labor unions, farmers, elderly/poor, homeowners, artists/musicians, women/African-American/Native Americans, banks, stock market, energy
Roosevelt-New Deal(Goals/1st and 2nd)- helped with the devastation of the great depression, helped millions, help get jobs, reduce spending, regulate stock market faith in banks, 1933-1935 improve use of national resources, security towards old age, unemployment and illness, 1935-1940 3 R's relief, recovery, and reform
unemployed-in just 4 years it had 6 million more jobs for people, farm tenancy act- aid to poor farmers, homestead projects loaned money to farmers, camps, CCC- provide jobs for single men, ages 18-25, paid 30 dollars a month, FERA- provide jobs for adults, construction, writing, music, CWA- mostly unskilled men, roads, bridges, school, artists, PWA- dams, bridges, hospitals, schools, roads, railroads, WPA- largest of any agency, government jobs, NYA- for younger people, 15-20, pay for studies in school
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