Today we had Blog Discussion and we continued the New Deal Presentations.
Blog Discussion:
Nathan: Selma Alabama: 600 people left the city marching for black rights and went 6 blocks and were attacked on a bridge. They were attacked by tear gas and clubs, Martin Luther King Jr. organized 3,200 people and had 25,000 when they got to the capital of Alabama.
Jenna: The Red summer of 1919 was a lot of riots in the North and South. Many people died and people were injured.
Nick did the freedom rides. It was when people went on the interstate transportation and people tried to get the segregation off buses and other transportation. Eventually, they got segregation off public items and many of the freedom rides were put in jail and they were arrested and charged with illegal formation of a mob, and trespassing.
April did her Blog over Madison something; April needs to speak up so we can hear her. I did not hear a single word she said and that is why there is no information over who she Blogged about.
Then the Discussions are ended.
New Deal Presentations:
What was the New Deal about (1st and 2nd) and its goals (3 R's)?
The three R’s of the New Deal were Relief, Reform, and Recovery.
Relief: was to help the unemployed and badly hurt farmers.
Reform: of businesses and financial practices.
Recovery: of the economy during the Great Depression.
Why did people criticize the New Deal?
Why was FDR upset with the US Supreme Court, and what did he do to try to solve this issue?
How did the New Deal help-
unemployed- The Federal Emergency Relief Act helped to try and get us out of the Depression. It gave money to the states to give to helped to checks to unemployed to be able to buy necessary things. The Act helped give 15 million people jobs and a lot of money was wasted and was ended in 1934. It lost a lot of money by useless spending and made many people angry because it caused people to not have jobs because of the welfare checks, they did not have to get jobs. The Public Work Administration budgeted several billion dollars on large projects to help the U.S. economy. Helped economic growth in the U.S. and did not restart the spread of smaller businesses in the U.S. It was not very successful. Helped many people get jobs building many schools, dams, buildings and other large projects. The Civil Works Administration was established in the Great Depression in 1933 and it provided many jobs to unemployed U.S. citizens and provided many construction jobs to the unemployed. It was set up under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and it cost $200 million dollars a month and hired 4 million people at really high wages that were to expensive for the business to keep running. The CWA ended March 31, 1934 under the recommendation of Lewis Douglas.
farmers- The Farm Security Administration helped farmers make up new farming techniques and basically took their farm and told them what to plant, how to plant it and how to harvest it. The FSA failed because farmers wanted to own and work their own land not government owned land. Cooperative farms, worked with many people farming on a stretch of land and most of the time it failed and some ended up liking it and bought their own farm land.
factory workers/labor- The NRA created minimum wages and maximum weekly working hours. The NRA helped to make sure that they got better wages for the amount they worked. It was successful and they had a lot of good tings that are still around today. The NIRA explained a lot of the rules that the NRA created. People put the Blue Eagle in their windows to show that people have good and rightful wages, and have as much as or less than the maximum work hours.
young people- The Civilian Conservation Corps helped 18-25 year old young men by planting trees, building forests and national parks. The CCC payed 30 dollars a month and 25 went back to their families to help them.
banks/business- FDIC insured the money that people put into banks. It was insurance on people’s money in banks. The FDIC has been a great add-on the banking system in the U.S. It does not insure Safe Deposit boxes or theft and fraud in banks and will not insure against Stocks. The First New Deal helped with the banks and businesses and helped to stop the suffrage of people during the Great Depression. The New Deal Strategy helped against the Depression. The First New Deal helped get the Banks up and going. The Second New Deal took place in 1935 to 1941. It helped from the bottom up and it helped the people who did not have jobs in banks. The Banking Act of 1935 helped insure all of the people’s money that they put into the bank was insured. The Banks were being more responsible and organized. This helped people begin to trust the banks again. The Banks are still insuring their money.
home owners- The Home Owners’ Loan Act helped people to buy houses, but the downfall was that they had to pay it off in 5 to 10 years which is to short of a time when you are getting paid not a lot of money in a month. The main bank gave long term loans for people to be able to pay off their mortgages on their houses. The HOLA was extremely racist and FDR shied away from helping African Americans. The federal Housing Administration helps people pay large amounts on house mortgages. Helped people that were not doing so well during the Great Depression get their homes and allowed them to keep it without it being foreclosed upon. The United States Housing Authority was established in 1937. Provided for the lower cost construction of houses for low-wage U.S. citizens. Nearly 650,000 housing units like apartments and houses which created jobs for the low-wage earning people. To be considered a Welfare Unit citizen, you had to make 20 percent less in income than low-wage U.S. citizens. The welfare units were created for the poor and the people had to have a job and work hard to get a housing unit. The Civil rights group were told to be used by a racial segregated housing units.
elderly-
Native Americans-
Consumers- The Food Drug and Cosmetic Act was when a doctor started to put liquid forms of the drugs. Many people died because of the drug, and it helped to amend and pass another act. There was testing on everything that was going to be sold in the U.S. It also caused people to use stricter and more developed things in the selling of goods and other thing s in the U.S. and this will be better for the people.
Stock Market- Social and Exchange Commission told brokers and bankers that they had to tell the truth about everything that they did with a customer. If they did not they could get a lot of trouble. The SEC is still around today, and helps to regulate the stock market and everything that happened in the stock market. The SEC helped to stop pooling, or the selling of a stock to other people that you sold the stock to, to make a lot of money.
Describe the culture of the 1930's.
FDR was the 32nd President of the United States, elected in 1932 and served a 3 term, 12 years, and the now most someone could not serve more than a 2 term, 8 years. President Roosevelt ran for New York Senate seat, and won. When FDR spoke he was standing up, but because of polio he had to have someone hold him up will he spoke so not to ruin his Presidency.
Key terms:
Hundred Days- A special session of congress from March 9, 1933 to June 16, 1933 called by President Roosevelt in which an important social legislation in held.
fireside chats- An informal address by a political leader over a radio or television.
priming the pump- It was how President Roosevelt planned to get the U.S. economy in a better condition and maybe get out of the Great Depression. Tried to get the economy in a better condition to get people to jump start the economy and the economy would get going and then they would end in a better condition until they probably spend more money than they made. This caused more people to have more and more debt.
deficit spending- The amount of money that the Government can spend in one year. The Government was spending more than we were making.
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