Monday- Discussed New Deal
Tuesday- Discussed New Deal
Wednesday-Discussed New Deal
Thursday-Discussed New Deal and Prepared for Tests Reply on some of your FORUM POSTSSSSSSS
Friday-
New Deal
What did it do for...
- Unemployed people
- Civilian Conservation Group
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation(trickle down in action)
- Gave loan to banks
- Gave states loans
- Federal Emergency Relief Act(FERA)
- Distributed 20 million dollars in direct aid to the unemployed(Welfare)
- Provided many different types of jobs not just construction jobs
- Public Works Administration(PWA)
- Created many jobs in many different varieties
- Mostly all construction jobs
- Dams
- airports
- bridges
- Schools
- Hospitals
- Mostly all construction jobs
- Created many jobs in many different varieties
- Civil Works Administration(CWA)
- Created construction jobs
- Overspent and was cancelled
- Works Progress Administration(WPA)
- Created construction jobs with unskilled workers
- Helped Artists and musicians get job
- Tennessee Valley Authority(TVA)
- Building of a lot of dams
- generated electricity to sell
- controlled flooding
- Building in Tennessee's general area
- Building of a lot of dams
- Young People
- Civilian Conservation Groups
- CCC members worked 40 hours a week and were paid 30$ a a month, but 25 had to go back to their family.
- They got food/water
- Lived under "military control"
- What they did
- Planted Trees
- fought forest fires
- Built military bases
- CCC members worked 40 hours a week and were paid 30$ a a month, but 25 had to go back to their family.
- National Youth Administration(NYA)
- Pushed by Eleanor Roosevelt
- Made jobs where students could stay in school, and work
- Jobs for boys and girls
- Live at home
- Part time work
- Kids were paid to learn jobs and skills
- Civilian Conservation Groups
- Banks
- Emergency Banking Relief Act(EBRA)
- Bank Holiday
- Close the banks down temporarily and fix them, and then reopen them when they are stable.
- Bank Holiday
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation(FDIC)
- Insured peoples money in the bank
- Ensures checking and savings account money
- Emergency Banking Relief Act(EBRA)
- Stock Market
- Federal Securities Act(FSA)
- Made stock market safer for peoples money
- Two Goals
- Required Investors to be given truthful information about the company
- Prohibited deceit- companies couldn't misinterpret their stocks and make stocks worth more than they were.
- Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC)
- Enforced the rules made by the FSA
- Regulated the Stock Market
- Federal Securities Act(FSA)
- Factory Workers
- National Industrial Recovery Act(NIRA)
- Established codes of fair competition
- Give workers good hours
- Give workers fair wages
- Have prices for product at a good cost
- Voluntary not forced
- Established codes of fair competition
- National Labor Relations act/board(NLR)
- Conduct elections for unions
- Push for collective bargaining
- Whole group goes in to better all workers
- Fix unfair labor practices
- Fair Labor Standards Act(FLSA)
- Established first national Minimum Wage
- Established 40 hour work week
- Guaranteed more money for overtime
- National Industrial Recovery Act(NIRA)
- Farmers
- Agricultural Adjustment Act(AAA)
- Paid farmers to plant less
- Increased crop prices
- Destroyed crops and livestock by killing and burning
- Declared Unconstitutional by the supreme court
- Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act(SCDA)
- Worked on preserving land by
- Planting trees
- cover crops
- Educated Farmers on how to take care of their land
- Worked on preserving land by
- Rural Electrification Administration(REA)
- Brought electricity to rural areas
- Provided jobs
- Farm Security Administration(FSA)
- Provided relief to small farmers by helping them purchase their farms
- Many people purchased machinery with the money
- Farmers then got rid of their farm hands
- Provided relief to small farmers by helping them purchase their farms
- Agricultural Adjustment Act(AAA)
- Homeowners
- Home Owner's Loan Corporation(HOLC)
- People had to pay 50% down
- People had 5-7 years to pay back
- HOLC stretched years to pay back to like 15 years
- Made so people had to put less % down
- Federal Housing Administration(FHA)
- Help build homes that are affordable for lower class citizens
- Makes paying banks back easier
- United States Housing Authority(USHA)
- Build affordable homes for lower class citizens
- Home Owner's Loan Corporation(HOLC)
- Elderly
- Social Security Administration(SSA)
- Provides the following benefits
- Retirement
- Disability
- Survivor benefit
- Money taken from worker to "force retirement"
- Provides the following benefits
- Social Security Administration(SSA)
- Consumers
- NIRA
- blue eagle codes
- Food, Drug, Cosmetic Act(FFDCA)
- Set new regulatory standards for foods and cosmetics
- Made sure food is safe to consume and encounter
- NIRA
- Native Americans
- Indian Reorganization Act(IRA)
- Allowed Indians to return to the way they could leave
- Indian Reorganization Act(IRA)
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