Monday - Snow Day!!!!
Tuesday - New cycle for Forum post. Test will probably be Thursday & Friday. We took notes.
- FDR's New Deal Programs
- Relief for the needy
- Economic recovery
- Financial reform
- Unemployed people
- Federal Emergency Relief Act
- gave direct handouts
- helped unemployed to find new jobs
- relief programs
- Public Works Administration
- gave work
- construction projects
- airports
- dams
- aircraft carriers
- bridges
- hospitals
- Civil Works Administrations
- create jobs
- paid high wages
- Works Progress Administration
- construction work
- built
- roads
- bridges
- buildings
- airport runways
- produced
- concerts
- art
- Federal Emergency Relief Act
- Young People
- Civilian Conservation Corps
- gave jobs
- $30/month
- lived in camps
- men 18-25 (father's are on relief)
- work
- plant trees
- fought forest fire
- construction
- National Youth Administration
- $6-$40 a month for "work study" projects
- thousands of young people stayed in school
- included women
- people lived at home
- Work
- job training
- construction
- repair projects
- Civilian Conservation Corps
- Banks
- Emergency Banking Relief Act
- would close bank
- reorganize it
- reopen bank when stable
- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
- insured peoples money in banks up to $1000
- insured money in checking accounts, money market accounts, and CD's
- Emergency Banking Relief Act
- Stock Market
- Federal Securities Act
- made stock market a safer place for people to invest money
- two goals
- required investors receive significant information regarding securities being offered for public sale
- prohibited deceit, misrepresentations, and other fraud in the sale of securities to the public
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- regulates the stock market
- made market more secure and safer for money
- Federal Securities Act
- Factory Workers
- National Industrial Recovery Act
- codes of fair competition
- supporting prices and wages
- stimulating economy
- make work hours
- guaranteed workers the right to unionize
- codes of fair competition
- National Labor Relation Act/Board
- conducts elections for unions
- stresses collective bargaining
- investigates and fixes unfair labor practices
- Fair Labor Standards Act
- established national minimum wage ($0.40/hour)
- established 40 hr work week
- time and a half for overtime
- prohibited most child labor
- National Industrial Recovery Act
- Farmers
- Agricultural Adjustment Act
- paid to plant less
- paid to kill animals
- gave money to buy tractors
- Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act
- educated farmers on how to use their lands without damaging them
- Tennessee Valley Authority
- built water dams
- generates electric power and controls floods
- Rural Electrification Administration
- provided farms with inexpensive electric lighting and power and eventually telephone services
- Farm Security Administration
- gave money to small farmers and tenant farmers to buy farms
- helped tenant farmers when they were fired
- Agricultural Adjustment Act
- Homeowners
- Home Owners Loan Corporation
- refinance homes to prevent foreclosure
- extend loans from shorter expensive payments to lower payments for longer times
- Federal Housing Administration
- insured loans made by banks and private lenders for home building and home buying
- goals
- improve housing standards
- improve conditions
- provide adequate home financing system
- United States Housing Authority
- lend money to states or communities for low-cost home construction
- homes were designed for low-income and homeless people
- Home Owners Loan Corporation
- Elderly Consumers
- Social Security Administration
- provides retirement, disability, and survivors benefits
- benefits are based on employees contributions
- Food, Drug, ad Cosmetic Act
- mandated a review of the safety of all new drugs before going to market
- banned false therapeutic claims in drug labeling
- authorized factory inspections and expanded enforcement powers
- set new regulatory standards for foods and cosmetics
- Social Security Administration
- Native Americans
- Indian Reorganization Act
- abolished the Dawes Act
- allowed Native American's to govern themselves on a tribal basis
- allowed Natives to manage and keep their own land
- helped create job opportunities on Indian Reservations
- casinos
- Indian Reorganization Act
Wednesday - Took notes and test was pushed back to Friday and Monday.
Thursday - The test is tomorrow and I continued notes above.
Friday - Test today.
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