Monday- NO SCHOOL
Tuesday-
- How did the New Deal help?
- Unemployed people
- RFC- under hoover
- Civilian Conservation Corporation( CCC )
- Passed in 1933 during the "100 days"
- the CCC was limited to young men age 18 to 25 whose fathers were on relief
- CCC members worked 40 hours a week and were paid $30 a month with the requirement that $25 of the be sent home to family
- Members lived in camps, wore uniforms, and lived under military discipline
- The U.S. Army operated the camps
- Planted trees, fought forest fires, stopped soil erosion
- helped construct military bases during WWII
- funding stopped in 1942
- Slogan: "We can take it"
- Federal Emergency Relief Act( FERA )
- enacted in 1933
- FERA distributed more than 20 million dollars in direct aid to the unemployed
- this in turn would help the unemployed to find new jobs
- FERA had three primary objectives
- 1. direct relief measures
- 2. provide work for employable people
- 3. provide many different types of relief programs
- Public Works Administration ( PWA )
- established in 1933
- created as many jobs as possible in many different varieties
- great example of FDR's "priming the pump"
- between 1933 and 1939, the PWA funded the construction of more than 34,000 projects including airports, dams, aircraft carriers, bridges, etc.
- was responsible for 70% of the new schools and 33% of the hospitals built from 1933-1939
- Civil Works Administration
- established in 1933 to create jobs
- Works Progress Administration
- established in 1935
- largest and most comprehensive New Deal Agency
- the WPA was a "make work" program that provided jobs
- The WPA built 650000 miles of roads, 78000 bridges, 125000 buildings, and 7000 miles of airport runways
- It presented 225000 concerts and produced almost 475000 works of art
- federal
- Consisted of:
- Federal Art Project: FAP
- Federal Music Project: FMP
- Federal Theater Project: FTP
- Federal Writers' Project: FWP
- Historical Records Survey: HRS
- The NIRA also helped create jobs for unemployed workers (building schools)
- Unemployed people
- Young people
- Civilian Conservation Corporation( CCC )
- Passed in 1933 during the "100 days"
- the CCC was limited to young men age 18 to 25 whose fathers were on relief
- CCC members worked 40 hours a week and were paid $30 a month with the requirement that $25 of the be sent home to family
- Members lived in camps, wore uniforms, and lived under military discipline
- The U.S. Army operated the camps
- Planted trees, fought forest fires, stopped soil erosion
- helped construct military bases during WWII
- funding stopped in 1942
- Slogan: "We can take it"
- National Youth Administration(NYA)
- Established in 1935 and was a part of the WPA
- Pushed heavily by Eleanor Roosevelt(ER)
- Served 327,000 high school and college youth, who were paid $6 to $40 a month for "wrok sstudy" projects at their schools
- it allowed thousands of young people to stay in school
- another 155,000 boys and girls from relief families were paid $10 to $25 a month for part-time work that included training
- unlike the CCC it included women
- The Youth normally lived at home, and worked on construction or repair projects
- Civilian Conservation Corporation( CCC )
- Banks
- Young people
- 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
- Stock market
- Federal Securities Act (FSA)
- Passed in 1933
- Made the stock market a safe place for people to invest their money
- Two Goals
- 1. "required that investors receive significant information regarding securities being offered for public sale"
- 2. "Prohibited Deceit, misrepresentations, and other fraud in the sale of securities of the public."
- Securities and exchange Commission (SEC)
- Established in 1934 and is still around today
- This organization regulates the stock market
- Made the market more secure and safer for people's money
- National Industrial Recovery Act
- Established "codes of fair competition" aimed at supporting prices and wages and stimulating economic recovery from the Great Depression
- The Law created a National Recovery Administration (NRA) to enforce codes
- The administration tried to make voluntary agreements dealing with hours of work, rates of pay, and fixed of prices
- Businesses which voluntarily complaied could display the Blue Eagle
- The NIRA also helped create jobs for unemployed workers (building schools)
- Section 7A guaranteed workers the right to unionize
- Declared unconstitutional by Supreme Court (1935)
- National Labor relations Act/ Board (NLRA(B)
- Established in 1935
- Conducts elections for unions
- Stresses collective barganing
- Investigates and fixes unfair labor practices
- Governed by five-person board whose members are appointed by the President
- Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
- Established a national minimum wage - 40 cents/hour
- Established the 40 hour work week
- Guaranteed time and a half for over time in certain jobs
- Prohibited most child labor
- Still exists today
- Federal Securities Act (FSA)
- Factory workers
- National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
- Established codes of fair competition
- Aimed at supporting prices and wages and stimulating economic recovery from the Great Depression
- Created National Recovery Administration to enforce codes
- Tried to make voluntary agreements with business' dealing with hours of work, rates of play, and the fixing of prices
- Businesses which voluntarily complied could display the Blue Eagle
- Also helped create jobs (construction)
- Second 7a guarenteed the workers the right to unionize
- Declared unonstitutional by Supreme Court in 1935
- National Labor Relations Act/board (NLRA(B))
- 1935
- Strengthened labor unions
- Get better pay, wages, conditions
- Make sure that we do collective bargaining (go in as a group and bargain as a group)
- Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
- Established a national minimum wage- 40 cents/hour
- Established a 40 hour work week
- Guarenteed time and a half for overtime in certain jobs
- Prohibited most child labor
- Still Exists Today
- National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
- Farmers
- Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
- Established in 1933
- Restricted production by paying farmers to reduce the amount of crops planted
- Its purpose was to reduce crop surplus so prices would go up
- The farmers were paid by federal government
- The AAA over saw a large-scale destruction of existing crops and livestock in an attempt to reduce surpluses
- Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act
- Allowed the government to pay farmers to reduce productions
- Conserve soil
- Took immediate action to contain the dust bowl's effect by planting trees and native grass
- Three years after the Act was adopted, soil erosion had dropped 65%
- Allowed the government to pay farmers to reduce productions
- Tennessee Vally Authority (TVA)
- Built dams
- America's largest public power company
- Problem?
- Flooding every year
- Lots of rivers
- Dams were Built
- Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
- Created in 1935
- The REA provided farms with inexpensive electric lighting
- Farm Security Administration (FSA)
- Granted small farmers and tenant farmers money to purchase farms
- The Dust Bowl forced a lot of farmers off their farms
- Many farmers bought tractors with money for the AAA thus forcing tenant farmers off the land
- The FSA provided relief to many people
- Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
- Elderly
- Consumers
- Native Americans
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