The first thing we did was start presentations.
SEC
-watches over stock market by keeping peoples money safe
-Security Exchange Commision
-formed by Security Exchange act of 1933
-Analyzes federal securities laws
-broken down into 5 divisions
-still going today
-successful
REA
-Rural Electrification Administration
-brings electricity to farms
-in 1935 the REA set up electricity and got it to rural area
Critics of the New Deal
-Huey Long was a big critic of FDR saying the new deal was based too much on big buisness
talked about the Share to wealth plan. takes money from the rich and give to the poor
-Charles Coughlin claimed that FDR was a dictator
spoke on the radio
-Francis Townsend, got involved in polotics in 1933
had over 5 million fallowers
-Unemployment didnt drop as fast
-put the US in massive debt
CCC
-Civiliean Conservation Corps
-ON April 5, 1933 FDR issued Executive order which formed CCC
FSA
Farmers Security Administration
-encouraged famers to plant less to raise crop prices
-helped tennant farmers purchase farms
-wanted to make farmers more effecient
-believed that tennant famers should be moved to cities for "better opprotunities"
-tennant farmers rent a plot of land from a land lord
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