friday february fifth

What was the New Deal(1st and 2nd) and it's goals(3 R's)?

relief, helping people. recover, temporary programs set up, recovering from great depression. reform, permanent programs set up.

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-

PWA, gave people construction jobs to get some money in their pockets. The PWA was kind of sucessful because it gave people jobs but it cost about $4 million dollars.
CWA created 11/8/1933. Created about 4 million temporary construction jobs becaus the program only lasted about six months, and it spent over one billion dollars somany thought it was a bad organization.
RFC, the businesses could expand and it would create more jobs.
USHA, look at home owners.
CCC, corps helped get jobs for young adults. temporary.
WPA; help unemployed. supplied jobs, building highways up keeping towns, reforestation, slum clearance. people came more independent, lotof people didnt need help anymore. built 681,000 miles of highway.

farmers-

factory workers/labor-

wegner; est min wage and max work hours. est labor relations board.brought out workers voices. determined if the workers were being treated fairly. better training & standardprocedures for different work areas. in personal business, workersliked at beginning. not mainly liked the act. wanted to appeal or amendact. still around,

young people-

NYA, operated from 1935 to 1943. It was under the Workers Progress Administration. Provided young people with jobs, mainly high schoolers with smaller renovation jobs during or after school. Itincluded girls and boys. There was more than just the renovation jobs,and it allowed kids to go to school and work. Some people didn't likeit just because taxes were being taken to pay kids to work. But it wassucessful because it gave kids jobs and let them stay in school.

banks/business/stock market-

RFC;gave banks, railroads, farm associations, and other businesses loans. Gave $2 billion to aid the state and local governments. Started in 1932 by Hoover. With the moneythe businesses could get more money then the workers would get moremoney because they could create more stores then there'd be more jobs.The RFC isn't around today, and it was sucessful because it did what itwas aimed to do. It's kind of like a bail out because it handled theGreat Depression to bring up people again.
FSA; regulate sale security, before only regulated by state laws, prohibited fraud with companies trying to false advertise. still around but has been approved. successful.
FDIC; provide insurance for banks up to 100,000 dollars per account. maintain financial security. big bank which gives insurance to banks. promote confidence in the bank. bank doing something unlawful, privelege taken away.

home owners-

USHA,lending money to states and communities for low construction costs. There were about 650,000 low-cost people that needed jobs. It gave jobs to poor/ homeless to get them money and tobuild low costing housing for poor people.
PWA also helped with building 22,000 new housing units.

elderly-

SSA, tax taken out of your income it covers old people, survivors, and disabled. it was created on August 14, 1935. It's still around today, the baby boomers are retiring now and there may not beenough money.

Native Americans-

IRA; help indians that were living in slums of america. gave up land and set it aside for indians for reservations. reinstated dawes act. assigned land to individual tribes. 138 to 48million acres. (wheeler-howard act) started in 1934, grew away from it.natives couldnt withstand being put on reservations. not what whitefolk thought would happen.

Describe the culture of the 1930's.

Key terms:

Hundred Days-

fireside chats-

Informal monthly addresses that FDR gave from the start of his term until the end of his term. It was usually about good news. The purpose was to have America listen at a time when they didn't knowwhere to turn. He was the first President to use the radio. These weregood because it gave people hope about the economy.

priming the pump-

deficit spending-

Blogs