What was the New Deal(1st and 2nd) and it's goals(3 R's)?
**1st--
**2nd--
**3 R's--relief(stop the panic), recovery(get out of the economic slump), reform(keep it from happening again)
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(consruction projects--roads, bridges, dams, subways, public facilities, housing), CWA(more construction for temporary jobs, ineffetient bc large budget and only lasted 5 months), RFC, NYA, CCC(young adults, all states and some territories, one of the most popular, 18-25 year old men, stopped when funds went to the war, SCA founded in 1957--almost the same thing) WPA(4.8 million, building highways, keeping up towns, reforestation, slum clearence, rural rehabilitation, lotta stuff constucted/fixed, lasted 8 years, consturtion created jobs, finished buildings also formed jobs, 1939 changed to Federal Works Agency, terminated bc of war and lack of funds)
**farmers--
**factory workers/labor--NLRA(Wagner Act, established min wage, max work hours, NLRB determined if workers treated fairly, workers liked, not favored by many, still around today)
**young people--NYA(granted youth money to study and work at the same time, kept the unemployment pool down, future job training, 2.5 million students enrolled and went on to jobs), CCC
**banks/business/stock market--RFC(made loans to businesses, started during the Herbert Hoover administration, FDR continued it), FSA(regulated stocks, kept people from frauding), FDIC(provide insurence for banks, $100,000 per acount,
**home owners--USHA(lent money to build homes/apartments, provided jobs, lead to PWA)
**elderly--SSA(insruance program, tax taken out of income, survivors, old age, disabled, still around)
**Native Americans--IRA(gave up land for reservations, assigned land to tribes, Wheeler-Howard Act, some rejected the act, nulled the Dawes Act, grew away from it, NA's still run their own lands/governments, often times were put on a reservation with enemies, couldnt keep government under control, no better conditions)
Describe the culture of the 1930's.
Key terms:
**Hundred Days
**fireside chats--informal adresses given by Roosevelt, meant to be good news, people listening pry by the fire, **purpose was to get people to listen when thye had no where else to turn, first pres to use the radio, many listeners, urged people to have faith, continued until the end of his term bc they were successful
**priming the pump
**deficit spending--spend more than you make
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