Question 3: What did the US government do to help alleviate the problems the Great Depression brought to our country? (FDR)
FDR Background
- Was the 32nd president
- FDR led the US from isolationism to victory over Nazi German and its allies in WW2
- Roosevelt dies in office in April 1945
- Born in NY into one of the old Dutch families which had settled in America in the seventeenth century
- Born on March 4, 1933- April 12 1945
New Deals:
- first 100 days
- Economic programs
- 3 R's= Relief for the unemployed and poor, Recovery of the economy to normal levels, and Reform of the financial system to prevent a repeat depression
- New Deal #1- Focused on the Economic System, and help banks get back on track
- New Deal #2- Focused on social justice, and helped individual people more so than the first deal
AAA(Agricultural Adjustment Act):
- Enacted in 1933
- This act protected farmers from price drops by providing crop subsides to reduce production, educational programs to teach methods of preventing
- payed them not to plant part of their land and kill off excess livestock
- Help overproduction of crops
Civil Works Administration:
- Privided public works jobs at $15/ week to four million workers in 1934
- the jobs were merely temporary, for the duration of the hard winter
- The CWA was a project created under the federal emergency relief admistration
- The CWA created construction jobs, mainly improving or construction buildings and cridges
- it ended on March 13, 1934 under the advice of Lew Douglas, after costing $200 million a month and hired 4 million people
Social Security Act:
- aided the blind, deaf, disabled, and dependent children
- designed to help elderly people during the Great Depression
- Saved the lives of people
- serves as how you get money when you retire
Federal Emergency Relief Act:
- Enacted in May 1933 and headed by Harry Hopkins
- Provided workd for over 20 million people
- gave grants and loans to states to operate relief programs
- Helped distribute millions of dollars of direct aid to unemployed workers
- Provided work relief projects to may
- Later in 1935 it was terminated and taken over by two entirely new federal agencies
- works progress administration
- social Security administration
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