Today we worked on our New Deal Project Powerpoints.
My topics are:
-Rural Electrification Administration(REA)
-Farm Security Administration(FSA)
Sources to Use:
REA: http://www.newdeal20.org/2011/02/25/rural-electrification-administr...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Utilities_Service
FSA: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/F/FA015.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farm_Security_Administration
REA
-created by Roosevelt Administration in 1935
-it's purpose was to bring electricity to rural areas
-today it is called the Rural Utilities Service
FSA
-created in 1937 as a subagency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
-In August 1946 the Farmers Home Administration replaced the FSA.
was not a relief agency, it provided loans to those who could not obtain credit elsewhere.
-Initially created as the Resettlement Administration (RA) in 1935
The FSA is famous for its small but highly influential photography program, 1935–44, that portrayed the challenges of rural poverty.
-The program failed because the farmers wanted ownership; after the Conservative coalition took control of Congress it transformed the FSA into a program to help poor farmers buy land, and continues in operation in the 21st century as the Farmers Home Administration.
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