Today we continued presentations on the New Deal Project again.Ch. 15 Test TopicsDescribe the cycle of the Great Depression? Vicious CycleWhat was the New Deal(1st and 2nd) and it's goals(3 R's)? Relieft for people who needed help, reform economic banking systems, recover from great depression. Relief, Reform, Recovery.1st New Deal- 1933-1934. Focus on: top down (help businesses and banks survive)2nd New Deal- Focus on: bottom up (help individual people so people spend more money)Why did people criticize the New Deal? Some people said that Roosevelt didn't do enough to help Americans, others said that he did too much to help Americans. In tough times people turn to radical governments like Nazism. Violation of checks and balances. Radical departure from Laissez Faire. Some acts were unconstitutional. Heavy debt burden. Father Charles Caughlin and Francis Townshend didn't like President Roosevelt. The man who dislike Roosevelt was Senator Huey Long, who was like a "Robin Hood" taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor.Why was FDR upset with the US Supreme Court and what did he do to try to solve this issue? FDR was challenging 6 of the 9 Supreme Court Justices that had challenged his domestic programs. He was upset because the older people were voting against his bills and he wanted younger justices so that they might argue in his favor. Congress did not pass the Supreme Court Packing Bill.How did the New Deal help:unemployed-RFC: created jobs for the unemployed people, it was dissolved in 1946 after WWIIfarmers FERA: gave loans to states and employed people to work for the government. The FERA ended in 1935. The kind of jobs it did was construction and production of goods. Women got jobs like cleaning up parks and museums. It gave people jobs, both men and women.factory workers/laboryoung people- Civilian Conservation Corps was a work relief program that provided men with jobs. This was the most popular New Deal Program. The CCC lasted over 9.5 Years. The CCC did lots of things ranging from wildlife to transportation to structural improvments. Men were not married and were unemployed. They got $30 per month and $22-25 of it went to their parents.banks/business-RFC: gave loans to banks, state and local gov, gave states loans for emergency relief needs, started under Hoover, not as successful as Hoover had hoped.home ownerselderlyNative Americans- Indian Reorganization Act was passed in June of 1934. aka the Indian New Deal. It gave Native Americans their land back and decreased in reservation resources. Indians were forced onto reservations with little food and water. Indians got to lead their own type of government. This act terminated the Dawes Act.Describe the culture of the 1930's.Key terms:Hundred Days- promised to get a lot of stuff done in the first 100 days, 15 major bills were passed.fireside chats- Radio address made by the president, people listened in every Saturday, calmed people's nerves.priming the pump- deficit spending; dates back to the well. got the economy going again.deficit spending- spending more than you take in.
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