Today we did more presenting on the New Deal Projects.Ch. 15 Test TopicsHow did the New Deal help:unemployed-RFC: created jobs for the unemployed people, it was dissolved in 1946 after WWII, Works Progress Administration provided almost 8 million jobs to unemployed men. Mainly Jobs like constructing roads and buildings. It also fed children. It gave some women jobs as well. Also hired people in the area of the arts like theater and literary arts. WPA also gave about 250,000 African Americans jobs. WPA ended because WWII came around and provided people with jobs making guns and things like that. Public Works Administration built things like bridges, hospitals, and schools. The goal was to provide employment and to help revive the economy. PWA ended and moved industry form the PWA towards war production starting the Federal Works Agency. Civil Works Administration was a subagency of FERA. CWA gave short term manual labor jobs to millions of unemployed citizens in America. The CWA greatly improved cities' roads and community schools. The reason the CWA ended because it got a lot of criticism from tax payers because it became too costly.farmers 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. The National Youth Administration was a part of the WPA and it provided part time jobs for high school students and college students. The NYA was very successful. The NYA ended because Congress stopped funding the organization.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
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