Assigned blog 2 - choose any topic from chapter 15
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Ch. 15 Test Topics
Describe the cycle of the Great Depression?
- Civilian Conservation Corps
- the CCC was also known as the Emergency Conservation Work Act
- operated from 1933 to 1942
- provided jobs for men in relief families (age 18-25)
- 2.5 million men enrolled in just 9 years
- pay for working was $30 a month
- led greater public awareness and greater appreciation for the outdoors
- planted about 300,000 trees
- made other programs for veterans and Native Americans
- by 1942 with the draft in operation it was voted to close the program because things were back on their feet
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation
- was establish during the Hoover administration
- during the first 13 months only worked on giving loans to banks
- expanded Roosevelt's New Deal
- was an independent agency
- modeled after the war finance corporation
- gave $2 billion to state and local gov'ts
- played a really big role in the Great Depression
- Federal Emergency Relief Act
- enacted in 1933
- main function was to create the Federal Emergency Relief Administration
- FERA distributed more than 20 million dollars in direct aid to the unemployed (wellfare)
- this in turn would help the unemployed to find new jobs.
- FERA had 3 primary objectives:
- direct relief measure
- provide work for employable people
- provide many different types of relief programs
- was the start of the welfare system
- direct relief for people
What was the New Deal(1st and 2nd) and it's goals(3 R's)?
- goals of the 3 R's
- Relief
- they were trying to RELIEVE the unemployed, poor, homeless, and all in all vulnerable people.
- Recovery
- attempting to RECOVER our economy in order to get it back to normal. Went from breadlines to fast food places
- Reform
- trying to REFORM the financial system in order to prevent any oncoming depressions
- 1st New Deal
- passed in 1933
- lasted until 1934
- worked at fixing the economy from top to bottom(help businesses first)
- mostly based off the trickle down theory. this is where the gov't pours money into businesses in order to stabilize buying and selling, and go forward to help our economy
- it helped from banks to farms and many more
- 2nd New Deal
- in effect from 1934-1936
- focused on restoring our economy from bottom to top(help individual people. give em SS)
- this meant that they tried to turn non-consumer to consumer again- in order to help the businesses and when the businesses succeed, so does the gov't
- Why did people criticize the New Deal?
- top three critics:
- Charles Coughlin
- Charles Coughlin
- roman preist
- supported the new deal and soon turned against FDR
- Dr. Francis Townsend
- Physician and health officer in long Beach cali.
- Believed FDR was not doing enough to help the poor and elderly
- made a plan to benitit the elderly
- Huey Long
- senator of louisiana
- supported of the new deal
- alos turned against FDR
- was eager to win presidency for himself
- They cared about things that mattered to the poo
- Charles Coughlin
- Why was FDR upset with the US Supreme Court and what did he do to try to solve this issue?
- the US Supreme Court wasn't agreeing with his New Deal plan. he was upset by it
- why was he upset?
- he felt like it was keeping the economy back and not helping it become better
- congress wouldn't allow the number of justices to be increased.
- he thought they should hire one new justice for every justice person that was over 70. would've went from 9 to 15
- FDR was criticized for trying to undermine the independence of the court
- thought he was trying to have more power then he should have
How did the New Deal help:
unemployed
farmers
factory workers/labor
young people
banks/business
home owners
elderly
Native Americans- the Indian Reorganization Act(IDA) allowed them to use their culture and tradition
- Describe the culture of the 1930's(not in test)
- folk music, musical music, pop, jazz, country and western music
- Fashion(men)
- suits to create large torso
- shoulder pads
- matching top hates
- over coats
Key terms:
- Hundred Days
- the time where the president's seem to be the most efficient. FDR blew the roof on this.
- hundred days of the new deal
- fireside chats
- FDR broadcasting on the radio telling people to have faith and believe in the new deal and that banks would do better
- became popular-people started listening to the radio more. so radio stations did better
- continued til 1940's until their attention turned to WWII
- priming the pump
- pump from a well, nothing would come out
- great depression related.
- try to help things move along and see if it would help or not...
- jump start the economy
- deficit spending
- gov't spending more and owing more than they collected in taxes
- they kept spending more money, and then they'd owe another country money
- they thought deficit spending would get us out of the depression (kinda like priming the pump)
- Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) -
- gave land back to the tribes so they could run their own land again
- allowed Native Americans to use their tribes
- it allowed Indians to use their culture and tradition.
- replaced the Dawes Act (tried to Americanize the Native Americans)
- was established in 1934
- another name for this act is the Wheeler-Howard Act
- established June 18, 1934
- leader was John Collier
- the act was doing more harm that good to the natives(it was too little too late)
- in 1936 was when Alaska tribes were added to the act
- FDR's Background
- FDR before presidency
- born Jan 30, 1882.
- went to high school at Groton Boarding School
- Went to Harvard College
- Was married to his wife ELeanor on March 17, 1905, had 6 kids
- other professions
- was 44th governor of NY from 1929 - 1932
- ran for vice president in 1920
- was 32nd president. Democratic. Won 57% of the vote
- was in office from March 14, 1933 to April 12, 1945
- was in office during the Great Depression
- our only president to have polio and to be in a wheelchair
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