Thursday 3, 2011

First we started presentations

Describe the cycle of the Great Depression?

What was the New Deal(1st and 2nd) and it's goals(3 R's)?

Why did people criticize the New Deal?

Why was FDR upset with the US Supreme Court and what did he do to try to solve this issue?

How did the New Deal help:

unemployed
farmers
factory workers/labor
young people
banks/business
home owners
elderly
Native Americans

Describe the culture of the 1930's.

Key terms:

Hundred Days
fireside chats
priming the pump
deficit spending

 

 

 

Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment act of 1936

-payed famers to not overproduce crops

    settled some dust in the air

    and helped stop soil erosion

-ended Dust Bowl

 

Priming the Pump

-process of the government spending defecits during recessions to boost the economy

-Herbert Hoover was the first to use this to his advantage

-The government spend billions of dollars to try to stabilize the government

 

TVA

-Independant government oraganization lead by a board of directors

-created in 1933

-made to develope the Tennesse River System

-made for flood control

  National Defense

  To help make hydro-electric power

-created by FDR in May 18, 1934

 

Supream Court Packing Issues

-they invalidated the NIRA and in 1936 the AAA

-FDR thought the court would declare other important acts unconstitoinal

-for every justice over 70 FDR wanted to add a new justice in the court

-This wanst passed becuase people didnt want the president to have all the power

 

First and Second New Deal

The First new deal

-based on the three R's

-consisted of economic programs

-FDR knew america needed confidence and economic stability

-deals with bankers, realiroad, buisness industry, and farmers

Second New Deal

-called for different objectives that the first new deal

  improve use of resources, and others

-formed Social Security Act, and the Works Progress Act

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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