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What was the New Deal(1st and 2nd) and it's goals(3 R's)?
**1st--
**2nd--
**3 R's--relief(stop the panic), recovery(get out of the economic slump), reform(keep it from happening again)
Why did people criticize the New Deal?
**Charles Edward Caughlin--catholic priest in Michigan, against Roosevelt, at first supported New Deal, believed Roosevelt needed to do more to help people get jobs
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--PWA(consruction projects--roads, bridges, dams, subways, public facilities, housing), CWA(more construction for temporary jobs, ineffetient bc large budget and only lasted 5 months), RFC, NYA, CCC(young adults, all states and some territories, one of the most popular, 18-25 year old men, stopped when funds went to the war, SCA founded in 1957--almost the same thing) WPA(4.8 million, building highways, keeping up towns, reforestation, slum clearence, rural rehabilitation, lotta stuff constucted/fixed, lasted 8 years, consturtion created jobs, finished buildings also formed jobs, 1939 changed to Federal Works Agency, terminated bc of war and lack of funds)
**farmers--soil conservation act(control soil erosion and overproduction of crops, attempt to control flooding, now called something else, gave financial support, farmers feared government take over, paid farmers to produce less crops that were in abundance)
**factory workers/labor--NLRA(Wagner Act, established min wage, max work hours, NLRB determined if workers treated fairly, workers liked, not favored by many, still around today)
**young people--NYA(granted youth money to study and work at the same time, kept the unemployment pool down, future job training, 2.5 million students enrolled and went on to jobs), CCC
**banks/business/stock market--RFC(made loans to businesses, started during the Herbert Hoover administration, FDR continued it), FSA(regulated stocks, kept people from frauding), FDIC(provide insurence for banks, $100,000 per acount), EBRA(emergency banking relief act, closed banks that were penniless temporarily, gave money to stay open, put peoples faith back in the banking system), Banking act of 1933(estabished FDIC, indroduced banking reforms, allowed federal reserve to regulate intrest rates, still around)
**home owners--USHA(lent money to build homes/apartments, provided jobs, lead to PWA), FHA(federal housing administration, still around, mortgages were short term, banks needed money back so homes were foreclosed, still lost money, control intrest rates on mortgages, helped people afford the down payment on houses and mortgages, convinced banks to lend more and to lower harsh terms, helped minorities get mortgages, built apartments for elderly and disabled, only government that is completely self funded)
**elderly--SSA(insruance program, tax taken out of income, survivors, old age, disabled, still around)
**Native Americans--IRA(gave up land for reservations, assigned land to tribes, Wheeler-Howard Act, some rejected the act, nulled the Dawes Act, grew away from it, NA's still run their own lands/governments, often times were put on a reservation with enemies, couldnt keep government under control, no better conditions)
Describe the culture of the 1930's.
**Music--great period for music, country music: Woody Guthrie and Huddie Ledbetter(african american), Jazz, swing and big bands: swing became popular, combo jazz played for listening, legends: duke ellingtoncount rasie..........., pop: andrew sisters, gene autry, roy rogers, shirley temple.........
**Movies--sound intorduced in 1928, color in 1918 but not recogized until later, went to movies to get away, offered hope for the future, soem offered free movies on Thursday nights, projected on a building in the downtown, sound unreliable at first, considered the golden age, expaning genres,
Key terms:
**Hundred Days
**fireside chats--informal adresses given by Roosevelt, meant to be good news, people listening pry by the fire,
**purpose was to get people to listen when thye had no where else to turn, first pres to use the radio, many listeners, urged people to have faith, continued until the end of his term bc they were successful
**priming the pump
**deficit spending--spend more money than the government takes in as revenue
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