- relief, helping people. recover, temporary programs set up, recovering from great depression. reform, permanent programs set up.
Why did people criticize the New Deal?
- charles edward caughlin; broadcast on raido each week. against jewish leaders, insitutions and FDR. WHY? at first supported it, then slowly began to go against and used the radio to talk about it. he created.. NUSJ was made to support worker rights, guaruntee work and income to people. believed FDR wasnt making enough effort to support the workers.
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, gave people construction jobs to get some money in their pockets. The PWA was kind of sucessful because it gave people jobs but it cost about $4 million dollars.
- CWA created 11/8/1933. Created about 4 million temporary construction jobs becaus the program only lasted about six months, and it spent over one billion dollars so
many thought it was a bad organization. - RFC, the businesses could expand and it would create more jobs.
- USHA, look at home owners.
- CCC, corps helped get jobs for young adults. temporary.
- WPA; help unemployed. supplied jobs, building highways up keeping towns, reforestation, slum clearance. people came more independent, lot
of people didnt need help anymore. built 681,000 miles of highway.
farmers-
- Soil conservation; control soil erosion, flooding and prevent destruction of reservoirs. gave financial and teachnical support to farmers. farmers didnt like because gov't could take full control of their farms. decrease the overproduction. paid farmers to produce less crops that they had more of.
factory workers/labor-
- wegner; est min wage and max work hours. est labor relations board.brought out workers voices. determined if the workers were being treated fairly. better training & standard
procedures for different work areas. in personal business, workers
liked at beginning. not mainly liked the act. wanted to appeal or amend
act. still around,
young people-
- NYA, operated from 1935 to 1943. It was under the Workers Progress Administration. Provided young people with jobs, mainly high schoolers with smaller renovation jobs during or after school. It
included girls and boys. There was more than just the renovation jobs,
and it allowed kids to go to school and work. Some people didn't like
it just because taxes were being taken to pay kids to work. But it was
sucessful because it gave kids jobs and let them stay in school.
banks/business/stock market-
- RFC;gave banks, railroads, farm associations, and other businesses loans. Gave $2 billion to aid the state and local governments. Started in 1932 by Hoover. With the money
the businesses could get more money then the workers would get more
money because they could create more stores then there'd be more jobs.
The RFC isn't around today, and it was sucessful because it did what it
was aimed to do. It's kind of like a bail out because it handled the
Great Depression to bring up people again. - FSA; regulate sale security, before only regulated by state laws, prohibited fraud with companies trying to false advertise. still around but has been approved. successful.
- FDIC; provide insurance for banks up to 100,000 dollars per account. maintain financial security. big bank which gives insurance to banks. promote confidence in the bank. bank doing something unlawful,
privelege taken away. - emergency banking relief act; close down banks that are pennyless and reorganized banks strong enough to survive. nationwide bank holiday declared. closed down for a little bit to prevent from closing for good.
- banking act of 33. introduced banking reforms which were designed to control speculation. stop deflation. allowed federal reserve to regulate interest rates in savings accounts. seperated commercialbanking and investment banking.
home owners-
- USHA,lending money to states and communities for low construction costs. There were about 650,000 low-cost people that needed jobs. It gave jobs to poor/ homeless to get them money and to
build low costing housing for poor people. - PWA also helped with building 22,000 new housing units.
- FHA; mortages were short term, banks needed to get their money back so many homes were foreclosed. banks lost money, planned to control interest rates. wanted to help people pay down payments which led to people buying more homes. worked with banks to lend more money and to lower harsh terms. self funded. still around today
elderly-
- SSA, tax taken out of your income it covers old people, survivors, and disabled. it was created on August 14, 1935. It's still around today, the baby boomers are retiring now and there may not be
enough money.
Native Americans-
- IRA; help indians that were living in slums of america. gave up land and set it aside for indians for reservations. reinstated dawes act. assigned land to individual tribes. 138 to 48
million acres. (wheeler-howard act) started in 1934, grew away from it.
natives couldnt withstand being put on reservations. not what white
folk thought would happen.
Describe the culture of the 1930's.
- MUSIC; country, hillbilly music. 'this land is your land' woody guthrie. huddie ledbetter, 12 string. swing dancing became more popular. jitterbug. combos. big band jazz. duke ellington. countbassie. woodie herman. glen miller. luis armstrong. pop. the andrew'ssisters, gene autry. roy rogers, shirly temple, billie holiday.
- MOVIES; black and white, no sound. sound in 1928. color in 1918.
Key terms:
Hundred Days-
fireside chats-
- Informal monthly addresses that FDR gave from the start of his term until the end of his term. It was usually about good news. The purpose was to have America listen at a time when they didn't know
where to turn. He was the first President to use the radio. These were
good because it gave people hope about the economy.
priming the pump-
deficit spending-
when more money is spent then gov't recieves in revenue. gov't spends more money then they have
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