Today in class we presented our projects again. The questions are directly below and there is a summary of each below that.Test QuestionsWhat was the New Deal(1st and 2nd) and its goals(3 R's)?Why did people criticize the New Deal?Why was FDR upset with the US Supreme Court was and what did he do to try to solve this issue?How did the New Deal help:unemployed-PWA help to create new jobs in the construction industry. Civil Works administration also did this. RFC loans helped to make more jobs. USHA gave jobs for unemployed to build homes. NYA gave young people jobs. WPA gave jobs to people to “build” more jobs.Farmers- RFC loans helped to make more jobs.Factory workers/labor-NLRA set up minimum wages.Young people- NYA gave them jobs. CCC helped to give them life skills and simple jobs.Banks/business/stock market-RFC gave loans to banks to help keep banks running by using the Trickle Down Theory.Home owners- USHA gave jobs for unemployed to build homes.Elderly- The Social Security Administration helped for retirement.Native Americans-IRA got rid of the Dawes Act by giving them reservations to live on and have their schools and government.Describe the culture of the 1930's.Key terms:Hundred Days-Fireside chats- informal monthly announcements that FDR gave through the radio to bring some good news to the people and so they knew where to go.Priming the pump-Deficit spending-҉Public Works Administration- It built construction projects to help the poor and unemployed which helped a lot of people and it is still around today.҉FDR was a democrat. He spent most of his young life by Hyde Park, he was homeschooled and he was hyperactive. He went to Harvard and was the editor of their paper. He married Eleanor Roosevelt his fifth cousin.҉Civil Works Administration- created jobs in construction for unemployed. It was way over budgeted and it shut down 5 months later.҉Social Security Act is a tax taken out of your income. Started on 1936 and covers people who are old or disabled and helps for retirement. It’s still around today.҉Reconstruction Finance Corporation helped banks and businesses by giving loans to them. They gave 2 billion in aid to the state and local governments.҉United States Housing Authority helped build houses for low income families. It gave 600,000 jobs to poor people to build houses for people who couldn’t afford homes.҉National Youth Administration helped unemployed and young people. It gave young people money to stay in school and to get jobs for high school students. It allowed them to work to help their family and still stay in school. It ended in 1935.҉The National Labor Relations Act, Wagner Act, established a minimum wage and determined if workers were being treated fairly. Set training procedures for work areas and went anti lassez fair. People liked it but later on they didn’t like it so much but it does function today. It didn’t cover the workers that were covered under different acts.҉The Civilian Conservation Corps get young people job and life skills that they needed such as how to run some equipment and other things. However it didn’t survive but people did like it. 18-25 year old men were the only ones accepted. The men made 30 dollars a month and kept 5 but they got room, clothing, and food.҉IRA was set up to help Indians to find better homes by giving up land and moved them onto reservations. Replaced the Dawes Act by assigning them land and many denied it because they were tired of people telling them what to do and how to live, Americanize them. They would be able to set up their own governments. Sometimes they would be stuck with their enemies and they wouldn’t live peacefully.҉WPA gave Harry Hopkins, the head, 4.8 billion dollars to get jobs for the unemployed. They were given jobs to build infrastructure which also created more jobs. It ended with the beginning of the war.
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