That stupid little groundhog saw his freaking shadow and now we have six more weeks of this miserable winter. As the title of the blog says, it is Tuesday and the second day of February already. We are now presenting our New Deal Projects. Here are the test questions below and the answers to them.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- PWA- Created new jobs, especially construction jobs like building schools, dams, roads, bridges, hospitals, courthouses, and much more.Civil Works Administration- Created November 8, 1933. Under control of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration.Cost over $200 million a month to pay for all of the supplies and workers. The budget was only $400 million, and the CWA had to be disbanded after spending over a billion dollars in a five month period. Many politicians greatly criticized and opposed the CWAfarmersfactory workers/laboryoung peoplebanks/businesshome ownerselderly- Social Security Administration- Created by Roosevelt on August 14, 1935. It is a tax taken out on your income that goes into your personal account and when you retire, you can claim that money that is being put into your account. Taxes were girst taken on October 14, 1936. Covers disease survivors as in veterans, old age, and the disabled. Obviously still around today.Native AmericansDescribe the culture of the 1930's.Key terms:Hundred Daysfireside chatspriming the pumpdeficit spendingThere had to have been a lot of politicians with even more time on their hands to have come up with all of these Acts and bills and what have you. For the most part all of the newly made projects helped the country, but those programs should have been established before the country went to hell, not after.
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