Today people presented their pesentations.
https://mrbruns.ning.com/group/ushistory/forum/topics/new-deal-test-...
What was the New Deal(1st and 2nd) and it's goals(3 R's)?
FDR's plan to get people out of the depression. most at fixing banks stock market economy
The second new deal was aimed at the common people.
Relief- The immidiate action. Was to try to help the people out
Reform- Trying to help the banks or economic system
Recovery- From the Great Depression (Was really the ultimate goal)
Why did people criticize the New Deal?
They didn't believe that Roosevelt was doing enough to make people have jobs. And people thought that he was going too far.Republican people thought that he was doing to much or rich ppl.
Because thought that he was becoming dictorial.
Why was FDR upset with the US Supreme Court and what did he do to try to solve this issue?
They were declaring laws like the AAA unconstitutional. He tried to get a law passed where he would be able to pack the surpeme court with democrats, because he was a democrat. He lost a lot of support from this.
How did the New Deal help:
--Unemployed, The PWA built things to help the unemployeed. They used billions of
dollars. It helped people have more jobs. It did construction projects.
The CWA was created on Nov 8, 1933. This created about Four million
jobs but they were only temperary because it ened after five months.
Many people thought that it was unofficail because it way over budget.
It cost $200 million a month to pay for supplies and workers wages.
RFC. USHA-- Housing program was to help the poor get jobs. They built
apartment type houses for these people and it would put people back on
track. This lead into the PWA. NYA (National Youth Administration) It
gave people jobs. Its not around today. It gave young people money to
build like school and such. People would do these jobs during or after
school. This was mainly for young people. This was for girls and boys.
This allowed them to stay in school. They did like school project wages
were about 6-40 dollars a month dependung on how much work they did. It
helped for future job training. They were criticized because these
people were getting paid with tax dollars and people thought that it
was a waste of tax dollars. Overall it was successful though. WPA, it
supplied the unemployeed with jobs to do things like making streets and
they would go to small towns and build things such as parks of
anything. During the 8 years it built 651,087 miles of highways and
such. Harry L. Hopkins was the head of this. Established in 1935
terminated in 1943. This was because of the War the was coming up. Many
workers when on strike because they were getting paid as much.
--Farmers, The RFC. The Soil Conservation, to control soil erosion and over
production of crops. It gave financial and technical support to
farmers. Farmers didn't really think it thought because tthey thought
that the government would eventually take over the farms. The Act
Surplus basically paid farmers to produce less crops that were
currently in abundance. The Tennesses Valley Authority. The
Agricultural Adjustment Act, farmers were paid to cut down their crops.
TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
--Factory Workers/Labor, NLR Act, Established minimum wage .This made sure that employees were
getting treated fairly, Set standards for workers, They were very hands
on with businesses. In other words they were pretty strict. Workers
liked it at the beginning but that changed as time went on. The act
didn't covered all the workers.
--Young People NYA (National Youth Administration) It gave people jobs. Its not around today. It
gave young people money to build like school and such. People would do
these jobs during or after school. This was mainly for young people.
This was for girls and boys. This allowed them to stay in school. They
did like school project wages were about 6-40 dollars a month dependung
on how much work they did. It helped for future job training. They were
criticized because these people were getting paid with tax dollars and
people thought that it was a waste of tax dollars. Overall it was
successful though. The CCC, Helped poor single men learn basic schools.
People that were affected by this act were affected by the World War.
It helped 3 million people. It took place in all the states too. 18-26
were affected by this only. It was very approved by all people. The SCA
was founded in 1955 which was very simliar to this. The CCC is not
around today.
--Banks/Business/Stock Market, RFC gaves businesses to banks and railroads loans and it gave over 2 billion
dollars. It helped set up relief programs. This was Hoover's thing but
it was continued by FDR. (Franklin D. Roosevelt) The banks would use
this to give more loans out and for other businesses would build things
so jobs would be able to be created. FSA it was the first federal
legislation to regulate the sale of securities (stock) It was signed
into act by FDR. Maintain objective was to have people know exactly
what they were getting. It probihited fraud. Still exists but has been
improved greatly. It was very successful. ~Emergancy Banking Relief
Act, this was also known as a banking holiday. Started by the U.S.
Congress. It tooka while to decide. PAssed on March 3, 1933. It was to
reorganized banks. Took small steps to prgress it. Right after stock
market crash banks were closing until 1933. They closed the banks down
temporarily and reorganize them so that they were safe enough to put
money back in. If the banks were to close on their own they wouldn't
ever come back and people would lose their money. This act was made to
help people to not loose thier money. The Banking Act of the 1935
established the FDIC was also known as he Glass-Steagall Act. Was made
in order to decrease inflation. It allowed the Federal Reserve to
regulate interest rates in savings accounts.
--Home Owners, USHA--Housing program was to help the poor get jobs. They built
apartment type houses for these people and it would put people back on
track. This lead into the PDA. Public Works Administration. The
government had construction projects and they saved half of them for
blacks and this eventually turned these places into ghettos. The FHA
mortgages in short term were really bad at that time. Banks needed to
get their money back so many homes were foreclosed Banks still lost
money from doing this so they eventually shut down. The FHA planned to
controll the interest rates since they were really high. they wanted to
stimulate the housing market by helping people to afford the down
payment on houses and mortgages. This convinced banks to end more and
that lead to lend more money. After four years of this people were able
to by a house with ten percent down and then they could get a twelve
year mortgage. It built home for veterans back from world war two. Some
even built apartments for the elderly. It helped not having the houses
being foreclosed on.
--Elderly, The Socail Security Act is a tax that is taken out of your income. It covers survivors, old age, and
people with disablities. It is still around today. It was pretty
successful.
--Native Americans, IRA, Helped many Indians that were living in the slums. We gave up land and set it aside for the
indians. It basically got rid of the Daw's Act. We assigned land to
indivual tribes. it went form 130 million square acres in 1887 to only
48 million. There were three tribes that didn't this because they
didn't trust us. Up til this point it was all about taking away from
Native Americans. With this act we were giving back to them. It is
still around today. It was successful, but it was too little too late.
Many times we would end up assigning tribes with big rivals and that
would make them made. They couldn't get control of their government.
--Consumers, FD&C (Foor Drug and Cosmetic Act) It protects from toxins being put in food, drugs, and cosmetics. It also made sure that the labels were correct and not misleading on the food.
*Key terms:*
--Hundred Days, He was going to get a lot of things done. He was going to get a lot of this passed.
--Fireside Chats, Informal addresses. Franklin gave these all throughout the start
and end of his presidency. These would be over the radio. The purpose
was to have America listen to a time when they didn't know where to
turn. Franklin was the first president to do anything like this. This
is still around today wtih Obama. But, of course its over either
Youtube or MSN. These did have a huge impact on the nation. It calmed
people down, although not everyone did like it. This did start a
tradition.
--Priming the Pump, the government throwing money into the economy to get it stimulated.
--Deficit Spending, When the government spends more then they make in revenue. This would then cause the country to be in debt.
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