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)?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?Franklin lived in Hyde Park. He wasn't very socailable. He was always very hyper. He joined a top school where he go to know his cousin. Being in college at Harvard his dad died of a heart diease. He was the editor of the Hravard newspaper. Harvard got to know women at Harvard. A girl he met proposed to him and he turned her down. Then he met Eleanor and married her. They had six kids. He died and was buried in Hyde Park. Theodore was Eleanor's Roosevelt uncle and Eleanor was Franklin's fifth cousin.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.--Farmers, The RFC.--Factory Workers/Labor--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.--Banks/Business, 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.--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.--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 AmericansDescribe the culture of the 1930's.*Key terms:*--Hundred Days--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--Deficit SpendingBlog Topic this week: Something that covers Black History Month from List
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