Work of Febuary 20-24

Monday

Opponents

Some say FDR went too far. Spent too much $$

Others say he didn’t do enough He needed to do more.

Huey long killed by weiss

Young people - CCC

Helped construct military bases during ww2

Their slogan was : We can Take it!

 Tuesday

NYA

Established in 1935

Pushed heavily by Eleanor Roosevelt

Served 327,000 high school and college youth who were paid $6 to $40 a month for work study projects at their schools

It allowed thousands of young people to stay in school

 FERA - Enacted in 1933

Fera distributed more than 20 million dollars direct aid to the unemployed

This is turn would help the unemployed to find new jobs ( direct relief measure

Provide work for employable people

Provide many different types of relief programs)

Public Works Administration (PWA)

Established in 1933

Created as many jobs as possible in different veriaties

Good thing that "primed the pump"

All about constructing projects (schools, buildings, dams, aircraft carriers)

Civil Works Administration

Created jobs for millions of the unemployed

The Cw=WA created construction jobs building bridges, schoos, playgrounds,

In just one yar, the CWA cost the government over 800 million and was canceled

Works Progress Administration

Established in 1935

The largest most program

The wpa made construction jobs for alot of people

The WPA built 650,000miles of roads, 78,000 bridges, 125,000 concerts and produced almost 475,000 works of art.

Known as Federal One project

WPA built the San Fransicso bridge

Emergency Banking Relief Act 

Passed five days after taking office march

Would close down the bank, reorganize it and then reopen the bank when it was stable

Federal Securities Act

Made the stock market a saver place for people to invest their money

Two goals

Required that investors receive significant information regarding securities being offered for public sale

and Prohibited deceit, misrepresentations, and other fraud in the sale of securities to the public

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