Making The New Deal
programs, such as the CCC, the WPA, the TVA, the SEC
What are experimental New Deal projects?
a series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans
What is the New Deal?
A president who was incredibly active in the first 100 days of his presidency
Who is Roosevelt?
the legislation that Roosevelt and Congress passed between 1935 and 1938 (drastically different from the 1st)
What is the second new deal?
a program that helped struggling Americans and retired Americans
What is Social Security?
A series of radio broadcasts made by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the nation, beginning in 1933
What are fireside chats?
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), The Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA), The National Recovery Act (NRA), The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
What are the "alphabet" agencies?
a series of 15 major pieces of legislation put in place to help the country out of the Great Depression
What is Roosevelt’s First 100 Days?
the Second New Deal legislation relied more heavily on the Keynesian style of deficit spending than the First New Deal did
What is the difference between the 1st and 2nd new deal?
a workers group with protections for the workers from the employer
What is a workers union?
an act that reorganized the banks and closed the ones that were insolvent
What was Roosevelt's Emergency Banking Act?
Relief, Recovery, and Reform
What are the "Three Rs" of the new deal?
An amendment to the constitution that brought back revenue from the tax on alcohol
What is the repeal of prohibition?
created by Congress in 1937, gave assistance to American urbanites, building new houses for over half a million Americans
What is the United States Housing Authority (USHA)?
a government agency used to help protect the value of American money and to insure banks deposits
What is the FDIC?
an act that provided jobs and electricity to the rural Tennessee River Valley, an area that spans seven states in the South
What was the TVA (Tennessee Valley Act)?
This group of people thought the New Deal went too far
An act that cut government spending on some salaries and pensions
What is the economy act?
prevented employers from interfering with workers’ unions and protests in the private sector. The act established the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to protect the rights of workers to organize, bargain collectively, and strike
What is the Wagner Act?
The commission that oversees the stock market
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission?
created by the Emergency Conservation Work Act, the CCC put unemployed young men to work in the nation’s forests and parks
What is the Civilian Conservation Corp?
This group was created by business leaders in protest of the New Deal
What is the American Liberty League?
brought economic relief to many Americans in 1933 through programs that addressed banking, farming, and unemployment
What are the (broad) effects of the 1st new deal?
developed by the British economist John Maynard Keynes during the 1930s in an attempt to understand the Great Depression
What is Keynesian economics?
a department that helps unemployed people find jobs building things like post offices, bridges, schools, highways and parks.
What is the WPA?