Alphabet Soup
Put America to Work
The Problem this Program Solved
Lasting Legacies
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100
This New Deal program employed young men to plant trees, fight fires, and build parks.
What is the CCC?
100
This artist produced significant work under the Works Progress Administration (WPA) during the 1930s. His most famous WPA commission was the 1934 four-panel mural series Aspects of Negro Life for the 135th Street Library (now Schomburg Center) in Harlem.
Who is Aaron Douglas
100
During the Great Depression, America's Unemployment rate peaked at 25% in 1933.
What is The Works Progress Administration (WPA)
OR
What is the Public Works Administration (PWA)
100
Thanks to this program, our money is safe and accessible, even if our bank closes.
What is the FDIC?
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
100
A nickname for the first New Deal programs.
(You may also eat this when you're sick!)
What is alphabet soup?
200
This agency insured Americans’ bank deposits to prevent bank runs.
What is the FDIC?
200
Unlike the CCC, this program offered part-time jobs and scholarships instead of full-time camps.
What is the NYA?
200
Farmers were overcropping, (growing too many crops) making crops too cheap and the land unsustainable.
What is The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
Which boosted agricultural prices by offering government subsidies to farmers to reduce output.
200
Thanks to this program, any citizen who legally works in the United States for 10 years will have a retirement fund they can access when they turn 65 years old.
What is the Social Security Administration?
200
The Wagner Labor Relations Act focused on collective bargaining and labor organizing. People often do this when they are about to form a ____________.
What is Union?
A labor union is organized group of employees who join together to collectively negotiate with employers for better wages, benefits, safer working conditions, and job security.
300
This program hired millions to build roads, bridges, and schools—and even funded artists and writers.
What is the WPA?
300
This program provided jobs in government-run factories powered by hydroelectric dams.
What is the TVA?
300
Child labor, 80 hour work weeks, and wages that were too low.
What is The Fair Labor Standards Act?
Which mandated a 40-hour work week (with time-and-a-half for overtime), set an hourly minimum wage, and restricted child labor.
300
Thanks to this program, 11 public pools were built in New York City. Many are still open, including the largest pool, Astoria Pool in Queens.
What is the Works Progress Administration? (WPA)
300
The reformers from this era in history would have been very excited about the Fair Labor Standards Act.
What is the Progressive Era?
400
This agency focused on helping young people ages 16–25 with jobs and scholarships.
What is the NYA?
400
This mural was commissioned by the WPA during The Great Depression. It is on the first floor of this local specialized high school, the largest high school in the United States.
What is Brooklyn Technical High School?
400
People were too old or sick to work, and didn't have enough money to survive.
What is The Social Security Act?
Which required workers and employers to contribute—through a payroll tax—to the Social Security trust fund. That fund, in turn, makes monthly payments to retirees over the age of 65, as well as to the long-term disabled.
400
This President permanently transformed the U.S. federal government. Ever since The New Deal the federal government actively regulates our economy, and it provides social safety net programs for citizens.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt? (FDR)
400
This person was married to FDR, and her Uncle was Teddy Roosevelt.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
500
This New Deal agency built many dams to support flood control. It also brought electricity to the Tennessee River Valley.
What is the TVA?
500
This employment program excluded women entirely, and Black men who participated often faced discrimination.
But it did help beautify national parks!
What was the CCC?
Civilian Conservation Corps
500
Risky stock trading practices, like buying stocks "on margin" and insider trading (when someone buys or sells stocks using secret information that the public does not know yet)
What is The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
Which brought important federal government oversight and regulation to the stock market.
500
This government agency is now also responsible for regulating cryptocurrency. (Something that definitely did not exist in the 1930's!)
What is the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)?
500
What ultimately got the United States out of the Great Depression?
What was factory production during WWII?