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First New Deal pt.1
First New Deal pt.2
Second New Deal & New Deal Legacies pt.1
Second New Deal & New Deal Legacies pt.2
The Impact of the New Deal
100
Public Works
What are government funded building projects?
100
Securities and Exchange Commission
What government watchdogs over the nation's stock markets?
100
Gave money to people immediately
What is the federal Emergency Relief Administration
100
Government is spending more than they make/bring in.
What is deficit?
100
Social Security and unemployment insurance
What are the two successful relief efforts?
200
Used radio to communicate with American people.
What are Fireside Chats?
200
Agricultural Adjustment Act
What gave farmers a subsidy, given a payment to grow fewer crops.
200
Employed 8.5 million Americans and they build roads, subways, airports, zoos, and worked in offices, schools, museums, and factories
What is the Works Progress Administration
200
First woman to ever head an executive department, served as Secretary of Labor
Who was Francis Perkins?
200
FDIC (Insured peoples bank accounts) and the SEC (government watchdogs over nation's markets)
What are the two successful reform reliefs?
300
Relief, Recovery, and Reforms
What are FDR's three R's
300
Civil Works Admin
What program provided winter employment, built highways, sewer lines, airports, school buildings, and playground and parks?
300
Social Security
What is a financial cushion if you lost your job, monthly payments?
300
New roles supported __________ in FDR's cabinet
What are women and African Americans?
300
Works Progress Administration
What is the most successful relief program in all of history?
400
Gave government officials the power to examine all banks, determine its situation, and take steps to correct problems
What is the Emergency Banking Act
400
Tennessee Valley Authority
What program build dams and other projects along the TN River and tributaries?
400
FDR wanting to put more judges who friendly his New Deal programs. Result: Lost some supporters.
What is the Court Packing Plan?
400
Farm Security Administration
What focused on the lives of tenant farmers and sharecroppers?
400
Fair Labor Standards Act
What established minimum wage and a max of 40 hours a worker and work?
500
provided government insurance for depositors savings?
What is the FDIC (Fed Dep Inc Corp)
500
Civilian Conversation Corp
What sought to solve unemployment in young men 18-25?
500
Aided some of the nation's poorest, tenant farmers and sharecroppers.
What is Farm Tenancy Act
500
Dorothea Lange
Who recorded images of the Depression sufferers in her home town in San Francisco?
500
World War II
What ended The Great Depression?