Chapter 23 Section 2 The New Deal Fights
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Chapter 23 Section 2 The New Deal Fights the Depression
Who is FDR? • Wealthy New Yorker who was a distant relation to TR • Also served as Asst. Sec. of Navy • Ran for V. P. in 1920, but Democrats lost! (Remember Harding? ) • Struck with Polio in 1921 • Fought long and hard to overcome disability • Elected Governor of NY in 1928 • Elected President in 1932 and wins 4 times in a row!
Roosevelt’s first move as president Emergency Banking Relief Act (EBRA) Immediate Authorized the Treasury Department to inspect and close banks. Long-term goal To restore public confidence in banks.
FDR and the “brain trust” come up with three main ideas: 1. Relief (weird green) 2. Recovery (blue) 3. Reform (brown)
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) Purpose – Set money aside for states so that they could open back up relief agencies for the needy.
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Long-term To reduce unemployment Immediate Put young men to work on road-building and conservation projects
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) Immediate - Paid farmers to lower production Long-term Raise crop prices (and, thus farm income)
Works Progress Administration (WPA) • The government put people to work repairing bridges, public buildings (like post offices), building roads and airports and even hired writers and artists to write and paint.
National Recovery Administration(NRA) Purpose – Keep prices for goods the same while putting more people back to work and allowing them to earn more income. Accomplishments – established a minimum wage, stopped child labor, and kept wages and prices on an even keel. Failure – Did not fix the economy!
Public Works Administration (PWA) http: //aphistory 2010. yolasite. com/ch 25. php
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) • Effects – Programs protecting the nation’s natural resources, including farmland – Prevention of floods and dust storms – More national parks and wildlife refugees – pollution
Truth-in-Securities Act Immediate Required corporations to provide complete information on all stock offerings Long-term To restore public confidence in the stock market
Glass-Steagall Banking Act of 1933 which created the FDIC Immediate Long-Term To restore public confidence in banks
Federal Power Commission (FPC) • Purpose – Helped control the oil and gas companies. • Also made the power of the (FDA) Food and Drug Administration more powerful.
http: //aphistory 2010. yolasite. com/ch 25. php Opposition to the New Deal http: //aphistory 2010. yolasite. com/ch 25. php
Click here to see an interactive map of all of the New Deal projects that took place all over the country!
- Soil conservation and domestic allotment act
- A new deal fights the depression
- Chapter 19 section 4 wilson fights for peace
- Chapter 19 section 2 american power tips the balance
- The new deal affects many groups
- Chapter 15 section 2 the second new deal takes hold
- Deal or no deal machine
- Asset deal vs share deal
- Forging a new deal section 1 answers
- Chapter 33 the great depression and the new deal
- Tennessee valley basin
- Chapter 17 section 3 teddy roosevelt's square deal
- Chapter 9 section 3 teddy roosevelts square deal
- Chapter 9 section 3 teddy roosevelts square deal
- What is at the root of most arguments and many fights?
- How can anger and revenge lead to fights
- Shrek satire clips