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New Deal Relief, Recovery, and Reform

Relief • It was aimed at providing help to the millions of workers and their families that were jobless and homeless

Relief 1. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) • Hired young men to plant trees, build dams, and work on other conservation projects • Lived in army-type camps • Paid $30 a month and had to send $22 home 2. Public Works Administration (PWA) • Created jobs by having people build highways, bridges, schools, hospitals, airports, and ships for the navy • Gave about a half of million people jobs

Relief 3. Works Progress Administration (WPA) • Employed almost 8 million men and women as artists, writers, musicians, and constructions workers • Cleared slums, built power plants, performed free plays and concerts • Largest and most controversial program criticized for wasting tax payer’s money applauded for creating jobs and boosting morale

Recovery • Aimed at helping the economy get back on its feet and focused on agriculture and industry

Recovery 1. Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) • Tried to bring farm income up to WWI level • Paid farmers to produce less cotton, corn, wheat, rice, milk, and fewer hogs • Bought farm products to distribute to people for relief 2. Farm Security Administration (FSA) • Tried to relieve rural poverty • Gave loans to sharecroppers, tenant farmers, and laborers to buy land, tools, and livestock • Educated farmers on soil conservation, new crops, and farm management

Recovery 3. National Recovery Administration (NRA) • Regulated industry by creating strict codes for businesses on prices charged and amount of goods produced • Raised wages-set • Prohibited child labor 4. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) • Helped restore confidence in the banks by protected the money of depositors in insured banks • Banks that were insured had to pass government inspections and follow government regulations

Reform • Aimed at making changes in the way Americans worked and did business so as to prevent future depressions

Reform 1. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) • Set up to oversee the buying and selling of stocks 2. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) • Created to protect workers who wanted to organize unions • Employees had right to collective bargain with employers for better wages and working conditions

Reform 3. Rural Electrification 4. Tennessee Valley Administration (REA) Authority (TVA) • Brought electricity to • Built dams and rural areas operated power plants to provide low-cost electricity to people in seven states

Reform 5. Social Security Administration (SSA) • Created to provide retirement pay to older citizens or people unable to work

Georgia’s Response to the New Deal (Opposition) • Governor Eugene Talmadge did not support many parts of the New Deal called it a threat to “Georgia’s way of life” 1. Opposed to minimum wage - Hurt small private businesses - Threaten white supremacy 2. Vetoed social security retirement benefits 3. Vetoed unemployment insurance

Georgia’s Response to the New Deal (Opposition) 4. Called President Roosevelt a Socialist 5. Planned to challenge Roosevelt for the Presidency in the 1946 election because term limits prevented him from running for governor again

Georgia’s Response to the New Deal (Support) • Many Georgians welcomed the help the New Deal provided • Roosevelt was special to many Georgians -He visited Warm Springs, Georgia for polio treatment - Established his “Little White House” in Warm Springs

Georgia’s Response to the New Deal (Support) • 1936 elections Georgians choose: – Roosevelt for President – Richard B. Russell for U. S. Senator – Eurith D. (E. D. ) Rivers for Governor • Rivers supported: – the New Deal – Healthcare and welfare programs for rural Georgians

Georgia’s Response to the New Deal (Support) • Better education - 7 month school year and free textbooks for students • State highway patrol • Required driver’s licenses • First 4 -lane highway