RURAL ELECTRIFICATION ADMINISTRATION REA Olivia Ronchetti Presley Stevens

RURAL ELECTRIFICATION ADMINISTRATION (REA) Olivia Ronchetti Presley Stevens Brian Tarhon

INFORMATION & ISSUES Information Created to bring electricity to rural areas Established in 1935 in Warm Springs, GA Morris Cooke designed the first rural electrification system Rural Georgia played a role in illuminating the nations farms and rural back roads Issues & Criticism Prohibitive to farmers Utility companies opposed the idea Most people didn’t want the government to interfere People thought that farmers did not have the skills to mange electric companies

STATISTICS Served 288, 000 households Established 417 rural electric cooperatives By 1938 almost 1. 5 million farms had received electricity By 1939 rural households with electricity had risen to 25%

Social Security Administration (SSA) By: Hana Smith, Dylan Dameron, Dom Blaylock, Hailey Figur

Social Security Administration This act instituted mandatory old age insurance. It also issued benefits in proportion to the previous earnings of those over 65. The original levy was 1%, but the rate has increased. They helped furnish old age penitentiaries. This act also sparked a crusade for old age penitentiaries.

This is a picture of a ticket of someone's social security number , and with out this number you cant get the money from social security. Each person has a card like this which allows them to get money without working. For example some one who is retired could have this and this is there social security card.

Social Security Administration The SSA or Social Security Act was administrated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in August 14, 1935. The act was trying to solve the issue of unemployment and retired people with not enough money. The act also caused a rise in taxes and only employees and industry commercial occupation were eligible under the protection of the SSA

Tennessee Valley Authority TVA By: Connor W, Valerie P and Kayra K

Descriptions of the TVA built dams on the Tennessee River to control the flooding and generate electricity. Three North Georgia lakes are now apart of the TVA’s territory are Mississippi, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia.

Statistics of the TVA Covers 80, 000 square miles and serves more than 9 million people. Sells electricity to 155 power distributors customers and 56 directly served industries and federal facilities.

Federal Housing Administration Act of 1937 (FHA) Erin Tapley, Ethan Helms, Greer Flint, and Lamisa Karim P 2

Information and statistics FHA was created to insure home loans for low-income families. It insured banks, mortgage companies, and other lenders, thereby encouraging the construction of new homes and repair of existing structures. It was FDR’s hope that the law would also provide employment in the construction industry. The new law established The USHA ( United States Housing Authority) that provided $500 Million in loans for low-cost housing projects across the country. The USHA was empowered to advance loans amounting 90% of project costs, at low interest and on 60 - year terms. By the end of 1940, over 500 USHA projects were in progress or had been completed, with loan contracts of %691 Million

USHA and Statistics The new law established The USHA ( United States Housing Authority) that provided $500 Million in loans for low-cost housing projects across the country. The USHA was empowered to advance loans amounting 90% of project costs, at low interest and on 60 - year terms. By the end of 1940, over 500 USHA projects were in progress or had been completed, with loan contracts of %691 million. By 1934, The FHA insured 34 million home mortgages. The FHA now has 4. 8 million insured.

Criticisms/Issues Some of the criticisms of it were that it met the needs of existing home owners and those able to purchase homes but did little for the poor and the African- Americans living in the slums. Landlords in the real- estate industry believed that the rental and sales market would be undercut by cheaper public housing. Some were afraid of the budgeting impact of a costly public housing and many congress men from more rural parts of the country feared that such a program would help cities instead of smaller communities.

Pictures Many house got foreclosed and the FHA help stop foreclosure.

NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY ACT (NIRA) By Elijah, Tina, and Luke

PROBLEM • 1935 NIRA was declared unconstitounal. • Roosevelt's NIRA posed a major threat to mill owners, and it didn’t take long for trouble to break out. • Industry workers were supposed to do the same amount of work in 8 hours instead of 12 hours with the same pay and the work was brutal and impossible and clearly against the intent of law

SOLUTION • NIRA was designed to help workers by setting minimum wages, permitting them to organize unions, allowing factories to cut back on production. • Companies were required to write industry wide codes of fair competition that effectively fixed wages and prices, established production and quotas. • NIRA suspended antitrust laws and supported an alliance of industries. • Industrial production increased 55% by the

The AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act) BY MAYA NISSENBAUM, BEN ZELLER, DAVID ROSS, AND CYLE FORTE

About it… • Supports farmers by limiting supply • Congress declared that it was “the policy of congress” to balance supply and demand for farm commodities so that prices would support a decent purchasing power for farmers… this was known as “parity” • Controlled the supply of 7 “Basic Crops”- Corn wheat, cotton, rice, peanuts, tobacco, and milk- by offering payments to farmers in return for taking some of their land out of farming, not planting a crop • Critics admitted that this law helped to revive hope in farm communities • Farmers were put on local committees and spoke their minds • Government checks began to flow • Legislation remained the basis for all farm programs in the following 70 years of the 20 th century

Civilian Conservation Corps By: Jack Magill, Radman Karbasyoun, Allen Hadzic, Parker Mills

Facts Ø The CCC provided jobs for young single men Ø They built forest trails and roads, planted trees to reforest the land, and control flooding Ø Created 200 men work camps which employed 78, 000 people Ø They worked in labor camps, there was 200 -300 men per labor camp Ø They were called the tree army Ø They made 25 -30 dollars a month, 20 which went to their families and the rest they kept Ø Men learned skill for a career during WWII

Criticism / issues § A man Named Eugene Tallmadge argued about state affairs § African Americans were not given fair opportunities to get a job or were payed less § The camps were segregated § African Americans were often discouraged or even prevented from enlisting

Georgia Facts § They built pine mountain park § They planted more than 22 million trees § Built half a million erosion-control dams § Ran more than 3, 600 mile of telephone lines § Built state parks, lakes and many ponds § Created Indian Springs, and Vogel § Worked on Chickamauga, Kennesaw mountain, Andersonville, Fort Pulaski, Appalachian trail