07: New Deal

Question 1

What did the CCC do?

Answer 1

• Helped 2.5 million single men under 25 years
• segregated camps for African Americans + only 200,000 benefit

Question 2

What year did the New Deal start?

Answer 2

1933

Question 3

How many people were unemployed in 1936?

Answer 3

9 million

Question 4

When did the 2nd New Deal start?

Answer 4

1935

Question 5

How much money did the Emergency Banking Act give banks?

Answer 5

$1 billion

Question 6

What gave people around 2 million jobs in the 2nd New Deal?

Answer 6

WPA - Works Progress Administration

Question 7

What did the Wagners Act do?

Answer 7

Supported workers wishing to form trade union

Question 8

What did the Emergency Banking Act do?

Answer 8

1. Closed all banks for 4 days
2. Only 5000 honest and well-run banks open
3. $1 billion given to banks

Question 9

How did the New Deal tackle poverty?

Answer 9

• FERA (Federal Emergency Relief Administration) - set up soup kitchens + nursery care
• HOLC (Home Owners Loan Corporation) - rescued 20% mortgages

Question 10

How did the New Deal tackle unemployment ?

Answer 10

• CCC - gave job + purpose to 2.5 million single men under 25
• PWA built schools, bridges + airports creating millions of jobs
• NRA - limited working hours + set minimum wage

Question 11

What did the NRA (National Recovery Administration) do ?

Answer 11

• regulated industry: fixed prices for goods
• prevented exploitation: limited working hours + set minimum wage
• Businesses marked with Blue Eagle

Question 12

How did the New Deal restore confidence?

Answer 12

• fireside chats
• Emergency Banking Act

Question 13

How did the New Deal help Farmers?

Answer 13

• AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration) - set production quotas + gave machinery to aid production –> farmers income ×2
• TVA (Tennesse Valley Authority) - built irrigation channels + helped prevent erosion + infertile land

Question 14

What was the positive impact of the AAA?

Answer 14

Farmers income ×2 (as machinery given for production + quotas set for production ensuring no surplus goods)

Question 15

How did the New Deal help the environment?

Answer 15

• TVA helped prevent erosion + infertile land
• AAA quotas meant that not too much food produced to affect land
• CCC - men planted trees

Question 16

3 Acts from Second New Deal:

Answer 16

1. Social Security Act - state pension to >65s + unemployment insurance schemes
2. Wagner Act
3. Farm Security Administration - LOANS to tenant farmers + sharecroppers to buy land

Question 17

Who granted FDR emergency powers for 100 days?

Answer 17

Senate + House of Representatives

Question 18

What were the successes dlof thr New Deal?

Answer 18

• Unemployment dropped by more than 50% from 1933 to 1936
• Confidence restored
• millions of jobs created
• FDR re-elected 3x

Question 19

What were the criticisms of the New Deal?

Answer 19

• not laissez-faire
• Out of 2.5 million men, only 200,000 African Americans were helped by CCC + they were in segregated camps
• Some agency’s measures deemed unconstitutional (e.g. AAA measures)
• By 1936, 6 million still unemployed