1930 NEW DEAL REFORMS

Question 0

Hoover dam

Answer 0

Not called that ATM

PWP generates electricity, creates isolated jobs

Question 1

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

RFC

Answer 1

Hoover
After bank collapse, came too late for what it did
No real impact
Depended on trickle down economics (give money to groups, they will spend. But they didn’t.)

Loans to banks/businesses
Funds for relief efforts/Public works
Not all money given used (20%)

Question 2

Bank holiday

Answer 2

First act of FDR
4 day bank closure

Created sense of relief
Led to emergency banking act
Dispels panic, encouraged people to go back to the banks
1 billion put back by people

Question 3

Emergency banking act

Answer 3

Protect large banks from being dragged down
Passed in 4 hours by congress because they were scared shitless
Treasury department inspection before banks reopened (bank holiday)

Question 4

Economy act

Answer 4

Convince conservative Americans (and buisness) that the gov was in good hands and gucci
Proposed balance to fed gov by cutting salaries/reduce vet pension
Pasted real fast wow getting shit done

Question 5

Prohibition repeal

Answer 5

1933

Legalize sale of beer, FDR passed 21st

Question 6

agricultural adjustment act

AAA

Answer 6

Aided farmers, regulates crops
Subsides for not growing (unconstitutional later)

Resulted in rise in prices
Farm income increased 50%

Favored large farms
Encourage evicting of sharecroppers and field hands when fields lay idle

Question 7

National recovery administration

NRA

Answer 7

Hugh Johnson
Established optional national blanket code of minimum wage and reduced workweek among buisness
Child labor outlawed

Codes poorly written 
Hard to enforce 
Favored large businesses (these hoes were writing it)
Artificially raised prices 
Declined production 
"Schecter case"
Sick chicken

Question 8

CCC civilian construction corps

Answer 8

Employed young white men on projects, plus food and board
Created national parks
Planted tree lines (dust bowl)

Question 9

FERA federal emergency relief fund

Answer 9

Grants to state and local govs for relief programs

Directior Harry Hopkins

Question 10

PWA public works administration

Answer 10

Harold ickes
Granted money to state govs for infrastructure projects 
Created lots of jobs 
Lower paying than NRA,overemployment
Employ people quickly in big numbers 
Replaced with WPA later

Question 11

WPA

Answer 11

SND
The renaissance: don't starve
Jobs to artists/variety
Part time to teens
More inclusive for whites 
Better organized than PWA

Question 12

SEC securities and exchange commission

Answer 12

Regulate stock market/ limit speculative practices
Protect investors from Freud
Reform

Question 13

FHA federal housing adm

Answer 13

Insured bank loans for building and repairing housing

Question 14

RA resettlement Administration

Answer 14

SND under brain trust tugwell; loans to sharecroppers, tenants, small farmers. Decent housing for migrants

Question 15

REA rural electrification adm

Answer 15

SND

Power in rural areas reform

Question 16

Federal tax increase

Answer 16

SND

1935 tax on inheritance and generally for wealthy

Question 17

NLRB and Wagner act

Answer 17

Workers right to union and board formed to enforce

Question 18

Court packing bill

Answer 18

1937 get rid of all old people in Supreme Court so FDR can do what he want