Essay USA Flashcards
1
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INTRODUCTION 12
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- Hoover
- Oct 24 1929
- Unemployment
- Snowball Effect Banking - ALL
- Rugged Individualism & Laissez Faire
- Hoover INSENSITIVE
- 1923 Roosevelt
- Activist ‘voice of hope’
- New Deal March 4 193
- RRR
- Second New Deal 1935
- Fight unemployment, welfare, society security
2
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PARA ONE NEW DEAL - RELIEF 11
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- Aggressive = Positive
- 100 Days
- FERA $500, homeless and starving
- CCC men 25, trees, land
- 1932-1942 3 million in CCC
- CWA winter 1933-1934, sweeping
- Confidence
- Purpose
- PWA long term
- 7 billion dams, bridges etc
- 1930-1933 70% schools 33% hospitals
3
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PARA TWO NEW DEAL - BANKING/BUSINESS/FARMING 14
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- Aggressive, Intervention
- 4 Day Banking Holiday March 6 1933
- Reorganised, Strengthened
- Financially sound
- Most survived
- Gold Standard March/April 1933
- Increase foreign trade
- Fireside Chat March 12 1936 Sunday
- Boost moral/confidence
- Saviour
- Farmers 1920’s +
- FCA loans 1/5
- AAA paid to produce less
- Emergency Farm Mortgage March 1933
4
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PARA 3 SECOND NEW DEAL AND SUPREME COURT 12
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- New Deal ‘unconstitutional’
- Adjusting in Second New Deal
- Tension
- Long term ALL AGES/FINANCIAL
- WPA (Works Progress Administration) more public works
- Resettlement Admin 1935
- Farm Security Admin 1937 better land resettle
- Social Security Act 1935
- Pensions
- Appoint judges
- 11/16 ‘unconstitutional’
- Impose FED power on STATE
5
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PARA 4 OTHER OPPONENTS 14
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- Republican
- Business
- Wealthy
- Thrive off REPUBLICAN IDEOLOGIES
- Too much intervention ‘dictator’
- Communist TVA NRA
- Undermining ‘American Way’
- Lazy, dependent, unmotivated
- Waste of money
- Business liked LAISSEZ FAIRE
- Trade Unions Wagner act 1935
- Social Security Contributions
- Liberty League 1934
- Wealthy; taxes and loss of power
6
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CONCLUSION 6
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- willingness
- outline positive
- outline negative
- result
- direct govt aid
- success
