FDR's new deal

Question 1

AAA

Answer 1

Agricultural adjustment agency. This paid farmers to take land out of production and/or destroy food surplus.
Recovery - Helps farmers back into profit
Reform - Stops overproduction on farms

Question 2

CCC

Answer 2

Civilian conservation corps. Under 25’s are send to work in camps in the countryside, Gave 3 million men jobs and planted 3 billion trees as wind breaks
Relief - Gives work to unemployed men

Question 3

CWA

Answer 3

Civilian works administration. Jobs schemes through local governments like repairing roads and improving playing fields. Some of this spending was seen as unnecessary (paying actors and musicians etc.)
Relief - Gives work to unemployed men

Question 4

FERA

Answer 4

Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Created jobs through the CWA, set up soup kitchens etc.
Relief - Helped the needy

Question 5

NRA

Answer 5

National recovery administration. Created codes of practice so that they treated workers well. Promoted businesses that followed the codes with a blue eagle logo
Recovery - Increase worker spending (therefore profits)
Reform - Make things fairer for workers

Question 6

PWA

Answer 6

Public works administration. Gave moey to construction companies so they’d build things.
Recovery - Jobs for businesses and the unemployed
Reform - Improves the infrastructure of the USA

Question 7

TVA

Answer 7

Tennessee valley authority. Built 33 hydroelectric dams to create jobs and encourage business with cheap electricity and agriculture. Is still active today and is the biggest distributor of electricity in America
Recovery - Create jobs, boost industry and agriculture
Reform - Modernise the TVA area

Question 8

SCS

Answer 8

Soil conservation service. Monitored soil erosion, educated farmers about preventing soil erosion. It built wind breaks (for the dustbowl) and flood defences. Was created by the second new deal.
Recovery - End the dustbowl
Reform - Preventing another dustbowl