FDR's New Deals were a success

Question 1

What was the CCC?

Answer 1

Civilian Conservation Corps

Question 2

Which group did the CCC help?

Answer 2

Brought relief to young men between 18-25.

Question 3

What did the CCC enrol young men to do?

Answer 3

It enrolled young men in work across the country for about $30 per month (conservation projects such as planting trees, eliminating steam pollution, etc).

Question 4

How many young men took part in the CCC during the 1930s?

Answer 4

About 2 million.

Question 5

What was the AAA?

Answer 5

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Question 6

Which group did the AAA help?

Answer 6

It set out to provide economic relief to farmers.

Question 7

What happened to output through the AAA?

Answer 7

Through this act and the Commodity Credit Corporation, a program which extended loans for crops kept in storage and off the market, output dropped.

Question 8

What happened to farms between 1932 and 1935?

Answer 8

Farm income increased by more than 50%.

Question 9

What happened after the AAA was abandoned?

Answer 9

Congress passed a more effective farm-relief act, which authorized the government to make payments to farmers who reduced plantings of soil-depleting crops – thereby achieving crop reduction through soil conservation practices.

Question 10

Describe what had happened to nearly 6 million farmers by 1940.

Answer 10

By 1940 nearly 6 million farmers were receiving subsidies under the farm relief act. The prices of agricultural commodities rose, leaving the farmers with a sense of economic stability.

Question 11

What strengthened African-American support for the Democratic party?

Answer 11

The Roosevelt Administrations accessibility to black leaders and the New Deal reforms.

Question 12

What was made available to black families?

Answer 12

Low-cost public housing.

Question 13

What enabled black youths to continue their education?

Answer 13

The National Youth Administration and Civilian Conservation Corps.

Question 14

What did the Work Projects Administration do?

What did its Federal Writers Project support?

Answer 14

The Work Projects Administration gave jobs to many blacks and its Federal Writers Project supported the work of many authors (Zora Hurston, Waters Turpin).

Question 15

What did the civil service triple?

Answer 15

The number of African Americans in its employment between 1932 and 1941.

Question 16

What was the WPA?

Answer 16

Works Progress Administration

Question 17

Describe the aim of the WPA.

Answer 17

It was an attempt to provide work rather than welfare.

Question 18

What was constructed under the WPA?

Answer 18

Buildings, roads, airports and schools.

Question 19

What did the Federal Theatre, Art and Writer Projects do?

Answer 19

Actors, painters, musicians and writers were employed through the Federal Theatre, Art and Writer Projects.

Question 20

What was the NYA?

Answer 20

National Youth Administration

Question 21

What did the NYA do?

Answer 21

It gave part-time employment to students, established training programs and provided aid to unemployed youth.

Question 22

What happened to unemployment in 1939?

Answer 22

Unemployment fell due to the amendment of the 1935 Neutrality Act. This meant that belligerents could buy from the USA. Within a year there were orders for 10,800 aircraft and 13,000 aeroplane engines.

Question 23

What did historian Carl Degler have to say about FDR and his New Deal?

Answer 23

He called the New Deal ‘a third American revolution’ because of the growth in government involvement and the break with LF.