Forging A New Deal - Reading Quiz Flashcards
Hundred Days
Roosevelt pushed programs after programs to provide relief, create jobs, stimulate economic recovery.
“Improve conditions through Roosevelt programs”
From his inauguration in March to June 1933
New Deal
Relief, recovery, reform to FDRs administration
To help depression
“R.R.R. Help”
Public Works Program
Government-funded projects to build public facilities (help people with jobs).
Civilian Conservation Corps or Acts (CCC)
- FDR’s favorite program.
- Young, unmarried men to work in maintaining forests, beaches, parks.
- Got free rent, food, medical paid, yet only $30 a month.
- CCC.
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
Raise farm prices through govt. financial assistance (AAA).
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Helped farmers and created jobs in one of the country’s least developed regions (TVA).
FDR’s Administration. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- First to hire women in cabinet (Perkins)
- More African Americans in administration
- FDA’s wife, Eleanor, supported and helped him
Second New Deal
“Second 100 Days”
More social welfare benefits, better ___, and better stuff
Wagner Act
Legalized union practices as collective bargaining and closed shops.
Social Security System
Provide financial security in form of regular payments, who cannot support themselves.
Closed Shops
Workplaces open only to union members
Security and Exchange Communism
Regulate Stock Market (SEC).
Civil Works Administration
Put unemployed to work on building or improving roads, parks, etc.
National Recovery Administration
Balance unstable economy
Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
Offered loans to electric companies and farm for building power plants
