Impacts of the New Deal

Question 1

How many did the Works Progress Administration employ each year until its end in 1943?

Answer 1

3million

Question 2

What was the decline in unemployment under the New Deal?

Answer 2

13million to 9million

Question 3

What happened to capitalism under the New Deal?

Answer 3

remained intact

Question 4

What was the principle of the New Deal in terms of government spending and the deflationary spiral?

Answer 4

Only great government spending could pull USA out of deflationary spiral

spending money to prop demand up

Question 5

What did great government spending apparently mean for the budget?

Answer 5

deficit financing would be necessary

Question 6

The idea of government being more present in people’s lives

e.g jobs w/ gov. employment programmes

Answer 6

Progressivism

Question 7

Who was brought together under the popularity of FDR and his new deal programmes?

Answer 7

progressives +
unionised workers +
middle class +
African-Americans

Question 8

Which ground / geographical location proved a major block in the New Deal coalition?

Answer 8

White southerners (mainly racist)

Question 9

What party did the white southerners who represented a major block in the New Deal belong to

Answer 9

Democrats

*although without them FDR could not have passed the new deal laws

Question 10

What X2 conditions did southern democrats insist upon since they wanted whites to dominate government + the economy

Answer 10

• local administration of many new deal programmes

- ensured AAA and NIRA would exclude share croppers, domestic servants (mainly blacks) etc.

Question 11

Idea the New Deal did not end the Depression in terms of unemployment

Answer 11

over 15% of US workforce remained unemployed

Question 12

The government spending was working, but did not fully end the depression…(evidence in terms of subsidies)

Answer 12

when FDR reduced government subsidies to farms and WPA in 1937 unemployment jumped back up to 20%

Question 13

When did FDR cancel subsidies to farms and WPA?

Answer 13

1937

Question 14

Government spending was the reason for the depression ending…evidence

Answer 14

some economists see end of depression as WWII - where massive gov. spending was required

Question 15

What did the New Deal mean for the American Democratic Party and voters?

Answer 15

African-Americans became reliable democratic voters

Question 16

What did the introduction of progressivism via the New Deal mean for the role of government?

Answer 16

changed expectations Americans had of their government during future hardships

Question 17

Goner’s comment on the New Deal’s importance;

Answer 17

“made the government an institution directly experienced in Americans’ daily lives and directly concerned with their welfare”