ND Failures/Successes Flashcards
FAILURES: unemployment
Still high: 1941 6 million
35% of African Americans
Jobs created were temporary
1937 Recession to 20%
Solved by WW1
FAILURE: Underlying causes
Many still poor + homeless, especially African Americans
Old industries still dying
Farmers still poor: underinvestment
FAILURE: massive gov debt
$22 Billion in 1933 to $40 Billion 1939
Alphabet Agencies spent a lot of money
FAILURE: slow recovery
Spending at 75% of 1920s
Europe had recovered faster
Unemployment still high (1935 20%)
1937 recession
FAILURE: 1937 Recession
FDR cut New Deal’s budget
Workers laid off, unemployment to 20%
GNP falls by 10%
Production by 50%
Middle class workers lost confidence
FAILURE: amercian people
Division Rep/Dem
Undermined local government (unconstitutional by SC)
Unequal society
FAILURE: industrial workers
Big businesses still powerful, (e.g Ford controlled local police)
FAILURE: african americans and women
Unemployment at 35% for AAs (higher than white people)
No civil rights achievements/role of vast majority of women
Some discrimination (e.g CCC racist + only 8,000 women)
SUCCESS: american people
Restored govt confidence, helped people recover
Minimal corruption
Stabilised banking system
Invested hugely in long lasting infrastructure
SUCCESS: industrial workers
NRA and Wagner Act strenghtened trade unions, 7 million members by 1939
CIO improved conditions
UAW recognised by car makers
SUCCESS: unemployment
Millions of jobs created:
2.5 million by CCC young men
PWA millions in construction
TVA 300,000 jobs
SUCCESS: african americans and women
200,000 benefitted from CCC + employment increase
Slum clearance (improving bad neighbourghoods)
Women in prominent gov/society positions
Perkins: Secretary of Labour, key 2nd ND
Eleanor Roosevelt femenist activist
SUCCESSES: agriculture
Millions helped by AAA, FSA, RA, TVA
RA in 2nd NS moved 500,000 families to better working conditions
Prices controlled: profit made
Loans given to farmers
