New Deal

Question 1

100 days

Answer 1

a “special session” of 100 days in which Roosevelt has almost dictatorial powers to pass laws without the approval of congress.

Question 2

Things FDR needed to do urgently

Answer 2

1. solve the banking crisis
2. Jump start the economy
3. Relief Recovery Reform

Question 3

Alphabet Agencies

Answer 3

Relief Recovery and Reform program to combat the depression

Question 4

AAA

Answer 4

Agriculture Adjustment Administration. Government offered money to slow production to raise the prices of goods

Question 5

CCC

Answer 5

Civilian Conservation Corps. Aimed at unemployed young people 18-25. They did environmental projects

Question 6

PWA

Answer 6

Public Works Administration. Granted $3.3 billion for new government buildings, highways, flood control, and transportation improvements

Question 7

HOLC

Answer 7

Home Owners Loan Corporation. Purchased and refinanced mortgages. in exchange for mortgages they gave government bonds with interest.

Question 8

FCA

Answer 8

Farm Credit Association. refinancing farm mortgages and offering credit under favourable terms.

Question 9

CWA

Answer 9

Civil Works Administration. Created jobs for the unemployed to get over the winter of 1933-34 it gave the unemployed regular wages.

Question 10

FERA

Answer 10

Federal Emergency Relief Administration. A group that decides if someone deserves emergency relief/grants.

Question 11

NRA

Answer 11

National Recovery Administration. Representatives of business, labor, and government would draft agreements, or codes, of “fair” business and labor practices for each of the nation’s major industries.

Question 12

TVA

Answer 12

Tennessee Valley Administration. Building hydroelectric dams. Achieving the unified development of industry, agriculture, flood control, and conservation throughout the entire watershed.

Question 13

3 Rs

Answer 13

Relief Recovery Reform

Question 14

Recovery

Answer 14

Revive economy by getting industry going and people into work again

Question 15

Relief

Answer 15

help those in extreme poverty, feed starving, stop people losing homes. through grants etc.

Question 16

Reform

Answer 16

Making the country better than it was before. eg pensions for old people, unemployment insurance, help for sick and needy

Question 17

Second New Deal

Answer 17

1935-38. Focused more on reform. introduced WPA, Wagner act, Social Security act, Wealth Tax act

Question 18

WPA

Answer 18

Improvement of the PWA. Also focused on promoting American culture through theatre, arts, literature etc.

Question 19

Wagner Act

Answer 19

Allowing workers (except farmers and domestic workers) to form worker unions to have more power against employers

Question 20

Social Security Act 1935

Answer 20

gives retired people over age 65 a continual income after retirement

Question 21

Wealth tax act

Answer 21

to fund for the changes

Question 22

Opposing groups

Answer 22

Republicans, Supreme Court, Businesses, Radical Opposition, States Rights Supporters

Question 23

Why republicans opposed the new deal

Answer 23

too much power too much money given for seemingly menial tasks. WPA = We Piddle Around

Question 24

Why supreme court opposed the new deal

Answer 24

critical of alphabet agencies and were the only ones who could stop them being passed.

Question 25

Why Business Leaders opposed the new deal

Answer 25

With the introduction of trade unions business leaders had to listen more to their workers

Question 26

Who thought the new deal didn’t do enough

Answer 26

Huey Long: taxing the super rich and giving each non super rich family between 4000-5000

Question 27

New deal results: recovery

Answer 27

unemployment falls but budget cuts bring them back up a bit, budget cuts set the US back into recession in 1937 (over reliance). war time helped unemployment more than new deal. banks were no longer failing after the emergency bank act. Economy took longer to recover than European economies. never got back to 1920s levels of wealth.

Question 28

New deal results: relief

Answer 28

quick response gave people hope. FERA helped poor providing $500 Mil. CCC provided young people with jobs. AAA stopped overproduction in farms. However, only 35% of the population actually received relief from the government

Question 29

New deal results: reform

Answer 29

NRA improved working condition including outlawing child labour. Wagner act allowed unions. TVA transformed the area.Social security act and pensions. didn’t do so much on racial issues.

Question 30

New deal results: other

Answer 30

giving the government more power and responsibility for the wellbeing of the people