New Deal 2

Question 1

How much unemployment there was?

Answer 1

20%

Question 2

When was the second new deal created ?

Answer 2

1935-1937

Question 3

What was the Wagner Act?

Answer 3

Made it illegal to sack workers for being in a union

7m union members by 1936

Question 4

The social security act?

Answer 4

State pensions for widows and elderly ( 65)

Allowed state goverment to work w/ federal gov

Question 5

Work progress adminitration ( WPA)

Answer 5

Create jobs for office workers & unemployment
2m ppl- roads, schools
7% of budget

Question 6

Resettlement admin

Answer 6

Followed wok from AAA
500,000 families better quality of land & housing
Helped tenants not helped by AAA

Question 7

The new deal does to much

Answer 7

• hight taxes- discourged ppl from working hard and gave £ to ppl for doing nothing
• roosevelt - behaving like a dictator
• scehemes- unfair competition for priv companies

Question 8

Doesnt do enough?

Answer 8

Catholic priest - father coughlin - used his radio programme to attack roosevelt
Dr Francis Towansed- campaigned for a pension of 200 per month for ppl over 60
Huey Long- taxed big corporations & business in Louisana
- used money to build roads, schools… ( employed AA)
,any americans remained poor

Question 9

Legal opposition to new deal?

Answer 9

Does TOO much

Scheler Poultry corporation found guilty of breaking NRA regulation

Question 10

Businness opposition

Answer 10

Does TOO much
Higher taxes
Interventionistsf

Question 11

Political Opostition

Answer 11

TOO MUCH

FDR- wants to add 9 more judges - 15 in total (1937)