New Deal America

Question 1

CCC

Answer 1

> employed 2.5million 18-25year old’s
employed 10,000 women
employed 200,000 Black American’s
majority of employed were single white men
Helped to fix the problem of 25%unemployed

Question 2

CWA

Answer 2

> Employed 4million
Built schools, airports &150,000 public toilets
32,000Km of sewers which helped the steel industry

Question 2

FERA

Answer 2

> Gave $500 Million to states for the homeless

>Money went towards: soup kitchens, blankets, clothes and nursery schools

Question 3

TVA

Answer 3

> Built 21 hydroelectric dams in 10 years

Question 4

AAA

Answer 4

> Paid farmers to produce less and also destroy food
wages doubled for famers between 1933-39
critiqued heavily& later banned by the Supreme Court for being unethical

Question 5

EBA

Answer 5

> closed banks for 4days
inspected them and lent money to trustworthy banks so they could reopen
$1billion invested was given to the trustworthy banks

Question 6

Roosevelts 3 Rs:

Answer 6

Recovery, Reform, Relief

Question 7

Did civil rights get improved?

Answer 7

Not until after the 1948 desegregation of Army and Navy