(Roosevelt and the First New Deal, 1933-1935) Alphabet Agencies Flashcards
How many Alphabet Agencies were set up to deal with recovery and relief from the Depression?
16
What Alphabet Agency was directed for farmers?
Agricultural Adjustment Agency, 1933.
The Agricultural Adjustment Agency was set up for farmers in 1933.
What did it do?
Paid farmers to produce less to tackle overproduction.
Evaluate the Agricultural Adjustment Agency, set up for farmers in 1933.
(3)
Prices increased & total farm income rose.
Contentious issues like the slaughter of 6 million pigs.
Caused problems later on.
One of the ways the Agricultural Adjustment Agency, set up for farmers in 1933, was successful was due to the increase in prices and total farm income.
Give evidence of this.
Price of cotton - 6.5 to 10 cents per pound.
Total farm income - $4.5 billion 1932 to $6.9 billion 1934.
What Alphabet Agency was directed for industry?
The National Industry Recovery Act that set up the National Recovery Administration.
The National Industry Recovery Act set up the National Recovery Administration to help industry.
What did it do?
Firms that participated agreed to codes of practice like good working conditions & product standards.
What TWO Alphabet Agencies were directed for public works?
The National Industry Recovery Act that set up the Public Works Administration.
The Civilian Conservation Corps
The National Industry Recovery Act set up the Public Works Administration to help public works.
What did it do?
Funded with $3.3 billion to pump priming.
The hope was that spending on public works like road building would stimulate the economy & create permanent jobs.
The Public Works Administration was given $3.3 billion to pump priming.
What does this mean?
Pumping government money in to get things working again.
The National Industry Recovery Act that set up the Public Works Administration to help public works.
Evaluate this.
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Many workers ended up unemployed again after contracts ended.
Offered temporary relief but less successful in long term recovery.
What did Roosevelt feel about the Conservation Civilian Corps, set up to help public works?
It was his proudest agency.
The Civilian Conservation Corps was set up to help public works.
What did it do?
By 1935, 500,000 young men were given useful jobs such as tree conservation in national parks.
The Civilian Conservation Corps was set up to help public works. It gave lots of men jobs.
What about women?
Eleanor Roosevelt was very active in government and set up the ‘She, she, she’ - the female alternative to CCC.
What was the aim of the Tennessee Valley Authority of 1933?
How was this done?
Improved areas surrounding the River Tennessee that were heavily affected by the Depression.
Built 20 huge dams, producing hydroelectric power & developing ecological schemes.
