Roosevelt and the New Deal

Question 1

What were the first 100 days of Roosevelt’s presidency?

Answer 1

Special meetings with congress that saw the foundations of the New Deal being laid

Question 2

What was the Agricultural Adjustment Act?

Answer 2

An act introduced to solve overproduction

Question 3

What was the Tennessee Valley Authority?

Answer 3

The TVA was an alphabet agency that provided relief to the poverty stricken Tennessee Valley

Question 4

What was the National Recovery Agency

Answer 4

An alphabet agency that aimed to increase the amount of public work

Question 5

When was the First Deal

Answer 5

1933-1935

Question 6

What were the aims of the First New Deal

Answer 6

• To save Capitalism
• Industrial recovery
• Create jobs and stimulate the economy

Question 7

What was FERA

Answer 7

Federal Emergency Relief Authority

Allocated $500,000,000 to help those in need

Question 8

What did FERA do

Answer 8

• Set up the CWA during the winter of 1933-34

- Helped build thousands of roads and public buildings and helped many adults learn to read

Question 9

What was the CCC

Answer 9

• Civilian Conservation Corps

- Programme was set up by the military and offered work to 18-25 year olds for 6 months to 2 years

Question 10

What did the CCC do

Answer 10

• Took 250,000 people off of the unemployment list
• Built 125,000 roads, 46,000 bridges and planted 3 billion trees
• Lasted until 1942 and employed 3 million men

Question 11

What did the NRA do

Answer 11

• Issued a code of practices to each industry and tried to encourage fair competition
• Banned child labour for those under 16
• Given $3.3 billion to invest in companies who took up the practices
• Many codes proved to be impractical and impossible to enforce

Question 12

What was the PWA

Answer 12

• Second half of the NRA for industrial recovery

- Gave $3.3 billion to spend on roads, schools, dams and hospitals

Question 13

What did the PWA do

Answer 13

• 13,000 schools built along 50,000 miles of road
• Millions of dollars pumped into the American Economy
• Ickes was obsessively tightfisted and spent only $110 million of the $3.3 billion allocated

Question 14

What was the CWA

Answer 14

-Created in November 1933 using $400 million grant from the PWA

Question 15

What did the CWA do

Answer 15

• Built or improved 500,000 miles of roads, 40,000 schools and over 3,500 playgrounds
• Employed 50,000 teachers
• Put $700 million dollars into general circulation
• CWA was closed in March 1934

Question 16

What did the TVA do

Answer 16

• Used the Tennessee River which ran through the 7 poorest states to make the area more prosperous and provide electricity to farms in the area
• Raised the income of people in the Valley by 200% from 1929-49

Question 17

What did the AAA do

Answer 17

• Aimed at addressing the issue of overproduction
• Removed 10.4 million acres of land in 1934 and 30.3 million by 1935
• Total farm income rose from $4.5 billion in 1932 to $6.9 billion in 1935
• Government bought 8.3 million cattle and ranchers agreed to reduce breeding by 20%