success or failure new deal Flashcards
how were native americans helped?
the indian recognition act 1934 provided money to help native americans buy and improve land and preserve and practice their culture, traditions and laws
how were native americans not helped?
remained poor and excluded members of society
how did black americans benefit?
from slum clearance projects and housing improvement projects
- around 200,000 blacks were employed by the CCC and other agencies
how were blacks not helped?
either got no work or lower wages or worse treatment
FDR never passed a law to stop lynching, he feared southern democrats would not support him
what was the social security program?
(didn’t help blacks)
designed to help retired workers or widows, but did not include domestic workers, farmers or farm labourers, the jobs most often held by blacks
how many WPA supervisors were black?
11 of 10,000
how was unemployment and the economy helped?
stabilised banks and cut the number of business failures, it created millions of jobs
how were the unemployed and the economy not helped?
by 1935 still 10.6 mill unemployed
by 1941 still 6 mill
only entry into WW2 stopped unemployment
how much did americans spend in the 1930s?
75% of what they had before in 1929
underlying problems like wealth distribution never solved
economy took longer to recover than most European companies
