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What were FDR’s three Rs
Relief
Reform
Recovery.
Relief examples (3)
Bank holiday—closed all banks to investigate
Civil Works Administration—provided Temporary jobs, repairing roads and bridges
Civilian Conservation Corps-Temporary jobs to unmarried single adults filling sand bags and helping disaster stuff
Recovery examples (3)
Agricultural Adjustment Act—taxed food processeurs and have money directly to farms as a payment for not growing food
Home Owners Loan Corp.—gave loans to home owners so they could pay their mortgages, prevents homelessnesses
Tennessee Valley Authority-Agency created to build dams in the Tennessee river valley that provided more stable irrigation.
Reform examples (3)
Social Security Administration—permanent agency designed to ensure that the older segment of society always would have enough money to survive
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation-permanent agency designed to ensure depositors money in saving banks
Securities & Exchange Commission— PERMANENT AGENCY SET UP TO MONITOR STOCK MARKEY ACTIVITY
18th Amendment
Starts prohibition
19th amendment
Gave women right to vote
20th amendment
States that the term commencemnet for Congress is January 3 and for the president is January 20
21st amendment
Repeals 18th amendment
22nd amendment
Limits presidency to two terms
1920 election (who vs who and who won)
Republican-Warren G Harding, Calvin Coolidge
“Return to normalcy” “front porch campaign)
Democrat-James M Cox,FDR
Harding won
1924 election (who vs who and who won)
Rep- Calvin Coolidge, Charles G Dawes
Dem- John W Davis, frank Polk
1928 election (who vs who and who won)
Rep- Herbert Hoover Dem-Alfred smith
-VP Charles Curtis -VP Joseph T Robinson
-Dry -wet
-Rural. -urban
-Traditional Values. -modern values
-Nativism -immigration
Won. Lost
1932 election (who vs who and who won)
Rep-Herbert hoover-lost
Dem-FDR-won
5 impacts of WW1
Economy in 1919-economic recession
Strikes- workers wanted pay increase
Racial unrest-AAs took the jobs of the solider during war and then they come home so AAs loose jobs
The Red Scare- fear of communism in the US
Election of 1920- Harding wins with return to normalcy
Capitalism
An economic and social system in which a countries trade and industry are owned by private owners for profit