the new deal Flashcards

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aims

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  • Relief = short term measures to help Americans survive
  • Recovery = longer term/ medium to bring US back up to 1929 levels
  • Reform = long term permanent changes to ensure GD can’t ever happen again
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alphabet agencies

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  • First 100 days
  • Recovery
    o Farm credit administration (FCA)
    o Agricultural Adjustment Agency (AAA)
    o Public Works Administration (PWA)
  • Relief
    o The home owners loan act (HOLC)
    o Civilian Works Act (CWA)
    o Federal emergency relief administration (FERA)
  • Reform
    o The federal securities act
    o National recovery administration (NRA)
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impact on African Americans

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  • Thousands received much more relief than ever before. Around 200,000 blacks benefited from the CCC program and they got a large share of housing in slum-clearance projects. Also, black people were given positions of responsibility in the New Deal administration.
  • 50% unemployment, 25% for white people
  • Whites get higher wage
  • Still Jim Crow laws in the south
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impact on women

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  • Only about 8000 women were included in the CC programme
  • The number of women employed did go up during the 1930s but this was largely because they were cheap labour
  • One area where women did advance was in the New Deal agencies themselves
  • Given positions of responsibilities, running the agencies
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5
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effectiveness of the new deal

- banking system

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  • success
    o Banks re-opened after the banking holiday (The Emergency Banking Relief Act)
    o When banks re-opened 90% deposits were intact
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effectiveness

- agriculture

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o New deal helped agriculture in a significant way
o FDR’s strategy of simply reducing supply workers worked better than Hoover’s
o In 1933 6 million pigs slaughtered as $100 million paid to cotton farmers to plough crops
o As supply dropped, prices rose, however WWII largely helped to fix this problem finally

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effectiveness

- unemployment

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  • to some extent
    o In 1932 unemployment = 25% by 1937 = 13-14%
    o Drop in unemployment till 1937 was a result of the New Deal
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