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The New Deal Flashcards

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What were the three Rs the New Deal was based upon?

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Relief, recovery and reform

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What was relief?

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Helping to remove poverty

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What was recovery?

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Boosting the economy so people could get jobs

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What was reform?

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Ensuring another economic depression would not happen again

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Over how many banks closed since what date?

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Over 5000 since 1930

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What were the changes Roosevelt introduced in the first 100 days?

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Emergency Banking Act, Economy Act, Beer Act and using the radio to explain his ideas

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What was the Emergency Banking act?

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Banks were closed for a four day bank holiday and only honest, well - run banks could reopen so people could trust them again

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How did the Emergency Banking Act help America recover?

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Well run banks could lend money to well run businesses creating jobs

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What was the Economy Act?

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Where the pay of anyone working in the government, army, navy or airforce was cut by 15%

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How did the Economy Act help America?

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Saved almost a billion dollars which helped the unemployed

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What was the Beer Act?

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Made alcohol legal to sell reducing murders, gangsters and corrupt cops

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How did the Beer Act help America?

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Government could raise money by taking alcohol sold

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What did Roosevelt use the radio for?

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Talk about himself personally to help people trust and relate to him convincing everyone Roosevelt could make a change to America

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What were the alphabet agencies?

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Agencies created as part of the New Deal to combat the Great Depression

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What does HOLC stand for and which of the 3Rs was it?

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Home Owners Loan Corporation, relief as it helped remove poverty

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Who did HOLC aim to help?

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Those who couldn’t keep up with their mortgage payments

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What did HOLC do and how many did it help?

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Loaned money at low rated of interest. Helped 300,000 homeowners in the first year

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What was NRA and which of the 3Rs was it based upon?

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National recovery administration, reform as it ensured welfare provisions were in place

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What group did the NRA aim to help?

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Employed people

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What did the NRA do?

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Encouraged workers to make a code of fair conditions which guaranteed a decent wage and set a limit of hours of work per week

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What was the PWA and which of the 3Rs was it based upon?

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Public Works Administration, based on recovery to boost the economy so people can get jobs

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Who was the PWA for?

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Unemployed and the general population

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How much funds did the PWA give?

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$3.3 billion to buy materials, employ skilled workers and build facilities for the general population

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How many ships and airports did the PWA build?

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10 ships and 50 airports

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Who did the social security act aim to help and which of the 3Rs was it?

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Elderly and widows, relief

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What did the social security act do?

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Allowed the government to provide help for the sick and disabled as workers made a small contribution a week so the unemployed sick and disabled could receive a small amount of benefit

27
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Who did the Wagner act aim to help and which of the 3Rs was it?

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Aimed to help the employed, reform

28
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What did the Wagner act do?

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Forced employers to allow trade unions in their companies and let them negotiate for better work conditions and made it illegal to fire workers for being in a union

29
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Who did the works progress administration aim to help and which of the 3Rs was it?

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Unemployed by creating jobs, recovery

30
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What did the works progress administration do?

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Provided jobs for even office workers and the government paid artists to paint pictures to display in towns and cities to create jobs

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Who did the Resettlement administration aim to help and which of the 3Rs was it?

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Small holders and tenant families, relief

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What did the Resettlement administration do?

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Moved over 500,000 families to better quality housing and land, gave special loans to small farmers in 1937 and built camps for migrant workers

33
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Who opposed to the New Deal?

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Republicans, judge and radical politicians

34
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What did the republicans think of Roosevelt?

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Saw him as a dictator as he controlled many aspects of Americans lives and that the New Deal was interfering too much

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Why was it significant that the judge was concerned the New Deal undermines state law?

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The court was dominated by republicans who extended the role of federal government too far

36
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How did Roosevelt respond to the judge not liking the New Deal?

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Threatened to create six more Supreme Court judges that would support his policies and vote out republican judges

37
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Whose beliefs were similar to the radical politicians and what were they?

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To the democrats who believed Roosevelt wasn’t doing enough

38
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How did African Americans benefited from the New Deal?

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From the slum clearance and housing projects

39
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How many African Americans gained beliefs from who?

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Around 200,000 from the Civilian Conservation Corps and other New Deal agencies

40
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Why did Roosevelt fail to pass laws against lynching black Americans?

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He feared the democrat senators in the southern states wouldn’t support him

41
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Why did many African Americans not benefit form many New Deal agencies?

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They were discriminatory so the blacks either got no work or received worse treatment and wages

42
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How did the New Deal help society?

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Brought Americans faith in the government

43
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How did confidence remain low after the deal?

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Throughout the 1930s, Americans only spent and invested about 75% of what they had before 1929

44
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What did the New Deal manage to cut?

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The number of business failures

45
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How did the New Deal fail to help women?

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Only about 8000 women were involved in the CCC as most programmes only aimed to help male manual workers rather than women

46
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Give an example of how the New Deal helped women

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Eleanor Roosevelt became and important campaigner on social issues

47
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How did the New Deal fail to help unemployment?

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There were 6 million unemployed in 1941 and only the USAs entry to WWII helped to end unemployment

48
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Give some forms of popular culture in the 1930s

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Sport, team work, listening to the radio and cinema

49
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Give an example of how radios were part of the popular culture in the 1930s

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Soap operas were played over time periods like ‘Our Gal Sunday’ was played over a 5 week period through radios

50
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how many homes had radios in what year

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20 million in 1939

51
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Give an example of how cinema was part of popular culture in the 1930s

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‘Swing time’ helped people empathise with characters helping them get over the Great Depression

52
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What popular cultures show continuity with the boom in the American economy?

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Radio affected the boom from mass production and you needed money to buy tickets to watch sports games

53
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How did popular culture develop as a result of the boom?

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People engaged in activities to cheer themselves up and radio was used in Roosevelt’s speeches

54
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How did popular culture show developments within society?

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Shows technology has improved as everyone has a radio

55
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What were most channels on a radio for and did it continue from the boom, developed due to the Great Depression or developed within society after the depression ended?

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Most were commercial stations for advertising goods, this continued from the boom

56
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Why were cars helpful to the development of sport and did this continue from the boom, develop due to the Great Depression or develop within society after the depression ended?

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Cars meant people could travel to the games, continued from the boom

57
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In 1940, what film reflected on the hard times during the Great Depression?

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‘Grapes of wrath’

58
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How did people get over the Depression with the film ‘swing time’?

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Through the lyrics: ‘pick yourself up, dust yourself of and start all over again’

59
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How did sport interest more women and did this continue from the boom, develop due to the Great Depression or develop within society after the depression ended?

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By giving free admissions to women, this developed within society as the Depression ended

60
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What linked radio and sport and did this continue from the boom, develop due to the Great Depression or develop within society after the depression ended?

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As if some people couldn’t travel to a game, they could listen to matches live on their radio, this developed within society after the Depression

GCSE History - USA (16 decks)

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