The New Deal

Question 1

What was the AAA?

Answer 1

Agricultural adjustment act

Question 2

What did the AAA do?

Answer 2

Paid farmers to grow less crops so that the prices would go up

Question 3

What was destroyed during the AAA and why was this criticised?

Answer 3

Some food was also destroyed (6 million piglets killed)

People thought this was wrong when Americans were starving

Question 4

Between 1932 and 1935 how much did total farming income

Rise by?

Answer 4

$4.5 billion to $6.9 billion

Question 5

What was FERA?

Answer 5

Federal Emergency Relief Administration

Question 6

What did FERA do?

Answer 6

Had $500 million to be used to help unemployment in each state run by Harry Hopkins

Question 7

What was the problem with FERA?

Answer 7

Some of the unemployed were poorly treated e.g. Made to stand in long queues in very hot weather

Question 8

What was the CWA?

Answer 8

Civil Works Administration

Question 9

What did the CWA do?

Answer 9

Set up to provide emergency help in the winter of 1933

Question 10

How many people worked on buildings projects In the CWA?

Answer 10

4 million before it was closed down in spring

Question 11

What was the CCC?

Answer 11

Civilian Conservation Crops

Question 12

What did the CCC do?

Answer 12

Gave unemployed men ages 17-24 work in national forests and parks

3 million men involved in total, gave experience and training

Question 13

How many trees did the CCC plant?

Answer 13

1.3 billion

Question 14

What were the men of the CCC given?

Answer 14

Lived in camps, given food, shelter and a small wage

Question 15

What was the negative of the CCC?

Answer 15

It mostly helped white men

Question 16

What was the NRA?

Answer 16

National Recovery Administration

Question 17

Why was the NRA set up?

Answer 17

To help improve working conditions e.g. Fair wages, get rid of children working

Question 18

What did the NRA do?

Answer 18

Wrote 557 codes that businesses were meant to follow

Question 19

What was the PWA?

Answer 19

Public Works Administration

Question 20

What did the PWA do?

Answer 20

Had $3.3 billion to spend on buildings projects to provide jobs

Question 21

How many roads and schools was the PWA responsible for building?

Answer 21

50,000 miles of road

13,000 schools

Question 22

What is the WPA?

Answer 22

Works Progress Administration

Question 23

What was the WPA set up to do?

Answer 23

Provide work through projects

Question 24

How many people did WPA help at a time and how long for?

Answer 24

Usually had about 2 million workers at a time with a 1 year contract

Question 25

What was the TVA?

Answer 25

Tennessee Valley Authority

Question 26

What was the TVA’s purpose?

Answer 26

1933 One of the biggest Schemes

Wanted to build 20 dams through Tennessee to make the land better for farming

Question 27

What was a bonus of the TVA?

Answer 27

Put hydroelectric power into an area with little electricity before

Question 28

What the the HOLC?

Answer 28

Home Owners Land Corporation

Question 29

What did the HOLC do?

Answer 29

Gave loans to home buyers

300,000 were given each year so people could afford to buy homes

Question 30

What was the Social Security Act?

Answer 30

Gave old age pensions and unemployment money for the first time
Helped the disabled and children in need

Question 31

What were the unemployment benefits of the Social Security Act?

Answer 31

$18 a week for 16 weeks

Question 32

What was the national labour relations act?

Answer 32

1935

Replaces the NRA
Protected workers rights to Join a trade union

Question 33

What was the soil conservation act?

Answer 33

1935
Replaced AAA
Allowed government to continue subsidising farmers

Question 34

What is the national housing act?

Answer 34

Proved loans to buy houses

Reduced excessive rent