(The New Deal & the economy) Impact of New Deal on national infrastructure

Question 1

What is infrastructure?

Answer 1

Basic physical and organisational structures and facilities

Question 2

What were the alphabet agencies a significant part of transforming?

Answer 2

Infrastructure

Question 3

How did the Works Progress Administration help transform infrastructure?
(3)

Answer 3

Between 1935 and 1943, workers built 5,900 schools, 350 airports and 570,000 miles of road.

Question 4

How did the Civilian Conservation Corps help transform infrastructure?
(4)

Answer 4

Development of National & State Parks, roads, planting trees and new tourist facilities.

Question 5

How did the Tennessee Valley Authority help transform infrastructure?

Answer 5

Built dams, transforming and modernising the lives of many Americans via electricity.

Question 6

Where were new industries encouraged to relocate?

What did this do?

Answer 6

Rural areas

By 1941, 40% of American farmers had access to electricity - 90% by 1950.

Question 7

By the end of the New Deal, what 3 things had been drastically changed?

Answer 7

Road network
School system
Hospital provision