UNIT 4 (USA 1918-41) - 11-12

Question 1

How did Rural Electrification benefit farmers

Answer 1

Farmers could modernize their farms with loans

Question 2

What was applied in farmers’ houses

Answer 2

Electrical appliances (e.g. cookers, fridges) were installed and also in installed in other rural communities with loans from the EHFA

Question 3

What was the EHFA

Answer 3

The Electric Home and Farm Authority gave loans to apply electrical equipment

Question 4

How were farmers using the electricity

Answer 4

To use modern methods of farming (e.g. electric brooders for chickens), making farming quicker, cheaper, and more efficient

Question 5

Why didn’t utility companies want to supply electricity to farms

Answer 5

Since they were rural, it wasn’t profitable for them

Question 6

What percentage of farms had electricity in the 1930s

Answer 6

10%

Question 7

What did the REA do

Answer 7

The Rural Electrification Administration gave loans to give farms electricity

Question 8

How much electricity was in farms by 1945

Answer 8

40%

Question 9

What were the 3 R’s

Answer 9

Recovery, Reform, and Relief

Question 10

What did FDR do for Recovery

Answer 10

Farm incomes rose, banks reopened, unemployment fell by 3 million

Question 11

What did FDR do for Relief

Answer 11

WPA, Social Security Act, 35% of people received governmental relief

Question 12

What did FDR do for Reform

Answer 12

Social Security Act, unions, rural electrification, financial regulation