USA: Roosevelt and the New Deal

Question 1

Roosevelt’s aims

Question 2

Roosevelt’s measures: The Hundred Days

Question 3

Roosevelt’s measures (alphabet agencies): TVA

Question 4

Roosevelt’s measures (alphabet agencies): NRA

Answer 4

• Worked with major industries to create nation-wide rules and codes
• Set quotas on production, controlled prices, set wages, limited work hours, banned child labour, gave workers better union rights.

Question 5

Roosevelt’s measures (alphabet agencies): AAA

Answer 5

• Created measures to limit crop production using quotas
• Offered subsidies to farmers who limited production - e.g. paid $11 per acre a farmer didn’t use
• Quotas did not rely on cooperation from farmers - instead, they were enforced by heavy taxation on sales above the quota.

Question 6

Roosevelt’s measures (alphabet agencies): CCC

Question 7

Roosevelt’s measures (alphabet agencies): FERA

Answer 7

• Provided relief payments for the unemployed
• Created unskilled jobs for the unemployed to alleviate household unemployment
• Ensured that the federal relief funds sent out added to state relief spending rather than replacing it

Question 8

The second New Deal: WPA

Answer 8

• Employed around 8 million
• Demonstrated how much the government was willing to spend to help its citizens

Question 9

The second New Deal: welfare

Question 10

Impact of Social Security Act

Question 11

Impact of Wagner Act

Answer 11

• Offered federal protection to unions: A national labour relations board was set up which supervised union negotiations and defended fired workers as well as helped unions gain recognition from employers
• Strengthened labour unions - workers became legally entitled to join unions and could operate closed shops. Unfair practices such as company unions and firing union workers were banned.

Question 12

Impact of Banking Act (1935)

Question 13

Impact of rural electrification

Question 14

Achievements of the New Deal

Question 15

Shortcomings of the New Deal