New Deal Chart - Jamestown School District

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The First New Deal – Alphabet Soup

Name of

Program

Emergency Banking

Relief Act

What It Did Goal

Relief,

Recovery

Civilian

Conservation

Corps (CCC)

Federal Emergency

Relief

Administration

(FERA)

Agricultural

Adjustment Act

(AAA)

Allowed well-run banks to reopen and closed troubled banks. This build up trust in the country’s banks again.

Very popular program where 2.5 million young people were hired to plant trees, build levees for flood control, and improve parks for $30 per month. Did not make a serious dent in unemployment and some minorities were excluded.

Pumped $500 million into states relief payments and food for the unemployed.

Relief

Relief

Recovery

Tennessee Valley

Authority (TVA)

National Recovery

Administration

(NRA)

Public Works

Administration

(PWA) sought to raise farm prices and control production of farm goods. Paid farmers to NOT grow crops in some fields.

This lowered supply and drove up prices. Farmers incomes rose 50% during the first three years of the New Deal, but Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional for invading the states’ reserved powers

Built hydroelectric power plants and flood control dams in seven states in the

Tennessee River region.

Set up voluntary agreements among businesses to cut excess production. The agreements covered production, prices, wages, and hours of work.

Provided government money to people to spend on industrial projects such as dams, sewers,

Recovery,

Relief

Recovery,

Reform

Relief,

Recovery

Federal Deposit

Insurance

Corporation

(FDIC)

Securities and

Exchange

Commission (SEC)

Civil Works

Administration

(CWA) and ports. Did not have enough money to be successful despite spending $6 billion in six years

Protected people’s bank deposits, thus eliminating the problem of “bank runs” that were a serious problem in the early 1930s.

Created to supervise the stock market and protect investors from dishonest practices. put 2.6 million men to work in its first month. Within two months it employed four million men building 250,000 miles of road, 40,000 schools,

150,000 privies, and 3,700 playgrounds. In March 1934, however, Roosevelt scrapped the CWA because he (like

Hoover) did not want to run a budget deficit or to create a permanent dependent class.

Reform

Reform

Recovery,

Relief

The Second New Deal

Public Works

Administration

(PWA);

Works Progress

Administration

(WPA)

National Labor

Relations Act

Social Security

Act

Created jobs for millions of unemployed people constructing roads, hospitals, post offices, parks, and many other projects. The WPA also included a program that hired out-of-work artists, photographers, actors, and writers for a wide range of artistic and educational projects.

Gave labor unions the right to organize and represent workers in collective bargaining.

Created a federal system of old-age pensions and assistance for orphans and the disabled. It also created an unemployment insurance system.

Relief,

Recovery

Reform

Relief,

Reform

Fair Labor

Standards Act

Set up the first national minimum wage law and abolished child labor.

Reform

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