New Deal Quiz
OBJECTIVES
Students will be able to demonstrate
comprehension of the New Deal by
answering literal and inferential questions.
Homework
1. New Deal Worksheet Due Tuesday!
2. Collect Wednesday’s Homework.
Agency
AAA
CCC
DUSTBOWL
TVA
WPA
Problem
Solution
How I remembered it
Alphabet Soup
1. FDIC- Check banks and protect accounts. Roosevelt now said it was
safe to keep your money in a reopened bank. Created the Banking Act
of 1933.
2. WPA- Biggest agency; millions of people were put to work in
construction projects (schools, libraries, hospitals, roads). Musicians
were hired to give lessons, writers and artists and actors were hired.
3. SSA-It set up a form of insurance where workers would pay the tax
to cover unemployment benefits, old age pensions, programs for the
blind, and for children of workers who had died.
Alphabet Soup
4. AAA- Paid farmers to grow less by farming fewer acres created
it. This would increase farm prices.
5. PWA- Provided money for construction projects (roads, dams,
bridges,…). It gave people jobs so that they had money to spend.
6. TVA- It improved the economy of the south; built and fixed
dams so that electricity could be brought to the region; provided
reliable supply of water for irrigation, drinking and recreation;
provided energy to the Tennessee Valley area
Alphabet Soup
7. NRA- Helped businesses and workers earn money. These rules set
prices, production wages, and working conditions.
8. CCC- Employed thousands of young men in camps across the
country improving lands by planting trees, clearing trails,…
9. HOLC- Provided homeowners with low cost loans.
Alphabet Soup
10. NYA- Provided jobs for young people.
11. FCA- Provided low cost farm loans.
12. NLRB- Set up by the Wagner Act, this agency strengthened labor
unions by outlawing unfair labor practices. Employers had to
bargain with unions or keep workers from joining unions. The
board watched over business to ensure collective bargaining.
Notes
Financial Programs
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
– Insured individual bank deposits
• Securities and Exchange Commission
– Regulated trading practices in stocks and bonds
The First New Deal: Recovery
•
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)- Helped unemployed young men
•
Agriculture Adjustment Act (AAA)- Helped farmers by paying them not to
grow crops
•
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)- Helped business by requiring that
businesses in the same industry cooperate with each other to set
prices and output; Started Public Works Administration (PWA);
Labor received federal protection for the right to organize.
•
Federal Securities Act- Helped investors, restored confidence in the
markets
•
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
•
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)- Helped build dams and other projects
along the Tennessee River and its tributaries
The Second New Deal
New government programs that resulted in some strong successes for President
Roosevelt.
1. WPA: Works Progress Administration
2. Social Security
3. Wagner Act [NLRB Act]
4. Wealth Tax
repackage?
Resources Needed
1. 5 colourful pieces of card containing a problem faced
by Roosevelt on one side and the solution in the form of an
Alphabet Agency on the other, relating to
The AAA, CCC, Dustbowl, TVA, WPA
2. A McDonald’s Happy Meal box re-labelled with a ‘New
Deal’ sticker (to show how we can ‘re-package’ ideas)
3. Felt pens and paper
WPA Posters