FDR New Deal

Question 1

AAA

Answer 1

Agricultural Adjustment Act

• taxed food processors and have money to farmers to stop harvesting crops
• decreased supply so price goes up

Question 2

CWA

Answer 2

Civil Works Administration

- provided temporary jobs repairing roads and bridges

Question 3

CCC

Answer 3

Civilian Conservation Corps
- gave temporary jobs to unmarried adults filling Sand bags and helping out with disaster situations. They lived in barracks

Question 4

FERA

Answer 4

Federal Emergency Relief Act

- gave immediate help to those that needed it in forms of cash payments

Question 5

NIRA

Answer 5

National Industrial Recovery Act

-a consortium of businesses organized by the government and given power to set rules and regulations fir the economy

Question 6

WPA

Answer 6

Works Progress Administration

- provided long term government jobs building schools and other public works projects

Question 7

TVA

Answer 7

Tennessee Valley Authority

-created to builds dams in Tennessee river valley. This provided more stable irrigation and cheap hydroelectric power

Question 8

Glass Steagall Act

Answer 8

Made various banking regulations and created the FDIC

Passed an emergency measure to counter the failure of 5000 banks

Question 9

Wagnor Act

Answer 9

Protect rights to join Union, collective bargaining but prohibits unfair labor practices

Question 10

SSA

Answer 10

Social Security Administration
-permanent agency designed to ensure that the older segment of society always would have enough money to survive. The key here is that they would also be able to spend throughout their lives

Question 11

Court packing plan

Answer 11

expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, allegedly to make it more efficient

Question 12

SEC

Answer 12

Securities and Exchange Commission

- stock market agency to ensure that fraud and insider trading happens

Question 13

How did FDR respond to his critics? What legislation was deemed unconstitutional? How did this hurt his reputation?

Answer 13

Huey Long
-said that new deal advocates the share of wealth program
-the Plan gaurunteed annual income of 5000 dollars. Ppl who make over 5 mil were taxed
Father Coughlin
- he said that there was an international bankers conspiracy and the Jews were responsible
-he advocated nationalization and a living wage
Francis Townsend
-embraced old age relief
-social security and pention

Question 14

What were positives and negatives of the new deal. How did it hurt his reputation

Answer 14

Positives- TVA and CCC

Negatives-AAA and NIRA