FDR's policies

Question 1

when and what were the 100 days

Answer 1

9th March - 16th June 1933

he asked congress to give him special powers as if it was a war and they granted this

Question 2

what was the first new deal

Answer 2

• rapid, national action
• federal government took over policy-making of individual states
• federal institutions created were temporary
• some plans could only happen with federal agency co-ordinating activities in several states (alphabet agencies)

Question 3

national recovery administration (NRA)

Answer 3

• enforce codes of practice for businesses
• fixing working hours and minimum wage
• didn’t have to join
• public encouraged to support businesses that displayed NRA symbol in shop window
• people thought it was unconstitutional

Question 4

agricultural adjustment agency (AAA)

Answer 4

• regulate major crops grown in the USA
• purchased surplus crops at good prices and subsidised farmers who were told not to grow crops that were being overproduced
• up to 6 million farmers participated in it
• total farm income almost doubled that in 1930

Question 5

Tennessee valley authority (TVA)

Answer 5

• administered public work projects in the states that included the Tennessee river
• e.g. construction of immense dams that utilised the river for power and reservoirs
• argued that construction of atomic bomb in WW2 would not have been possible without TVA water power at Oak Ridge

Question 6

civilian conservation corps (CCC)

Answer 6

• enrolled young men and boys needing work
• set tasks only government could undertake like re-forestation, flood control projects and building dams
• up to 3 million young men joined the CCC

Question 7

federal emergency relief administration (FERA)

Answer 7

• designed to meet broader needs of the nation
• provide direct aid for the unemployed
• had 500 million dollars available for the purpose
• part of FERA was the civilian works administration (CWA) although it didn’t work as well as other measures and so was replaced by the works progress administration

Question 8

works progress administration (WPA)

Answer 8

• give work to the unemployed all over the nation
• gigantic and entirely unprecedented undertaking
• provided jobs for 8 million through