USA history

• CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)

  - Created in March 1933

  - Recruited unemployed men (Aged 17-24) to work in national forests, parks and other public areas

  - The scheme provided food, shelter and a small wage for the workers
• AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Administration)


  - Created in May 1933

  - Increased farmers income and helped farmers with mortgage payments

  - Paid them to produce less food, plough less land or reduce their livestock

  - Any loss of profit was made up by government subsidies
• FERA (Federal Emergency Relief Administration)


  - Created in May 1933

  - Gave quick relief to the hungry and homeless

  - Provided soup kitchens, clothing allowance and employment schemes
• TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)


  - Created in May 1933

  - Constructed 20 dams around the river Tennessee which went through 7 states to help prevent the dust bowl and flooding

  - Created hydroelectric power in areas where farms rarely had electricity

  - Planted trees in the areas to improve the soil quality
• PWA (Public Works Administration)

  - Created in June 1933

  - Created long term employment schemes (built new schools, hospitals, airports, dams, bridges etc)

  - Created jobs for skilled workers

  - Increased trade in raw materials
• NRA (National Recovery Administration)

  - Created in June 1933

  - Attempted to help workers and employers

  - Improved working conditions

  - Created maximum working hours, minimum wages and abolished child labour

  - Gave people the rights to join a trade union
• CWA (Civil Works Administration)


  - Created in November 1933

  - Provided emergency relief during the winter of 1933-34

  - Created work projects improving roads, schools, airports etc

  - Cleared up parks
• WPA (Works Progress Administration)


  - Created in 1935

  - Built roads, schools and other public buildings and created community schemes

  - Artists, writers, photographers and actors also benefited

  - Employed many people for 1 year and provided them with fair wages
• RA (The Resettlement Agency)

  - Created in 1935

  - Followed on from the AAA

  - Helped those who had been resettled due to loosing farm jobs

  - Aimed to help 500,000 families to get better land and re-settle into new homes
• Fireside Chats


  -Started 12th March 1933

  -Radio broadcasts every Sunday

  -60 million listeners
• Emergency Banking Act


  -5th March 1933

  -Closed all banks

  -Government had to check if they could be reopened

  -over 5000 were reopened
• Economy Act


  -March 20th 1933

  -Government workers and army had 15% pay cut

  -Saved $1 bn
• Beer Act


  -March 22nd 1933

  -Ends prohibition

  -Creates loads of jobs in brewing, bars etc.
• SER (Securities Exchange Commission)


  -Regulated speculation

  -No gambling on the stock market

  -People felt more secure investing money
• Wagner Act


  -July 1935

  -Helped workers join trade unions

  -Businesses didn't like it - said it 'restricted economic growth
• SSA (social security act)

  -August 1935

  -Gave pensions to over 65s

  -Money to mothers and disabled

  -No money to blacks or women labourers
• Huey Long


  Who was the governor of Louisiana who didnt think the New Deal did enough?
• Townsend, pensions


  Who was the doctor who though the new deal didnt do enough (surname), and what in particular did he have an issue with?
• Republicans


  What political party opposed FDR and his new deal?
• FSA (Farm security administration)


  -January 1937

  -Replaced RA

  -gave loans to farmers to buy land

  -helped migrant workers

  -some farmers wanted land quicker
• Business corporations


  thought the new deal did too much as they didnt like or benefit from trade unions
• AAA


  what did the supreme court ban in 1936?
• NRA


  what did the supreme court ban in May 1935?
• 200,000


  How many black people benefited from the CCC?
• Indian Reservation Act


  What act made sure Native Americans could buy land and practise their traditions?
• 8,000


  How many women were in the CCC?
• recession


  What happened when the budget for the new deal was cut?
• 1937


  When was the budget for the new deal cut?
• $16 billion


  how much was spent on the first new deal?
• isolationist


  america was this, meaning they kept away from outside issues
• hire purchase credit


  'buy now, pay later' what this was
• Laissez faire


  (no hyphen) to no to interfere, therefore business men were left alone
• production line


  set up in 1913 by Henry Ford, made production quicker
• republicans


  the party in government between 1920-32
• trusts


  huge super corporations that dominated american business (eg. Rockefeller, Carnegie)
• new industries


  chemicals, plastics, electrical goods making money in america
• tariffs


  put tax on imported goods, meant they were expensive in the USA
• Fordney McCumber Act


  (no -) an example of a tariff
• 9 million in 1919, 26 million in 1929


  car output increase from 1919 to 1929 (how much in 1919 then how much in 1929)
• $22 bn in 1919, $13bn 1928


  how much US farm income dropped between 1919 to 1928 (how much in 1919 then how much in 1929)