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.
AgencyProblem Solution How I remembered it AAA CCC DUSTBOWL TVA WPA
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 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.
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. Alphabet Soup
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