1. The United States during the 1930s.
The New Deal
The New Deal
The United States during the 1930s.
Debbie Donnelly, Kirkland H.S. and Jim Birney, Fife Education

2. The Background – early 1930s
During President Hoover’s government the Depression was in full swing. Unemployment was at 13 million, industries were closed, farms repossessed and the Dust Bowl was disastrous, banks shut down and the stock market had major difficulties.
People couldn’t find work anywhere so the government had to act.
People searched the newspapers for job adverts.

3. Hoover lost the 1933 presidential election and was succeeded by
The Background 2
Hoover lost the 1933 presidential election and was succeeded by

4. The Background 3
A man who was to become one of the most successful and well liked presidents of all time
Find out more about him.

5. The Background
Roosevelt soon came to the conclusion that a massive change in the American way of life was needed to tackle the problems.
What was needed was a
“The nation asks for action and action now.”
New Deal
“Our greatest primary task is to put people to work.”

6. A “New Deal” for America
A Nation on the road to recovery…
“I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American People.”
-FDR 1932
Created by
Stacy Van Zummeren 2005

7. Find out more - Internet.
Destitute
Alphabet Agencies
Industry
The New Deal
Farming
Stock Market
Banking
Find out more - Internet.

8. FHA
NYA
FCA
USHA
FCIC
“Alphabet Soup”
FERA
FCC
CCC
AAA
REA
PWA
HOLC

9. F E R A
Federal
Emergency
Relief
Administration

10. Provided people with the things they needed to survive… food clothing
money

11. CCC Civilian Conservation Corps
Took needy young men off the streets and put them to work in forests and national parks
-carved out roads and hiking trails
-cleaned up beaches
-cleared camping areas
Many of these are still in use today - look for the CCC signs!

12. CCC was also responsible for
helping to end the horrible conditions of the Dust Bowl by planting over 2 million trees in a wide belt from Texas up to the Dakotas.
These trees helped keep the topsoil in place.

13. WPA
Works Progress Administration
Provided jobs for 2 million workers

14. Slum clearance
Construction
of school
and
hospital buildings
Flood control
Rural
electrification

15. Federal Art Project photographers writers painters performers
sculptors

16. Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Tennessee Valley Authority
Created in 1933 to ease economic hardship in the Tennessee River Valley (Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia)
Taught better farming methods
Replanted trees
Built dams

17. AAA
Agricultural
Adjustment
Association

18. NRA
National
Recovery
Act

19. HOLC
Home Owners Loan Corporation

20. Did it all work?
What happened next?

22. Resources
Turck, Mary C. The Dirty Thirties. Logan: Perfection Learning Corporation, 2002.
“New Deal.” World Book Encyclopedia. 14th volume
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