1. Ch. 15 A New Deal Fights the Depression
The Americans

2. Federal Programs Business Assistance and Reform
1. Emergency Banking Relief Act
To restore public confidence in banks
2. Glass-Steagall Banking Act
Established the FDIC
3. Federal Securities Act
Required corporations to
provide complete information
on all stock offerings
To restore public confidence in the stock market
4. National Industrial Recovery
Act (NIRA)
Set prices, established labor standards
To ensure fair business practices and to promote industrial growth

3. Federal Programs Farm Relief and Rural Development Employment Projects
5. Agricultural Adjustment Act
(AAA)
Paid farmers to lower production
To raise crop prices and restore farm income
To create prosperity in the impoverished Tennessee Valley
6. Tennessee Valley Authority
(TVA)
Built and repaired dams and other projects in the Tennessee Valley
Employment Projects
Put young men to work on road building and conservation projects
To reduce unemployment
7. Civilian Conservation Corps
(CCC)
8. Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
Provided direct relief for the needy
To provide for the basic needs of the people hit hardest by the Depression
9. Public Works Administration (PWA)
Provided money to states to create jobs
To reduce unemployment
10. Civil Works Administration (CWA)
Provided 4 million immediate jobs
To reduce unemployment

4. Federal Programs
Housing
11. Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)
To help families keep their homes
Provided government loans to homeowners who faced foreclosure
Explain who Huey Long was and why he is a significant historical figure.
Huey Long as a spokesman for the poor; a governor of Louisiana and later it’s U.S. Senator; and early supporter of the New Deal who turned against Roosevelt. His Share the Wealth proposal was extremely popular nationwide. He was assassinated in 1935 at the height of his popularity.

5. Works Progress Administration, National Youth Administration
Soil depletion, inability to buy land, squalid housing, dust storms, debt, foreclosures, lack of electricity
Soil Conservation and domestic Allotment Act, Resettlement Act, Farm Security Administration, Rural Electrification, Administration
Poverty, Unemployment, hopelessness, loss of dignity, lack of spending money
Works Progress Administration, National Youth Administration
Poverty, Unemployment, hopelessness, loss of dignity, lack of spending money
Works Progress Administration
Poverty, Unemployment, hopelessness, loss of dignity, lack of spending money
Works Progress Administration, National Youth Administration, Wagner Act, Fair Labor Standards Act
Poverty, Unemployment, hopelessness, loss of dignity, lack of spending money
Social Security Act
Poverty, Unemployment, hopelessness, loss of dignity, lack of spending money
Social Security Act
She traveled the country to observe the conditions; helped shape New Deal policies; prodded her husband to appoint women to governmental positions; was a great advocate for the people.

6. Women appointed to important federal positions, slight increase in the number of women working outside the home.
Discrimination in the workplace; discriminatory wages; discriminatory hiring practices.
Frances Perkins
Increased political voice through greater access to the president; organizations created for tenant farmers.
Segregation; racial violence; discrimination in all areas of life.
Mary McLeod Bethune; William H. Hastie; Robert C. Weaver
Better working conditions; increased bargaining power; dramatic increase in union membership.
Strike violence; big business opposition to labor unions.
Congress of Industrial Organization
New Deal labor laws and work-relief programs aided many of them; Roosevelt made a direct and persuasive appeals to them; Roosevelt appointed many officials of urban-immigrant backgrounds.
Southern whites; various urban groups; immigrants; various religious and ethnic groups
Collier was commissioner of Indian Affairs and a strong advocate of Native American rights; he helped to create the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, which restored some reservation lands to tribal ownership.

7. Film Life among Southern during the Civil War
Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, (Margaret Mitchell)
Life among Southern during the Civil War
Film
Honest, kindhearted people winning out over greedy special interests.
Created by: Frank Capra
Radio drama or book
Martian invasion of Earth
Orson Welles
Play
Labor struggles of the 1930’s
Clifford Odets
Difficulties faced by a young man trying to survive in a racist world.
Novel (book)
Richard Wright
Novel (book)
Difficulties of Oklahomans who leave the Dust Bowl for California
John Steinbeck
Play
Warmth and beauty of small-town life in New England.
Thorton Wilder
Painting
Grant Wood
Two stern faced-faced farmers; rural life during the Depression

8. Wagner Act; Fair Labor Standards Act; National Labor Relations Board
Standards for wages and hours; ban on child labor; rights to organize and bargain collectively; government mediation on labor disputes.
Agricultural Adjustment Acts, Soil Conservation Service
Aid to farmers, farm price supports, taught contour plowing, terracing, crop rotation
Securities and Exchange Commission; Glass-Steagall Banking Act; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Monitoring of the stock market; federal enforcement of laws regarding the sale of stocks and bonds; insurance on bank accounts
Federal government's acceptance of some responsibility for the social welfare or it’s citizens; old-age insurance program; unemployment compensation system; programs to aid families with dependent children and the disabled.
Social Security Act
Civilian conservation Corps; Soil Conservation Service; Taylor Grazing Act; Tennessee Valley Authority
Programs protecting the nation’s natural resources, including farmland; prevention of floods and dust storms; more national parks and wildlife refugees; pollution.