Ch. 15 A New Deal Fights the Depression

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 Established the FDIC 2. Glass-Steagall Banking Act 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 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 Built and repaired dams and other projects in the Tennessee Valley 6. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) • 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) To reduce unemployment Provided 4 million immediate jobs

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. Soil Conservation and domestic Allotment Act, Resettlement Act, Farm Security Administration, Rural Electrification, Administration Soil depletion, inability to buy land, squalid housing, dust storms, debt, foreclosures, lack of electricity Poverty, Unemployment, hopelessness, loss of dignity, lack of spending money Works Progress Administration, National Youth Administration 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 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 Life among Southern during the Civil War Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, (Margaret Mitchell) Honest, kindhearted people winning out over greedy special interests. Film 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 Two stern faced-faced farmers; rural life during the Depression Grant Wood

8. Standards for wages and hours; ban on child labor; rights to organize and bargain collectively; government mediation on labor disputes. Wagner Act; Fair Labor Standards Act; National Labor Relations Board Aid to farmers, farm price supports, taught contour plowing, terracing, crop rotation Agricultural Adjustment Acts, Soil Conservation Service 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.