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The New Deal: The Works Progress Administration

The New Deal: The Works Progress Administration. The New Deal. FDR created programs to help the country pull out of the Depression. Set up the FDIC which insured bank accounts up to $150,000. Glass-Stagall Act (1933).

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The New Deal: The Works Progress Administration

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  1. The New Deal: The Works Progress Administration

  2. The New Deal FDR created programs to help the country pull out of the Depression

  3. Set up the FDIC which insured bank accounts up to $150,000 Glass-Stagall Act (1933)

  4. Regulated stock market by requiring corporations to provide information on stock market offerings. Federal Securities (1933)

  5. Government paid farmers to leave areas unseeded Goal: Raise crop prices by lowering production Agricultural Adjustment Act

  6. Gave young men jobs building roads, planting trees….. Civilian Conservation Corps

  7. Provided money to states to create jobs building schools National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)

  8. Created jobs, education, counseling to young people National Youth AdministrationNYA

  9. Provided federal money to older Americans Social Security Act

  10. Provided jobs for 8 million unskilled workers (building roads, airports, jails, public buildings… Provided education & help to suffering Americans WPA

  11. The WPA “Dollar”

  12. END OF PART I

  13. Women & African Americans get important government jobs New Deal Opportunities

  14. Criticisms of the New Deal

  15. Federal Deficit & Unemployment

  16. When some of FDR’s New Deal programs are declared unconstitutional, FDR tries to increase the size of the Supreme Court FDR tries to “pack the courts”

  17. Some feared that the federal government was becoming too strong FDR did not always support Civil Rights Labor Unions were becoming very strong National debt was soaring Other Criticisms

  18. What do you think, was the New Deal Successful?

  19. WPA: The Federal Arts Project

  20. Artists of the WPA

  21. Kansas Cityfrom Politics, Farming, & the Law Thomas Hart Benton,1936

  22. The Annual Moveby Otis Dozier, 1936

  23. Construction of the Damby William Gropper

  24. Women of Flint, MIby Joseph Varak

  25. WPA: The Federal Music Project

  26. WPA: The Federal Theater Project

  27. The Cradle Will Rock, 1937 The theater, when it’s good, is always dangerous! Orson Welles & John Houseman

  28. WPA: The Federal Writers Project

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