New Deal Roosevelt

1. The new deal
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2. THE NEW DEAL
 When Franklin Delano Roosevelt became president (1933), America
was in an economic turmoil, the Great Depression.
 The New Deal was a series of programs and projects instituted during
the Great Depression that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans.
 The programs and projects included stabilizing the banks and
stimulating the economy, creating jobs and raising wages, investing in
public works and modernizing lagging regions, and giving ordinary
Americans a new sense of security and hope.

3. THE NEW DEAL MAIN PURPOSE:
THE THREE R's
 RELIEF – DIRECTLY HELPING THE
IMPOVERISHED
 RECOVER –PROMOTING ECONOMIC
GROWTH TO GET IT MOVING ONCE MORE.
 REFORM- GOVERNMENT POLICIES TO
PREVENT ANOTHER ECONOMIC COLLAPSE

4. ESSENTIAL QUESTION
-In what ways did President
Franklin Roosevelt's "NEW DEAL"
provide relief, recovery, and
reform during the GREAT
DEPRESSION ?

5. AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT (AAA)
 The AAA was signed into law in 1933 with the
principle idea that the U.S. government should
subsidizeAmerican farmers.
 It sought to raise crop prices by
lowering productionwhich the government
achieved by paying farmers to leave a certain
amount of land unseeded.
 Also, a tax was placed on the processors of
the food industrywhich would be used to give
to the farmers.
 The government provided subsidies for limits
on the production ofcorn, wheat, pork, and
tobacco.

6. NATIONALRECOVERYACT (NRA)
 (NIRA) was one of the most importantand daring measures of
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal.
 It was enacted during the famous First Hundred Days of his first
term in office and was the centerpiece of his initial efforts to
reverse the economic collapse of the Great Depression.
 It attempted to makestructuralchanges in the industrialsector of
the economy and to alleviate unemploymentwith a public works
program
 It established standardsfor working hours and banned
child labor
 Guaranteed workers rights to unionizeand bargaincollectively.
 Established codes of fair business practices.
 Set prices of products toensurefair competition.

7. CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS (CCC)
 the CCC recruit unemployed young men from
urban areas to perform conservation work
throughout the nation’s forests, parks, and fields.
 It unleashed the talents of landscape architects to
establish the infrastructure of the state and
national park systems.
 The program’s goal was to conserve the country’s
natural resources while providing jobs for young
men.

8. SOCIAL SECURITY ACT (SSA)
 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Bill into law
on August 14, 1935.
 The Social Security Act established two types of provisions for old-age
security
 Firstly, the Federal aid to the States to enable them to provide cash
pensions to their needy aged. It was designed to provide immediate
assistanceto destituteaged individuals.
 Secondly, it provided a system of Federal old-age benefits for retired
workers which was a preventive measureintended to reducethe extent
of futuredependency among theaged and to assure workers that their
years of employment entitled them to a life income.
 Established 13 weeks unemployment insurance.
 Also, distributed funds for the disabled and single parent families.

9. Tennessee
Valley
Authority (TVA)
Helped build dams and
other projects along the
Tennessee River and its
tributaries.
These dams provided
more stable irrigation and
cheap hydroelectricpower.

10. WORK PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION (WPA)
 WPA was an ambitious employment and
infrastructureprogram.
 It was best known for its public works projects but it
also sponsored projects in the arts – (the agency
employed tens of thousands of actors, musicians,
writers and other artists).
 employed mostly unskilled men to carry out public
works infrastructureprojects.
 Throughtheprogram more than 4,000 new school
buildings, erected 130 new hospitals, laid roughly
9,000 miles of storm drains and sanitary sewer lines,
built 29,000new bridges, constructed 150 new
airfields, paved or repaired 280,000miles of roads
and planted 24 million trees

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