new deal 5 finger vote

1. FDR organized a
‘Brain Trust’,
or group of educated male
advisors, to help come up with
solutions to the depression

2. What did Hoover do???
• Smoot Hawley Tariff
• $500 million in aid to farm
cooperatives
• $116 million in construction
jobs (Hoover Dam)
• Increase military construction
jobs (ship building, aviation) by
$267 million
• Reconstruction Finance
Corporation; $2 billion in loans
• Loans to army Veterans
1. Essential
2. Helpful
3. Neutral
4. Not Helpful
5. Destructive

3. Which New Deal Program was
the most important?
5 Finger Vote

4. Civilian Conservation Corps
• Intended to provide jobs
and promote
environmental
conservation
• Employs 2 million
unmarried men
• Pays $30 a month +
food, clothing and
shelter… $25 of which
must be sent to family
1. Essential
2. Helpful
3. Neutral
4. Not Helpful
5. Destructive

5. Agricultural Adjustment Act
• Gov bought and
destroyed
thousands of baby
pigs
• Subsidy paid land-
owners NOT to
grow corn, wheat,
cotton, rice,
peanuts, tobacco,
or milk
1. Essential
2. Helpful
3. Neutral
4. Not Helpful
5. Destructive

6. Tennessee Valley Authority
• Intended to bring
electricity to rural
areas
• Intended to stop
disastrous floods
• Intended to limit
soil erosion
• Build dams on the
Tennessee River
1. Essential
2. Helpful
3. Neutral
4. Not Helpful
5. Destructive

7. National Recovery Act
• Protected unions and
collective bargaining
• Suggested several
work place
regulations (min
wage, max hours)
• Supported
monopolies
1. Essential
2. Helpful
3. Neutral
4. Not Helpful
5. Destructive

8. Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation
• Intended to halt
Bank Runs
• Insured bank
deposits up to
$5,000.00
1. Essential
2. Helpful
3. Neutral
4. Not Helpful
5. Destructive

9. Securities and Exchange
Commission
• Intended to
regulate corruption
in stock market
• Regulated the
purchasing of
stocks on margin
• Regulated “insider
trading”
1. Essential
2. Helpful
3. Neutral
4. Not Helpful
5. Destructive

10. Social Security Act
• Intended to provide aid
for disabled
• Intended to encourage
retirement and create
job opportunities for
younger Americans
• Established a pension
fund for elderly or
disabled workers and
their dependents
• Excludes agricultural
and domestic workers
1. Essential
2. Helpful
3. Neutral
4. Not Helpful
5. Destructive

11. Works Progress
Administration
• Intended to
resolve
unemployment
• Created jobs
building dams,
libraries, bridges
• Created jobs for
musicians, writers,
artists
1. Essential
2. Helpful
3. Neutral
4. Not Helpful
5. Destructive

12. Other New Deal Programs
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma02/v