Great Depression and New Deal

This act provided aid to elderly, and, through the states, to individuals temporarily unemployed, disability insurance, and child welfare benefits

• Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• Social Security Act

• National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)

This act raised agricultural prices by paying farmers to reduce the amount of crops and animals sold on the market

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

• Works Progress Administration (WPA)

This program employed young, single men 18-25 years to work on environmental projects such as developing parks, planting trees, and helping in soil erosion.

• Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• Works Progress Administration ( WPA)

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

This program was set up to assure the public that the funds they deposited in member banks would be insured by the federal government if the bank failed. The original amount secured was $2,500.

• National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)

• Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

• Social Security Act

Period in 1933 during which FDR passed many programs through congress

• The New Deal
• Hundred days
• Congress of Industrial Organizations
• First year

How did Roosevelt reassure the public that the banks were safe again?

• He spoke on the radio--Fireside Chats

• He appeared on television

• He wrote articles for the newspaper

Which New Deal program was chiefly designed to correct abuses in the stock market?

• Civilian Conservation Corps
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Securities and Exchange Commission
• National Recovery Administration

A major reason for creating the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1933 was to-

• Provide health care benefits to southerners
• Encourage African-Americans to settle in the valley
• Improve economic conditions in a poor rural region
• Evacuate farmers from the impoverished region

During the New Deal, how did the government attempt to improve conditions for farmers?

• By ending the practice of sharecropping
• By raising tariffs on farm imports
• By paying farmers to grow fewer crops
• By training farmers for jobs in a new field

One difference between the administrations of President Roosevelt and President Hoover was that Roosevelt was-

• more willing to use government intervention to solve economic problems
• unwilling to allow government agencies to establish jobs
• able to ignore economic issues for most of his first term in office
• opposed to any type of government regulation of financial institutions