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- Civilan onservation Corps
- Gave young people jobs beneficial to public
- Ex. libraries, tree planting (small scale)
- Work
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1) Federal Emergency Relief Act
2) Relief
3) Gave money to states for to deal with state problems
4) Led by Harry Hopkins (brain trust) |
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1) Works Progress Administration
2) Work
3) About 2 mil jobs including music, murals, and public beautification
4) Led by Harry Hopkins |
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1) National Recover Administration
2) Reform (controversial b/e of seal)
3) Set minimum wage, ended child labor, set prices and codes
4) blue eagle "we do are part" |
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1) National Industrial Recovery Act
2) Recovery
3) Self regulation in business
4) From NRA |
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1) Public Works Administration
2) CCC/WPA but big scale
3) Ex. Lincoln Tunnel, Kentucky Fort Knox
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1) Agricultural Adjustment Act
2) $ for destruction of crops (S&D)
3) Subsidies to make up for uncultivated land set aside for federal use if prices went down too much
4) Declared unconstitutional in US vs. Butler (1936)
5) Relief, recovery |
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1) Rural Electrification Act
2) brought electricity to countryside (especially middle USA)
3) Reform |
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1) Tenesse Valley Authority= reform, relief, & recovery
2) Helped control flooding around Ten. River
3) Dams created electricity
4) Elec. supplied by gov't for the first time, many elec. co's thought it was communistic
5) 1937= harsh spring rains but dams worked and no flooding occurred. |
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1) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
2) Reform
3) Insured bank deposits & approved banks
4) Still around today |
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1) Social Security Act
2) Taxed employers/ees funded monthly pension
3) Employer only tax funded unemployment+insurance
4) Also took care of: unemployed, disabled, elderly poor and children with no parents, or with parents who weren't able to support them |
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