Transcript Major New Deal Programs

The New Deal: Rural
Assistance and Work Projects
U.S. History
PHS 2012
Review
• What was the
most important
factor that led to
FDR’s election in
1932?
• The unpopularity
of Herbert Hoover
What was the first thing FDR did for the
economy during the “hundred days”
• Close the
banks
• What was
created by the
Glass-Steagall
Banking Act in
1933?
• The FDIC
Rural Assistance and Work
Projects
Agricultural Adjustment Act
• Helped farmers
increase the price of
their crops by lowering
production.
• Paid not to plant crops.
• Paid hog farmers to kill
6 million pigs
• Paid cotton farmers to
plow under 10 million
acres of their crop.
Civilian Conservation Corps
(CCC)
• Most popular program
of the New Deal
• Lasted until 1942.
• Put 3 million men
aged 18-25 to work.
• Built roads, planted
trees, built parks,
fixed soil erosion and
built flood control
projects
• Men paid $30 per
month.
• $25 sent directly
home.
• Provided free
uniform, food and
lodging in work
camps.
• 200 million trees were
planted on the Great
Plains to prevent
another Dust Bowl.
National Industrial Recovery
Act (NIRA)
• Created Civil Works
Administration.
• Created 4 million
jobs first year.
• Built 40,000
schools, half a
million miles of
roads, and paid the
salaries of 50,000
teachers.
National Recovery Administration
NRA
• Set codes and fair
practices for industries.
• Limited production, set
prices and standards.
• The most complex of
all programs.
• Struck down as
unconstitutional by
the Supreme Court
due to “Sick Chicken
Case”
Tennessee Valley Authority
(TVA)
• Fixed 5 dams in the
Tennessee River
Valley, and
construct 20 new
ones.
• Fixed flood control
problems and
created
hydroelectric
facilities.
CVP
• Central Valley
Project
• Provided water to
farms and
communities in
California’s
Central Valley