Restoring Confidence

What is significant about Roosevelt’s first 100 days in office?

Restoring Confidence

What is significant about Roosevelt’s first 100 days in office?

•Time at the beginning of FDR’s presidency where he pushed many programs through congress to provide relief, create jobs and stimulate economic recovery.

Restoring ConfidenceWhat is significant about Roosevelt’s first 100 days in office?

•Time at the beginning of FDR’s presidency where he pushed many programs through congress to provide relief, create jobs and stimulate economic recovery.

•Why did Roosevelt close the banks?

Restoring ConfidenceWhat is significant about Roosevelt’s first 100 days in office?

•Time at the beginning of FDR’s presidency where he pushed many programs through congress to provide relief, create jobs and stimulate economic recovery.

•Why did Roosevelt close the banks?

•To organize the banks and give him a chance to see how healthy the bank was

Restoring Confidence

What is significant about Roosevelt’s first 100 days in office?

•Time at the beginning of FDR’s presidency where he pushed many programs through congress to provide relief, create jobs and stimulate economic recovery.

•Why did Roosevelt close the banks?

•To organize the banks and give him a chance to see how healthy the bank was

•What is the FDIC?

Restoring Confidence

What is significant about Roosevelt’s first 100 days in office?

•Time at the beginning of FDR’s presidency where he pushed many programs through congress to provide relief, create jobs and stimulate economic recovery.

•Why did Roosevelt close the banks?

•To organize the banks and give him a chance to see how healthy the bank was

•What is the FDIC?

•Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation – insured bank deposits up to $5,000

Restoring Confidence

What is significant about Roosevelt’s first 100 days in office?

•Time at the beginning of FDR’s presidency where he pushed many programs through congress to provide relief, create jobs and stimulate economic recovery.

•Why did Roosevelt close the banks?

•To organize the banks and give him a chance to see how healthy the bank was

•What is the FDIC?

•Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation – insured bank deposits up to $5,000

•What is the SEC?

Restoring Confidence

What is significant about Roosevelt’s first 100 days in office?

•Time at the beginning of FDR’s presidency where he pushed many programs through congress to provide relief, create jobs and stimulate economic recovery.

•Why did Roosevelt close the banks?

•To organize the banks and give him a chance to see how healthy the bank was

•What is the FDIC?

•Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation – insured bank deposits up to $5,000

•What is the SEC? Security Exchange Commission – regulated the stock market

Restoring Confidence

What is significant about Roosevelt’s first 100 days in office?

•Time at the beginning of FDR’s presidency where he pushed many programs through congress to provide relief, create jobs and stimulate economic recovery.

•Why did Roosevelt close the banks?

•To organize the banks and give him a chance to see how healthy the bank was

•What is the FDIC?

•Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation – insured bank deposits up to $5,000

•What is the SEC? Security Exchange Commission – regulated the stock market

•What were these measures designed to do and did they accomplish their goal? Explain.

Restoring Confidence

What is significant about Roosevelt’s first 100 days in office?

•Time at the beginning of FDR’s presidency where he pushed many programs through congress to provide relief, create jobs and stimulate economic recovery.

•Why did Roosevelt close the banks?

•To organize the banks and give him a chance to see how healthy the bank was

•What is the FDIC?

•Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation – insured bank deposits up to $5,000

•What is the SEC? Security Exchange Commission – regulated the stock market

•What were these measures designed to do and did they accomplish their goal? Explain.

•They were designed to restore the public’s confidence in the banks and other financial institutions

Creating Jobs

FERA –

Creating Jobs

FERA – Federal Emergency Relief Act – Sent funds to depleted local relief agencies

Creating Jobs

FERA – Federal Emergency Relief Act – Sent funds to depleted local relief agencies

What are Public Works Programs designed to do?

Creating Jobs

FERA – Federal Emergency Relief Act – Sent funds to depleted local relief agencies

What are Public Works Programs designed to do?

- Government funded projects to build public facilities

Creating Jobs

FERA – Federal Emergency Relief Act – Sent funds to depleted local relief agencies

What are Public Works Programs designed to do?

-Government funded projects to build public facilities

CWA –

Creating Jobs

FERA – Federal Emergency Relief Act – Sent funds to depleted local relief agencies

What are Public Works Programs designed to do?

-Government funded projects to build public facilities

CWA – Civil Works Administration – gave the unemployed jobs building or improving roads, parks, airports, and other facilities

Creating Jobs

FERA – Federal Emergency Relief Act – Sent funds to depleted local relief agencies

What are Public Works Programs designed to do?

-Government funded projects to build public facilities CWA – Civil Works Administration – gave the unemployed jobs building or improving roads, parks, airports, and other facilities

CCC –

Creating Jobs

FERA – Federal Emergency Relief Act – Sent funds to depleted local relief agencies

What are Public Works Programs designed to do?

-Government funded projects to build public facilities CWA – Civil Works Administration – gave the unemployed jobs building or improving roads, parks, airports, and other facilities

CCC – Civilian Conservation Corps – put 2.5 million unmarried male workers into forest, beach and park maintenance and restoration projects

Creating Jobs

FERA – Federal Emergency Relief Act – Sent funds to depleted local relief agencies

What are Public Works Programs designed to do?

-Government funded projects to build public facilities CWA – Civil Works Administration – gave the unemployed jobs building or improving roads, parks, airports, and other facilities

CCC – Civilian Conservation Corps – put 2.5 million unmarried male workers into forest, beach and park maintenance and restoration projects

Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 –

Creating Jobs

FERA – Federal Emergency Relief Act – Sent funds to depleted local relief agencies

What are Public Works Programs designed to do?

-Government funded projects to build public facilities CWA – Civil Works Administration – gave the unemployed jobs building or improving roads, parks, airports, and other facilities

CCC – Civilian Conservation Corps – put 2.5 million unmarried male workers into forest, beach and park maintenance and restoration projects

Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 – ended the sale of tribal lands and restored ownership of unallocated lands to Native American groups

Helping Business

NIRA –

Helping Business

NIRA – National Industrial Recovery Act – bolster prices of business and industry to keep them stable

Helping Business

NIRA – National Industrial Recovery Act – bolster prices of business and industry to keep them stable

NRA -

Helping Business

NIRA – National Industrial Recovery Act – bolster prices of business and industry to keep them stable

NRA - National Recovery Administration – set out to balance the unstable economy through extensive planning

Helping Business

NIRA – National Industrial Recovery Act – bolster prices of business and industry to keep them stable

NRA - National Recovery Administration – set out to balance the unstable economy through extensive planning

PWA –

Helping Business

NIRA – National Industrial Recovery Act – bolster prices of business and industry to keep them stable

NRA - National Recovery Administration – set out to balance the unstable economy through extensive planning

PWA – Public Works Administration – built many public works projects like dams to give people jobs

Saving Homes and Farms

HOLC –

Saving Homes and Farms

HOLC – Home Owners’ Loan Corporation – Refinanced mortgages of middle-income homeowners

Saving Homes and FarmsHOLC – Home Owners’ Loan Corporation – Refinanced mortgages of middle-income homeowners

AAA –

Saving Homes and FarmsHOLC – Home Owners’ Loan Corporation – Refinanced mortgages of middle-income homeowners

AAA – Agricultural Adjustment Administration – paid farmers not to raise certain crops and animals in hopes that lower production would boost the prices on agricultural products

Saving Homes and FarmsHOLC – Home Owners’ Loan Corporation – Refinanced mortgages of middle-income homeowners

AAA – Agricultural Adjustment Administration – paid farmers not to raise certain crops and animals in hopes that lower production would boost the prices on agricultural products

TVA –

Saving Homes and FarmsHOLC – Home Owners’ Loan Corporation – Refinanced mortgages of middle-income homeowners

AAA – Agricultural Adjustment Administration – paid farmers not to raise certain crops and animals in hopes that lower production would boost the prices on agricultural products

TVA – Tennessee Valley Authority – helped farmers and created jobs in the Tennessee Valley (the least modernized region in the U.S.)

Saving Homes and FarmsHOLC – Home Owners’ Loan Corporation – Refinanced mortgages of middle-income homeowners

AAA – Agricultural Adjustment Administration – paid farmers not to raise certain crops and animals in hopes that lower production would boost the prices on agricultural products

TVA – Tennessee Valley Authority – helped farmers and created jobs in the Tennessee Valley (the least modernized region in the U.S.)

How affective was the New Deal? Explain.

Saving Homes and FarmsHOLC – Home Owners’ Loan Corporation – Refinanced mortgages of middle-income homeowners

AAA – Agricultural Adjustment Administration – paid farmers not to raise certain crops and animals in hopes that lower production would boost the prices on agricultural products

TVA – Tennessee Valley Authority – helped farmers and created jobs in the Tennessee Valley (the least modernized region in the U.S.)

How affective was the New Deal? Explain.

•- It helped a little but in the long run it was unable to pull the U.S. out of the Depression

The Second New Deal

New Agencies

WPA –

The Second New Deal

New Agencies

WPA – Works progress Administration – provided jobs for people. It constructed and improved many public areas

The Second New Deal

New AgenciesWPA – Works progress Administration – provided jobs for people. It constructed and improved many public areas

FSA –

The Second New Deal

New AgenciesWPA – Works progress Administration – provided jobs for people. It constructed and improved many public areas

FSA – Farm Security Administration – loaned money to farmers and set up camps for migrant workers

The Second New Deal

New AgenciesWPA – Works progress Administration – provided jobs for people. It constructed and improved many public areas

FSA – Farm Security Administration – loaned money to farmers and set up camps for migrant workers

REA –

The Second New Deal

New AgenciesWPA – Works progress Administration – provided jobs for people. It constructed and improved many public areas

FSA – Farm Security Administration – loaned money to farmers and set up camps for migrant workers

REA – Rural Electrification Administration – offered loans to electric companies and farm cooperatives for building power plants and extending power lines, as well as to farmers and other rural residents to wire their homes and barns

The Second New Deal

New AgenciesWPA – Works progress Administration – provided jobs for people. It constructed and improved many public areas

FSA – Farm Security Administration – loaned money to farmers and set up camps for migrant workers

REA – Rural Electrification Administration – offered loans to electric companies and farm cooperatives for building power plants and extending power lines, as well as to farmers and other rural residents to wire their homes and barns

Wagner Act –

The Second New Deal

New AgenciesWPA – Works progress Administration – provided jobs for people. It constructed and improved many public areas

FSA – Farm Security Administration – loaned money to farmers and set up camps for migrant workers

REA – Rural Electrification Administration – offered loans to electric companies and farm cooperatives for building power plants and extending power lines, as well as to farmers and other rural residents to wire their homes and barns

Wagner Act – legalized closed shops (only union members can work there), and allowed for collective bargaining by unions. It also outlawed spying on the unions and blacklisting of union members

The Second New Deal

New AgenciesWPA – Works progress Administration – provided jobs for people. It constructed and improved many public areas

FSA – Farm Security Administration – loaned money to farmers and set up camps for migrant workers

REA – Rural Electrification Administration – offered loans to electric companies and farm cooperatives for building power plants and extending power lines, as well as to farmers and other rural residents to wire their homes and barns

Wagner Act – legalized closed shops (only union members can work there), and allowed for collective bargaining by unions. It also outlawed spying on the unions and blacklisting of union members

NLRB –

The Second New Deal

New AgenciesWPA – Works progress Administration – provided jobs for people. It constructed and improved many public areas

FSA – Farm Security Administration – loaned money to farmers and set up camps for migrant workers

REA – Rural Electrification Administration – offered loans to electric companies and farm cooperatives for building power plants and extending power lines, as well as to farmers and other rural residents to wire their homes and barns

Wagner Act – legalized closed shops (only union members can work there), and allowed for collective bargaining by unions. It also outlawed spying on the unions and blacklisting of union members

NLRB – National Labor Relations Board – set up by the Wagner Act, its job was to enforce the Wagner Act

The Second New Deal

New AgenciesWPA – Works progress Administration – provided jobs for people. It constructed and improved many public areas

FSA – Farm Security Administration – loaned money to farmers and set up camps for migrant workers

REA – Rural Electrification Administration – offered loans to electric companies and farm cooperatives for building power plants and extending power lines, as well as to farmers and other rural residents to wire their homes and barns

Wagner Act – legalized closed shops (only union members can work there), and allowed for collective bargaining by unions. It also outlawed spying on the unions and blacklisting of union members

NLRB – National Labor Relations Board – set up by the Wagner Act, its job was to enforce the Wagner Act

Social Security Act –

The Second New Deal

New AgenciesWPA – Works progress Administration – provided jobs for people. It constructed and improved many public areas

FSA – Farm Security Administration – loaned money to farmers and set up camps for migrant workers

REA – Rural Electrification Administration – offered loans to electric companies and farm cooperatives for building power plants and extending power lines, as well as to farmers and other rural residents to wire their homes and barns

Wagner Act – legalized closed shops (only union members can work there), and allowed for collective bargaining by unions. It also outlawed spying on the unions and blacklisting of union members

NLRB – National Labor Relations Board – set up by the Wagner Act, its job was to enforce the Wagner Act

Social Security Act – system that provided old age pensions for workers; and aid for dependent mothers and children, the blind and the physically disabled