Hundred Days Legislation 9th March-16th June 1933
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- Hundred Days Legislation 9th March-16th June 1933
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
- Poverty and Unemployment
- 500 million dollars allocated to help relieve suffering of poor (food, clothing etc.)
- Seed and equipment for farmers
- Schemes to create jobs
- Poverty and Unemployment
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- Unemployment among young men
- Men aged 18-25 given six months of work
- had to send most of their pay homes to pay parents/wives
- About 300,000 thousand joined in 1933 - by 1940 there were 2 million
- When working, stayed in camps nearby
- Unemployment among young men
- Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Became Works Progress Administration in 1935
- Unemployment
- Paid for public works projects such as schools, roads and hospitals
- Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
- Rural Poverty, unemployment and low crop prices
- Advised farmers on marketing and farming techniques
- Helped solve problem of overproduction by government buying up produce
- Farmers became more organised but wealthy farmers gained the most
- Rural Poverty, unemployment and low crop prices
- National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
- General economic condition of USA
- Set up National Recovery Administration (NRA)
- Set standards on working practices such as hours and child labour - helped create more jobs
- Employers in scheme displayed eagle symbol of government approval and Government encouraged people to use these firms
- Over 2 million employers joined the scheme
- Set up National Recovery Administration (NRA)
- General economic condition of USA
- Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
- Agricultural overproduction and regular flood had ruined livelihoods of farm workers in Tennessee Valley.
- No alternative jobs in industry and area covered six states and was too big for any one state to deal with
- Huge public work projects dams, irrigation, canals and water transport
- Hydroelectric power created thousands of jobs
- Farmers given loans and training in soil conservation
- New housing built
- Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
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