Rooservelt and the great depression
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- ROOSEVELT AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION
- 3 R's
- RECOVER- ensure that the economy was boosted so people can be given jobs
- REFORM- ensure there is a welfare provision in the future to help unemployed, old, sick, disabled andaestitute
- RELIEF- assist in removal of poverty, provide food for the starving and invest in preventing people from losing their homes
- The Alphabet Agencies
- AGRICULTURAL ADJUSTMENT ACT- increased farm prices and farmers income, production level dropped and farmers payed to grow less
- CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS- created jobs for men aged 18-25, recived food and money
- Aimed to solve agricultural, civilian and banking problems
- Key activities and organisations passed through in the Hundred Days
- The Hundred Days
- March 9th to June 16th 1933
- government programmes which aimed to restore the shattered economy
- more than 200 banks were closed for 10 days as money was safer in banks than being withdrawn
- He restored confidence in banking
- The Second New Deal
- wide programme of reform which targeted farmers, workers, the poor and unemployed
- THE WORK PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION (WAP)- building projects such as schools and hospitals this created more jobs
- SUCESSES
- peoples faith in government was restored
- established US banking system and cut number of business failures
- Pension of elderly& widows, sick and disabled were helped
- FAILURES
- federal government and presidency was given too much power
- most were only short-term solutions so didn't solve underlying economic problems
- many new deal agencies discriminated against Back Americans
- NEW DEAL DOESN'T SOLVE EVERYONES PROBLEMS, SOME DO NOT BENEFIT
- 3 R's
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