A2 History - Sucesses and failures of the New Deal
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- Successes and Failures of the New Deal
- Welfare
- Pensions
- Could claim $10 to $85
- "The cornerstone of my administration"
- Not all people could claim
- Domestic servants couldn't claim
- Got out what you put in
- Domestic servants couldn't claim
- Could claim $10 to $85
- Wagner Act
- Trade union membership
- Trebbled
- More strikes for Roosevelt
- Trade union membership
- No child labour
- Minimum wage introduced
- NRA rules
- 556
- Impossible to keep to
- Nothing went far enough
- "incomplete"
- Nothing like British welfare system
- 1st attempt at a welfare state
- Huge break from US traditions
- ADC
- Unemployment benefit
- Only for 16 weeks
- Pensions
- Agriculture
- 75% of farms electrified from 2%
- Farm prices stabilised
- After 60% drop during the Depression
- Didn't really help small farmers or sharecroppers
- Wasteful
- 6 million piglets killed under AAA
- FCA prevented foreclosures
- To end overproduction
- Commercial farmers did very well
- Emergency relief
- FERA
- Soup kitchens
- Clothing banks
- Shameful
- Few women collected ADC
- Stopped deaths from hunger
- FERA
- Army
- Plutonium discovered
- Army cut by 25%
- Discipline through the CCC
- Infrastructure
- WPA
- 13,000 schools
- Still in tact today
- 20 dams under TVA
- 50 airports
- Including La Guardia airport
- Electrification of railways
- 50,000 miles of road
- 13,000 schools
- Jobs in the construction industry
- CCC planted 1.3 billion trees
- WPA
- Morale
- Boondoggles from the PWA
- History of the safety pin
- Dorothea Lange
- $4.6 million spent helping unemployed artists
- Hope restored in Roosevelt
- Have a job - feels like you're contributing to the economy
- Inspired a demoralised people
- Boondoggles from the PWA
- Wasteful
- WPA
- Some general points
- 100,000 improved their literacy rates under the CCC
- To socialist
- Federal government rules under the TVA
- 556 rules of the NRA
- Provoked future oppostion
- Unemployment
- Still 9 million unemployed
- Reduced significantly
- From 12-13 million in 1933
- American Labour Association estimated 17 million
- WPA theatre project employed 11,000 performers
- WPA employs 8 million overall
- CCC cycle
- Only solved in 1943 with WWII
- WPA became known as "We Piddle Around"
- Eviciton of sharecroppers by rich landowners
- Young men (age 18-25) int he CCC
- CCC extended for another 7 years in 1935 as it was so successful
- Banking system
- Moley "Saved capitalism in 8 days"
- Confidence restored
- $1 billion returned in bank deposits by April 1933
- 40 were closing per day pre-FDR, and 0 closed each day in 1936
- 1st time in 60 years
- Now paid 50-60% on the margin
- Redistribution of income
- Promise to "Help the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid"
- Got slightly bettern
- People had a bit more money now
- Not solved
- The poor remained poor
- FERA paid only $25 a month to families that needed $100
- The fact that they got the $25 was still good though
- FERA paid only $25 a month to families that needed $100
- The poor remained poor
- Women
- Few claimed ADC
- Few women in CCC
- 8000 women and 3 million men
- Learn to type oppertunities under FERA
- Housing
- 180,000 built
- This was not enough
- HOLC helped people afford their morgages
- Still, less than 25% of urban families were in a position to afford mortgages
- 180,000 built
- Welfare
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