Alphabet Soup

1. In 1933 when FDR took office, ______________ Americans were out of work • Civilian Conservation Corps (_________): hired unemployed single men _______________ • - For $____ a day, they planted trees, built bridges, worked on flood-control projects, parks • - Conserved ________________________________& gave jobs to young people • Works Progress Administration (________): 1935 – put the jobless to work • - Making ______________& building _____________, schools, parks, playgrounds, and airports • - Hired artists, photographers, actors, writers & composers to entertain & educate the public • - WPA writers collected information about American life, folklore & ________________ Alphabet Soup • Promoting Recovery: • The bring recovery, the President had to boost ____________________& ______________________ • Helping Industry • - _______________________ & _________________________ had been a major cause of the depression • - Low prices had caused businesses to fail & had caused high _____________________________rates • National Industrial Recovery Act (_____): each industry wrote a code, or a set of rules & standards for production, wages, prices & working conditions • - The NIRA tried to end price cutting & ____________________ • - To enforce the new codes, Congress set up the National Recovery Administration (__________) • - Companies that followed the NRA codes stamped _______________________on their products • - The gov’t encouraged people to business only with companies displaying the eagle • - This caused ________________________between companies • - The NIRA also set up the Public Works Administration (_____________): promoted recovery by hiring workers for thousands of public works projects • - Workers built dams, ______________, aircraft carriers for the navy • Helping Farmers • - On farms, overproduction remained the major problem • - Surpluses kept prices and farmers’ incomes ______________ • - ___________________: when company or farm produce more than they can sell

2. More help for farmers… • Agricultural Adjustment Act (___________): gov’t paid farmers NOT to grow certain crops • Roosevelt hoped that with smaller harvests, laws of _______________________would cause prices to rise • By limiting the amount of “available” options, people would pay more lump sums for ________________________ • The gov’t paid for farmers to plow surplus crops under the soil & destroy surplus cows & pigs • People thought this was crazy when people in cities were ___________________ • The plan was necessary to help farmers ______________________& keep them growing food • Rural Electrification Administration (_____): help people in rural areas get the same electrical service as people in urban areas • - Provided $$ to extend electric lines to ______________areas • - # of farms with electricity rose from ______________% • - Electricity helped to save many farms from ruin • *___________________– dairy farmers could keep milk & eggs longer • Preventing Another Depression • - During the Hundred Days, Congress passed laws regulating the stock market & banking system • _________________________Act: end the risky buying/ selling of stocks in the hope of making a quick profit • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (__________): Insured savings accounts in banks approved by the gov’t – if a bank insured by the FDIC failed, the gov’t would make sure depositors received their $$ • Tennessee Valley Authority (__________): set out to remake the Tennessee River Valley – a vast region that had suffered from terrible floods that had caused ________ of the areas farms & families to fail • -_____dams were built in ______ states – also produced cheap electric power • - The TVA deepened river channels for shipping • - Planted new forests to conserve __________ • - Developed new _______________to improve farmland • - Set up ______________& health centers • - Result: transformed a region of desperation & poverty into a prosperous & productive area