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The New Deal: Relief, Recovery, and Reform

Differentiate between... Relief:

Recovery:

Reform:

Agricultural Adjustment Act Fair Labor Standards Act Homeowners’ Loan Corporation Tennessee Valley Act Civilian Conservation Corps Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (Glass-Steagall Banking Act) Public Works Administration Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act) Civilian Works Administration Federal Emergency Relief Administration Securities and Exchange Commission Works Progress Administration Emergency Banking Relief Act Federal Housing Act Social Security Act National Youth Administration National Industrial Recovery Act

Directions: Match all of the (above) New Deal programs with its correct description. Then, check each program as Relief, Recovery, or Reform.

Complete the following chart. Program Date Purpose (Description) Relief Recovery Reform First Hundred Days March 9 Allowed the govt. to examine all banks and allow those that 1933 were financially sound to reopen.

March 31, Provided jobs and relocation for approximately 250,000 1933 young men (18-25) from cities to rural areas to perform various reforestation and conservation tasks such as building parks, planting trees, building small dams, draining swamps, and assisting in flood control. May 12, Gave direct relief in the form of money ($3 billion) to states 1933 and localities for distribution to the unemployed. * May 12, Paid farmers to reduce the amount of crops harvested, 1933 destroyed livestock, and to not farm in order to reduce surplus of goods and raise prices due to the scarcity of the products & provide educational programs to teach methods of preventing soil erosion. May 18, Created jobs, brought electricity to rural areas that could not 1933 afford electric power lines, improved navigation, and control floods; served as one of the few public competition with private power industries. June 13, Loaned money (over 1 mil. between 1933 & 1935) to 1933 homeowners to help them refinance their mortgages and avoid losing their property through bank foreclosures.

June 16, Made 3.3 bil in loans to private industries to build public 1933 works such as dams, ports, bridges, sewage plants, hospitals, government buildings, and airports.

June 16, Insured savings of bank depositors and monitored soundness 1933 of insured banking institutions. At the time, bank deposits were insured up to 5,000.

* June, 1933 Established codes of fair practice for individual industries and for promoting industrial growth. Created the NRA which to set products to ensure fair competition.

November Provided public work jobs (at $15 per week to four million 9, 1933 workers) to states to employ young men to build 225,000 miles of roads, 30,000 schools, and 3,700 playing fields.

June 6, Regulated the stock and bond trading; regulated exchanges 1934 where stocks and bonds are sold and legislated requirements for disclosure of fair stock information & restricting margin buying. Second Hundred Day June 28, Created a federal agency to provide bank loans to help repair, 1934 rebuild, and insure older homes; increases the opportunity to acquire a mortgage for millions of people that were unable to do so under stricter bank requirements. 1935 Employed over 8.5 mil. workers for people to do artistic, literary, and research projects by setting aside $300 million to create Federal Project Number One

1935 Provided job training and work for people ages 16-25; provided part-time jobs for over 2 mil. college and high school students

July 5, Created the NLRB and reaffirmed labor’s rights to bargain for 1935 wages, hours, and working conditions, the right to strike, and the right of arbitration for grievances.

August Provided benefits for unemployed, aged, dependent, and 14, 1935 handicapped persons.

June 25, Established a minimum wage of 40 cents per hour and a 1938 maximum work week of 40 hours. Prohibited children under the age of 16 from working in factories.

In what ways did the passage of New Deal legislation significantly change the role of the federal government long term?